The Community of Sewer Rats is a very large, genial nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 361 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 66.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Sewer Ratsian economy, worth 18.7 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 51,915 ratpees, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Sewer Rats City to enjoy their national art, the government is a clear-cut case of tyranny by majority, noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law, and Sewer Rats has designated Sewer Rats City as its capital city. 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 23,288^th in the world and 339^th in The Leftist Assembly for Safest, scoring 111.94 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.