The Ghost of Spartzerium is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, ban on automobiles, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 19.513 billion Spartzerians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Spartz City. The average income tax rate is 82.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Spartzerian economy, worth 912 trillion spartzers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 46,776 spartzers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby, hunters have been known to lose limbs while attempting to 'play tag' with their prey, and the government funds private schools for intellectually gifted children. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spartzerium's national animal is the Spartzy, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is a major religion.

Spartzerium is ranked 49,415^th in the world and 2,639^th in Lazarus for Highest Food Quality, scoring 33.76 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.