The Rat King of Department of WA Affairs is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Mr Mental with an iron fist, and renowned for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical, devout population of 10.489 billion Rats are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Spirituality, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Basement. The average income tax rate is 74.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient a rat economy, worth 516 trillion Mones 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 Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports and Uranium Mining. Average income is 49,285 Mones, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of The Basement, Harry Potter books are banned, Mr Mental has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw, and Mr Mental is the self-declared God of all Department of WA Affairs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Department of WA Affairs's national animal is the Rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ratism.

Department of WA Affairs is ranked 201,234^th in the world and 77^th in Commonwealth of Sovereign States for Fattest Citizens, with 9.31 Obesity Rate.