The Empire of FF Rat is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its burgeoning falcon population. The hard-working population of 719 million FF Ratians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.9%.

The very strong FF Ratian economy, worth 43.2 trillion marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Tourism. Average income is 60,029 marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 183,377 per year while the poor average 15,231, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. FF Rat's national animal is the falcon, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

FF Rat is ranked 218,662^nd in the world and 1^st in The Rat for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 42 on the Kitten Softness Rating.