The Community of Sewer Rats is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 264 million Sewer Ratsians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Sewer Ratsian economy, worth 13.6 trillion ratpees a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 51,605 ratpees, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Discarded pennies litter the streets, tree farms across the nation are overrun by clipboard-wielding biologists, children as young as six shock their parents by coming out of the closet, and the government has solemnly sworn not to look up other nations' internet browsing history if the favor is returned. Crime is totally unknown. Sewer Rats's national animal is the Rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sewer Rats is ranked 40,115^th in the world and 321^st in The Leftist Assembly for Most Cultured, scoring 75 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.