The Swarming Plague of Zombie Rats is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Death of Rats with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, infamous sell-swords, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 6.568 billion Zombie Rats have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Sewers on the Corner of Every Region. The average income tax rate is 37.5%.

The all-consuming Zombie Rodent economy, worth 727 trillion morsels of flesh a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Soda Sales, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 110,731 morsels of flesh, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens have to dodge their neighbors' drones while getting the morning paper, government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy, there's a literal nanny state for the legions of children taken by social services, and one-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man. Crime is well under control. Zombie Rats's national animal is the Rat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is тʜɛ 𐍈L∂ ɢoDs.

Zombie Rats is ranked 47,866^th in the world and 1^st in The Sewers on the Corner of Every Region for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,019.13 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.