The Himalayan Field Rat Paradise of Gonrati is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sir Raticus York with a fair hand, and remarkable for its absence of drug laws, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.838 billion Gonratians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of York City. The average income tax rate is 73.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Gonratian economy, worth 161 trillion Gonrati Frajs a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 87,914 Gonrati Frajs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Buses are widely regarded as the safest way to travel, transgender and agender are on the education agenda, the military has forsaken terrestrial warfare, and elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gonrati's national animal is the Himalayan Field Rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ratism.

Gonrati is ranked 224,759^th in the world and 7,470^th in the South Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -8.25 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.