The Psycho Ghosts of Spooky18 is a titanic, efficient nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed population of 16.598 billion Spooky18ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 51.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Spooky18ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,995 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Soda Sales, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 120,234 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

The new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?", Information Technology facilities are being turned into leopard habitats, children's TV shows are having a gay old time, and classes are regularly interrupted by drunken children. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spooky18's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Spooky18 is ranked 39,662^nd in the world and 7^th in Pallaith for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 58,554.39 Standard Monetary Units.