The Under-Empire of Skaventide is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Council of Thirteen with an iron fist, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, enslaved workforce, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.076 billion Skaven are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Spirituality and Industry also on the agenda, while Environment and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Skavenblight. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Skaven economy, worth 173 trillion warpstone tokens a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 161,651 warpstone tokens, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,470,450 per year while the poor average 2,022, a ratio of 727 to 1.

Tech companies are playing whack-a-mole with one-post accounts, the fate of the world literally rests on Council of Thirteen's fingers, hedge fund managers are diversifying into herbaceous borders, and churches now double as dungeons. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Skaventide's national animal is the war rat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Great Horned Rat.

Skaventide is ranked 328,723^rd in the world and 58^th in The United Federations for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring -15.17 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.