The Duds 🐓 RepubliC of Changing Flags is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Dottie Princess of Nil with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, enslaved workforce, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 21.194 billion Changelings 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 Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Windblows. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 81.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Changlinglish economy, worth a remarkable 2,945 trillion Ducats a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 138,956 Ducats, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 570,317 per year while the poor average 22,352, a ratio of 25.5 to 1.

People can often be seen driving to work in war-surplus tanks, Changing Flags recently hosted the least successful trade negotiations since The Phantom Menace, clairvoyants and soothsayers find fellowship at their local McRonalds, and garbage is told to go back to where it came from. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Changing Flags's national animal is the Goat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Lookathatian Synod Of True True Faith.

Changing Flags is ranked 301,300^th in the world and 9^th in Able Wajiri Poonhumtin for Nicest Citizens, with 0.42 average smiles per day.