The Republic of Spooks Basement is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Eldagon with a fair hand, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, public floggings, and frequent executions. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 8.953 billion Basementians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hanira. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Spook's economy, worth a remarkable 2,401 trillion Rocks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 268,275 Rocks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Theatre audiences often need a telescope to see the stage, the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced, flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor, and a certain animated paperclip is enjoying his sunset years at the government's expense. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Spooks Basement's national animal is the Rat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

Spooks Basement is ranked 6,039^th in the world and 3^rd in Atrax for Most Developed, scoring 93.31 on the Human Development Index.