The High Athelingric of Rataopia is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Asher Wiley with an even hand, and notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, national health service, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 8.667 billion Rataopians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Osearwynn. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 38.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Rataopian economy, worth a remarkable 1,593 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 183,908 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 632,028 per year while the poor average 39,241, a ratio of 16.1 to 1.

The most sacred right is the right to ignore the rights of slaves, oilmen are in the business of greasing people's palms, agricultural employees work for peanuts, and Catherine Gratwick's campaign support is considered seminal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rataopia's national animal is the snow leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Adoptionism.

Rataopia is ranked 54,107^th in the world and 1,007^th in Snep for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,846.22 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.