The Community of Catsstown is a huge, genial nation, ruled by Tibs Félicette with an even hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, hatred of cheese, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 826 million Catsstonians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aegean City. The average income tax rate is 84.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Catsstonian economy, worth 43.8 trillion Wooden Cents a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 53,075 Wooden Cents, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ice-filled coffins are ominously positioned in the corner of every hospital ward, the nation's smallest Catball teams trade draft picks for a free lunch, older citizens lament over the loss of law and order, and Tibs Félicette has just been declared ruler of Catsstown in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Catsstown's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Catsstown is ranked 277,693^rd in the world and 285^th in Forest for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -63.73 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.