The Bastion of Idealism of Rat Tzu is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by The Ever Brilliant with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, pith helmet sales, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 7.588 billion frenches 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, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Spirituality are also considered important, while Social Policy receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ratcograd. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 34.4%.

The Rat Tzuan economy, worth 421 trillion Gold Bars a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 55,581 Gold Bars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 230,478 per year while the poor average 8,787, a ratio of 26.2 to 1.

Young adults are stepping outside for the first time in ages after video games were recently banned, it turns out you can put a price on sporting integrity, the doctor has cold hands, and enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Rat Tzu's national animal is the War Rat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Ratish-Francoism.

Rat Tzu is ranked 47,000^th in the world and 1^st in Rat Heaven for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 21,251.51 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.