The Borderlands of Skavenholm is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The Council of Thirteen and One with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, feral children, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.688 billion Skavens are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Skavenblight City. The average income tax rate is 68.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Skaven economy, worth 212 trillion Tokens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 125,729 Tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every citizen must submit to DNA testing to be eliminated from police inquiries, dining out often involves Rats on the plate no matter what you order, people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy, and the government has undertaken a massive health education program to combat VODAIS. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Skavenholm's national animal is the Rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Great Horned Rat.

Skavenholm is ranked 9,894^th in the world and 553^rd in Lazarus for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 55.65 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.