The Blighted Holy Skavenate of North Sloughtown Metropolis is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Arch-Sultan 'Doom of Bigtopia' Tayanquol with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, strictly enforced bedtime, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.247 billion Sloughtown Skavens 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Spirituality, Law & Order, and Administration are also considered important, while Education and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sloughtown. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 84.1%.

The frighteningly efficient North Sloughtownite economy, worth 984 trillion spirits a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Gambling. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 187,673 spirits, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 759,397 per year while the poor average 30,915, a ratio of 24.6 to 1.

Every day at 4am Sloughtown Skavens wake to pray for the sun to rise, politicians literally speak literally, Arch-Sultan 'Doom of Bigtopia' Tayanquol is refusing to make decisions until the Moon is out of Capricorn, and people experiencing anaphylactic shock are told to buck their ideas up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. North Sloughtown Metropolis's national animal is the molerat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Great Holy Atheist Rat.

North Sloughtown Metropolis is ranked 64,870^th in the world and 3,881^st in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 70.88 law-abiding acts per hour.