The Stenchland of Lowestan is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by His Highness Lowestan Brandish with an iron fist, and renowned for its disturbing lack of elderly people, keen interest in outer space, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 14.662 billion Lowestanians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lerner. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 37.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Lowestanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,665 trillion baht a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 113,617 baht, with the richest citizens earning 7.5 times as much as the poorest.

The saying "when pigs fly" has been changed to "when the lights work", scientists pester asteroids with probes until they go away, other worlds are informed of limited-time sales millennia after they conclude, and songs of praise to His Highness Lowestan Brandish are filled with coded messages from the resistance. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lowestan's national animal is the penguin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Lunchtimecoversationalists.

Lowestan is ranked 90,097^th in the world and 4^th in Atlantean Stewardship for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,383.26 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.