The Second Empire of Dushina is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Tsar Fluff the First with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 6.036 billion Cats are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Education, Industry, and Administration are also considered important, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Katzé. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Kitten economy, worth a remarkable 3,031 trillion Sliver Kittianias 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. 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 a breathtaking 502,257 Sliver Kittianias, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It's a hard-knock life for the orphans doing factory work for a pittance, business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions, the optimally efficient parking strategy for business commuters is referred to as the "traveling salesman problem", and owning a fishing rod can cause you to be subject to military questioning. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Dushina's national animal is the Ringed Teal, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Dushinan Catism.

Dushina is ranked 2,084^th in the world and 30^th in the Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 29,574.8 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.