The Awesome Music of Ratdog is a titanic, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 14.886 billion Ratdogians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.2%.

The very strong Ratdogian economy, worth 934 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Soda Sales, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 62,760 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 7.0 times as much as the poorest.

Droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, military barracks resemble five-star hotels, pharmaceutical companies emphatically promise that "your pills are in the mail" rather than admit any supply shortfall, and police officers often head to work wearing onesies and fluffy pink bunny-slippers. Crime is well under control. Ratdog's national animal is the dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ratdog is ranked 117,092^nd in the world and 1^st in The Grateful Dead for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,842.8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.