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In this episode of Everything Should Be Better, Tristin Hopper explains how Alberta fights, and wins, an unending war on rats. Watch the video above, or read the transcript below.

Here’s a map of the global range of the common rat. Notice anything? While the rest of the inhabitable world suffers under the dominion of King Rat, there’s a big pentagon of land in the middle of Canada where the rodents have been completely eradicated.

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That’s not a typo: For nearly 70 years, the province of Alberta has officially been rat-free. Rats still get in, but they never survive long enough to breed. The result is that Alberta is a magical land where rats never destroy vegetable gardens, where nobody gets hantavirus from rat droppings in their attic and where houses never burn down because a rat chewed through the wiring.

This is true for one singular reason: The Province of Alberta has declared a pitiless, eternal, total war on ratkind.