The Black Creature of Typhoid Rats is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, enslaved workforce, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 3.059 billion Typhoid Ratsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Sewers. The average income tax rate is 73.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Typhoid Ratsian economy, worth 412 trillion Cards a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 134,958 Cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, half-submerged and flooded seaside hotels are technically still next to the beach, blue bloods are welcome in Typhoid Rats, and the government is funneling billions into Cape Typhoid Rats following the shuttle crash. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Typhoid Rats's national animal is the Rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Typhoid Rats is ranked 171,705^th in the world and 18^th in MTG TCG for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 503.69 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.