The Mad King of Hell of The Stalker is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Mad King of Hell with an iron fist, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, pith helmet sales, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 14.294 billion Damned Souls 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Spirituality, Industry, and Environment are also considered important, while Welfare and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hell. The average income tax rate is 98.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Damned to Hell economy, worth an astonishing 10,272 trillion Souls a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, Trout Farming, and Retail. Average income is a breathtaking 718,623 Souls, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,175,379 per year while the poor average 184,720, a ratio of 11.8 to 1.

The government baselessly accuses foreign dignitaries of being assassins, there's a lot of smoke from the nation's "green economy", people who have lived their entire lives in The Stalker are shocked to discover that they are not citizens, and eight-year-olds can be seen lighting up in public areas. Crime is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The Stalker's national animal is the White Rabbit, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Discordianism.

The Stalker is ranked 168,858^th in the world and 58^th in Hell for Safest, scoring 1.4 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.