The AI Network of Smudges Followers is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by The Smudge Computational Engine with an iron fist, and remarkable for its digital currency, soft-spoken computers, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.865 billion Smudge's followers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Smudge's Throne. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Smudge's follower economy, worth a remarkable 1,077 trillion Smudgecoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 221,419 Smudgecoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Smudge Computational Engine's told that love often manifests itself through homicidal four-lettered litanies, high school boys are required to pass vigorous self-mastery and sensitivity training to graduate, praying before a battle is a court-martial offence, and tours to see the 'wild men of the mountains' are popular with tourists from the big cities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Smudges Followers's national animal is the Smudge's Saw-Toothed Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Technocracy of Smudge.

Smudges Followers is ranked 282,538^th in the world and 6^th in The Warrior Alliance for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 22.02 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.