The Colony of Rat District is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, zero percent divorce rate, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 641 million Rat Districtians are known throughout the region for their efficiency and work ethic, as well as their general suspicion of leisure.

The large, moralistic, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43.7%.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Rat Districtian economy, worth 18.9 trillion tails a year, is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 29,417 tails, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 83,509 per year while the poor average 8,277, a ratio of 10.1 to 1.

The populace has developed a mortal fear of the woods, passive-aggressive congratulations cards inform mums-to-be that their pregnancy is their greatest achievement in life, politicians and casino owners who so much as wander into the same room are arrested on the spot, and social care for the elderly consists of a self help leaflet and a kick on the backside. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Rat District's national animal is the rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rat District is ranked 118,647^th in the world and 5,358^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 65 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.