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uniquely smelly districts: Tooterville, Pootonia, Morassia, Methania, Lousyana, Fungalo, and Cryptonia. Each district elected an official to rep-resent its citizens at Rancidia’s capital building—the Onion Palace above downtown Tooterville.

These elected officials, known as the Seven Stinkers of Rancidia, worked hard to ensure all Rancidians enjoyed equality and stinking freedom, regardless of their particular scent.

But that was once upon a time, before a horrible ogre named Fiddlefart stormed the Onion Palace, kicked out the Seven Stinkers, and took over Rancidia. Just like that, a healthy democracy became a wicked kingdom.

And while democracies are supposed to celebrate everyone, wicked kingdoms celebrate only one: the person in charge. In Rancidia, Fiddlefart was in charge. So, naturally, his first order of business was to give himself the made-up title of Grossest Smelling in the Land. He had a trophy made and everything.

Fiddlefart protected this made-up title with a passion that was all too real. Whenever the ogre caught a whiff of competition, he would wipe it out by ordering a scrubbing, which was by far his