The Dominion of Deathly Apparitions is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Charon the Corrupt with an iron fist, and renowned for its national health service, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 22.501 billion Deathly Apparitionsians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tartarus. The average income tax rate is 96.8%.

The enormous but sluggish Deathly Apparitionsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,035 trillion Souls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 46,039 Souls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Deathly Apparitionsian Intelligence Agency relies on internet search engines to know what is happening overseas, both diets and economic output are growing leaner with recent restrictions to free trade, conspiracy theorists allege that the government is spying on them through their carbon monoxide detectors, and vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Deathly Apparitions's national animal is the Zombie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Deathly Apparitions is ranked 5,041^st in the world and 119^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 116.31 law-abiding acts per hour.