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The Felicities of Good Spirits is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, barren, inhospitable landscape, and absence of drug laws. The hard-working, democratic population of 967 million Good Spiritsians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The relatively small, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Unoccupied Crypts. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.7%.

The strong Good Spiritsian economy, worth 43.9 trillion ectoplasms a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 45,356 ectoplasms, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 298,537 per year while the poor average 2,680, a ratio of 111 to 1.

Religious epiphanies are often cited as a reason for high school drop-outs, pieces of iron pyrite are believed to be worth their weight in gold, frequent broken zippers have resulted in safety pins making a fashion comeback, and all government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of Unoccupied Crypts. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Good Spirits's national animal is the apparition, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Good Spirits is ranked 14,569^th in the world and 2^nd in The Mausoleum for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 5,415.67 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.