The Republic of Soap eating Cats is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical, devout population of 822 million Soap eating Catsians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 56.0%.

The sizeable but inefficient Soap eating Catsian economy, worth 35.8 trillion $$$$$s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Pizza Delivery, Basket Weaving, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 43,604 $$$$$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

Policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence', whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of Soap eating Catsian Embarrassments, it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit, and Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Soap eating Cats City to enjoy their national art. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Soap eating Cats's national animal is the Soap, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Soap eating Cats is ranked 158,370^th in the world and 2^nd in Parody puppet prison for Fattest Citizens, with 9.85 Obesity Rate.