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The Ever Loving of The Imperium of Rats is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by The Ever Loving with an iron fist, and notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, ban on automobiles, and compulsory military service. The cynical, devout population of 5.747 billion Rats are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of My House. The average income tax rate is 34.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Ratish economy, worth 220 trillion Rat Credits a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 38,410 Rat Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

The clergy of Asyan Love Philosophy remains a single-sex institution, foreign envoys that want to visit The Imperium of Rats now have to navigate real minefields in addition to the political ones, powerful x-ray machines used by the Customs Department can see into the homes of nearby residents, and the arms industry is backed by government subsidies and harsh anti-protest laws are in place. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Imperium of Rats's national animal is the Rat, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Asyan Love Philosophy.

The Imperium of Rats is ranked 286,136^th in the world and 21^st in Theoretically Debatable for Most Developed, scoring 48.54 on the Human Development Index.