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“Behold the Wonders of Stench!”

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The Feudal Council of Stench is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Lord Phoulodar with an iron fist, and renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, smutty television, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.733 billion Stench People 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 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 83.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Stenchish economy, worth a remarkable 1,320 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 123,026 Stenchmarks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 406,108 per year while the poor average 27,883, a ratio of 14.6 to 1.

The government invades its allies more than its enemies, the police are tightening their grip on alcohol smugglers, oilmen are in the business of greasing people's palms, and bin lorries have replaced birds as the source of the dawn chorus. 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 235,318^th in the world and 31^st in Sweethearts of the Chicken Yards for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6.15 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.