The Grand Duchy of Spooks Basement is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Manumarot with a fair hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and flagrant waste-dumping. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 9.285 billion Basementians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hanira. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Spook's economy, worth a remarkable 2,522 trillion Rocks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an amazing 271,704 Rocks, with the richest citizens earning 6.3 times as much as the poorest.

Dozens of additional foreign policy specialists have been sent to the country's WA Mission, millionaires are surprised to find they are eligible for government handouts, the government thinks Basementians can achieve social cohesion by drinking soda together, and demand for gourmet white truffles is on the rise. 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 16,334^th in the world and 5^th in Atrax for Highest Poor Incomes, with 100,480.93 Standard Monetary Units.