The Marathing of Ratateague is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its smutty television, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 30.396 billion Ratatekkers 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 medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Holtmímir. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Ratatasque economy, worth an astonishing 13,505 trillion ʝarls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an amazing 444,329 ʝarls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fake designer clothes are shredded and burnt while many in the world don't have a shirt on their back, badminton was recently banned due to 'unacceptable violence' inherent to the game, a government program is underway to revitalize Ratateague's beaches, and bad punctuation has come to a full stop. Crime is totally unknown. Ratateague's national animal is the flying squirrel, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Ratateague is ranked 831^st in the world and 1^st in The Social Liberal Union for Highest Average Incomes, with 444,329.76 Standard Monetary Units.