The Carmine Feline of Occidius is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Nox with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 19.689 billion Cats are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Dark Tower. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 18.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Cattish economy, worth a remarkable 5,030 trillion mice a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 255,487 mice, with the richest citizens earning 7.5 times as much as the poorest.

There's a lot of hot air coming from the Capitol Building, Nox's personal home is one of the West Pacific's most notorious party destinations, dynamite sales and concert audiences are booming, and the libraries of Occidius are staffed by lone, lonely librarians. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Occidius's national animal is the Grump, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Violetism.

Occidius is ranked 285,340^th in the world and 3,571^st in the West Pacific for Safest, scoring 2.89 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.