The Duds 🐓 RepubliC of Changing Flags is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Dottie Princess of Nil with an iron fist, and renowned for its infamous sell-swords, sprawling nuclear power plants, and fear of technology. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 21.01 billion Changelings are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Windblows. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 81.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Changlinglish economy, worth a remarkable 2,904 trillion Ducats a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 138,266 Ducats, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 615,300 per year while the poor average 19,337, a ratio of 31.8 to 1.

Anti-riot police are dispatched whenever two elderly ladies gather to complain that prices have increased, the media have begun calling the government treasury "Dottie Princess of Nil's stash", Goldilocks has found a lucrative career as a zoning consultant, and visitors to Changing Flags are microchipped and must be escorted by a Changlinglish soldier - even to the bathroom. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Changing Flags's national animal is the Goat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Lookathatian Synod Of True True Faith.

Changing Flags is ranked 266,086^th in the world and 47^th in The Dudlands for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.