The Commonwealth of Spectral Isles is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its public floggings, parental licensing program, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, devout population of 581 million Spectral Islesians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 66.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Spectral Islesian economy, worth 21.6 trillion Island Talers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 37,177 Island Talers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Thrift shops are closing their doors, polygraphs are relegated to the dungeon exhibit in castle museums, a suspicious number of John Smiths are known to donate to Spectral Islesian politicians, and it can be a real jungle in a modern courtroom. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spectral Isles's national animal is the Island Doggo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Spectral Isles is ranked 25,319^th in the world and 2^nd in Seas for Nicest Citizens, with 21.25 average smiles per day.