The Dynasty of Rats is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Queen Velvette with an iron fist, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, parental licensing program, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.869 billion Ratsians 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 juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rattica. The average income tax rate is 58.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Ratsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,432 trillion rats a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 161,555 rats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Residents are readily ratting out rats in restaurants, domestic cruise ships fly the Ratsian flag out of fear of being blown up, anyone dissenting from the state ideology is declared "mentally ill" and whisked away in a straitjacket, and barbers who trim a few inches of hair bill the government for their labor. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rats's national animal is the Marsh Rat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Ratholicism Divine Order.

Rats is ranked 324,256^th in the world and 13^th in Voreia Aravia for Nicest Citizens, with 0.33 average smiles per day.