The Dominion of Fennel Stalk is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its aversion to nipples, pith helmet sales, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 3.329 billion Fennel Stalkians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 76.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Fennel Stalkian economy, worth 245 trillion Golds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 73,745 Golds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping, the nation's biggest export is stupidity, the government believes in trickle-down happiness, and whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of Fennel Stalkian Embarrassments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fennel Stalk's national animal is the Akita, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Fennel Stalk is ranked 291,350^th in the world and 6,514^th in eta for Nicest Citizens, with 0.7 average smiles per day.