The Haunted Junkyard of Ghost Truck is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 20.433 billion human slaves 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 enormous, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Route 666. The average income tax rate is 73.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong demonic vehicular economy, worth a remarkable 1,200 trillion dollars 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 Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Tourism, and Information Technology. Average income is 58,762 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Most people suffer from some form of hearing loss, programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, tourists flock to see the giant stone carvings of historical leaders at Mount Rushless, and traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ghost Truck's national animal is the Gremlin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ghost Truck is ranked 86,949^th in the world and 17^th in The Trunk of a Pontiac Tempest for Most Beautiful Environments, with 584.35 pounds of wildlife per square mile.