The Duds of Stench is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Lord Phoulodar with an iron fist, and notable for its zero percent divorce rate, sprawling nuclear power plants, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.785 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 1,340 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 124,247 Stenchmarks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 408,125 per year while the poor average 28,366, a ratio of 14.4 to 1.

Lobotomies haven't been the same after the practice was severed, kids are told they can be whoever they want to be when they grow up, teens graduate from front of house retail to the frontlines of war, and t-bagging dead Bigtopians merits a medal of honor. 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 318,090^th in the world and 75^th in The Dudlands for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -10.08 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.