The Republic of Softest Kittens is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, humorless population of 8.122 billion Softest Kittensians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. The income tax rate is 100%.
The frighteningly efficient Softest Kittensian economy, worth a remarkable 1,935 trillion currencies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Basket Weaving. Average income is an amazing 238,318 currencies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Foreign policy is to avoid standing up to bullies, too many developers spoil the codebase, prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping, and every week is blindness awareness week. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Softest Kittens's national animal is the animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Softest Kittens is ranked 342,361st in the world and 53rd in Vickenian experiment incubator for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -16.37 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.
National Happenings
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Softest Kittens, every week is blindness awareness week.
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Softest Kittens, prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping.
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Softest Kittens, too many developers spoil the codebase.
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Softest Kittens, foreign policy is to avoid standing up to bullies.
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Softest Kittens, battlefield gains are quickly lost when enemies don't respect a time-out.
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Softest Kittens, the banhammer is a standard police sidearm.
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Softest Kittens, when people ask what the difference is between politicians and lawyers they are referred to document c15(iv) section 14.1 subsection 3.2 of the Jan 2015 political category definition guidance codes.
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Softest Kittens, schoolchildren on field trips are asked what torture means to them.
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Softest Kittens, sheepish teenagers are making eye contact with their parents for the first time in a decade during state-enforced 'no-phones hour'.
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Softest Kittens, time flies when you're not having fun.