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The Cat of Cat078

“Disharmony, like a cat, gets everywhere”

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The Cat of Cat078 is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its avant-garde cinema, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 856 million Cat078ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cattery 078. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.7%.

The very strong Cat078ian economy, worth 60.3 trillion Mice 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 70,402 Mice, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 302,566 per year while the poor average 10,468, a ratio of 28.9 to 1.

Motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings, gun ownership is compulsory, and it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cat078's national animal is the Cat.

Cat078 is ranked 60,707^th in the world and 27^th in Devide by Zero for Highest Average Incomes, with 70,402.9 Standard Monetary Units.

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