The Fantastic Leaping of DeSpencers Ghost is a gargantuan, genial nation, renowned for its daily referendums, compulsory vegetarianism, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 43.316 billion DeSpencers Ghostians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of DeSpencer. The average income tax rate is 99.0%.

The thriving DeSpencers Ghostian economy, worth a remarkable 8,345 trillion dreams a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 192,676 dreams, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People have become comfortably numb, the entire entry for DeSpencers Ghost in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless', pet loving officers arrest citizens who don't give their dogs enough biscuits, and 4-year-olds are often found reminiscing about the 'good old days'. Crime is totally unknown. DeSpencers Ghost's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

DeSpencers Ghost is ranked 1,747^th in the world and 1^st in Universal Dream Network for Safest, scoring 150.91 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.