The Emirate of Ghost Case is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its compulsory military service and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 22.572 billion Ghost Caseans 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 large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Social Policy. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 33.4%.

The very strong Ghost Casean economy, worth 738 trillion kamers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Average income is 32,710 kamers, with the richest citizens earning 7.5 times as much as the poorest.

TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, military spending is on the increase, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, and young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Ghost Case's national animal is the goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ghost Case is ranked 254,816^th in the world and 1^st in Lazarus Army for Lowest Crime Rates, with 49.51 law-abiding acts per hour.