The Duds of Stench is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Lord Phoulodar with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.921 billion Stench People 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port Retch. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 83.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Stenchish economy, worth a remarkable 1,347 trillion Stenchmarks a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 123,386 Stenchmarks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 439,851 per year while the poor average 24,895, a ratio of 17.7 to 1.

The government airlifts sacrificial lambs, the drive to dismantle public transport has crashed and burned, teenagers get their license without taking the test, and the road to salvation runs ramrod straight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stench's national animal is the Stench Turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Multiple.

Stench is ranked 39,293^rd in the world and 2^nd in Philmilo Daraavos for Most Developed, scoring 80.06 on the Human Development Index.