The Himalayan Rattopia of Gonrati is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Comrade York with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, smutty television, and frequent executions. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.024 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ratville. The average income tax rate is 88.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gonratian economy, worth 716 trillion Gonrati Frajs 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 102,073 Gonrati Frajs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Convicts released after being found "wrongfully imprisoned" are surprisingly chill about the whole thing, it is believed that belligerence is a passing phase foreign leaders will soon outgrow, children are disappointed to learn that cavemen never had a yabba-dabba-doo time riding dinosaurs to work, and programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable 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 Yorkism.

Gonrati is ranked 11,482^nd in the world and 289^th in Europe for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,527.13 pounds of wildlife per square mile.