The People's Republic of North Cattistan is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, ubiquitous missile silos, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 569 million North Cattistanians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 76.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish North Cattistanian economy, worth 16.7 trillion mews a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Pizza Delivery. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 29,292 mews, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Exports of chewing gum are inexplicably falling, babysitters are a thing of the past, the nation tends not to learn from its history, and economic planning is exalted as a human art form. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. North Cattistan's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

North Cattistan is ranked 203,059^th in the world and 293^rd in United Kingdom for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -3.16 on the Clooney Contribution Index.