The Duds of Stench is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Lord Phoulodar with an iron fist, and remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, unlimited-speed roads, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.822 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 83.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Stenchish economy, worth a remarkable 1,341 trillion Stenchmarks a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 123,933 Stenchmarks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 418,746 per year while the poor average 27,129, a ratio of 15.4 to 1.

Some say that Lord Phoulodar can't handle the truth but can handle truth-seekers, there's a lot of smoke from the nation's "green economy", bridge salesmen line up for blocks to make their cases at Lord Phoulodar's office, and there are no more heroes any more. 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 268,065^th in the world and 77^th in The Dudlands for Safest, scoring 20.46 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.