The Colony of Skittering Rats is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Big Cheese with an iron fist, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, triple-decker prams, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.109 billion Rats 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, well-organized government prioritizes Administration, with Industry, Healthcare, and Defense also on the agenda, while International Aid and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mouse Hole. The average income tax rate is 94.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Ratsian economy, worth a remarkable 3,130 trillion cheeses a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Uranium Mining, Retail, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an amazing 281,763 cheeses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

The government is seen to favor traditionalist religions, frat-house partying has become the national pastime, bands of paramedics walk the streets looking for suspicious medical activity, and both diets and economic output are growing leaner with recent restrictions to free trade. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Skittering Rats's national animal is the roach, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Skittering Rats is ranked 292,215^th in the world and 8^th in The Sewers on the Corner of Every Region for Lowest Crime Rates, with 7.74 law-abiding acts per hour.