The Unidentifiable Vessel of Ghost Ship is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Davy Jones with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 12.325 billion Ghost Shipians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tortuga. The average income tax rate is 21.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Ghost Shipian economy, worth a remarkable 1,286 trillion doubloons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 104,348 doubloons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Sports fans complain that cricket tests now last an unbearable ten days, excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions, replacement organs are grown in vats, and hockey players who drop their gloves discard them on abandoned baseball mitts. Crime is totally unknown. Ghost Ship's national animal is the seal, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Ghostism.

Ghost Ship is ranked 47,428^th in the world and 1^st in Ship Graveyard for Smartest Citizens, with 45.05 quips per hour.