The Community of Catsstown is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 759 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 83.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Catsstonian economy, worth 39.6 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 52,166 Wooden Cents, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens can only enjoy the splendor of the natural world in designated 'Majesty Appreciation' zones, autocrats are persona non grata, relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly, and foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that Catsstown will pay them to stop. 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 6,095^th in the world and 65^th in Forest for Safest, scoring 128.19 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.