The Sprawling mess of Stinki is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, unlimited-speed roads, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 2.277 billion Stinkers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Stacks. The average income tax rate is 74.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Stinky economy, worth 219 trillion gold bars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 96,597 gold bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's student exchange programs are something of a one way street, pieces of iron pyrite are believed to be worth their weight in gold, graffiti graces every city's streets, and UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stinki's national animal is the Max Barry, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Stinki is ranked 67,005^th in the world and 160^th in Talonia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 142.97 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.