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The Empire of Catsarecute is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Sir Hissenscratch with an even hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 3.77 billion Catsarecuteans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Box Fort. The average income tax rate is 71.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Catsarecutean economy, worth 423 trillion Milks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 112,342 Milks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Visions of giant pink Cats are a common side effect after Catsarecuteans eat their meals, students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, disaster victims are viewed with disdain, and children usually cry on their first day of school. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Catsarecute's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is NONE.

Catsarecute is ranked 208,115^th in the world and 8,730^th in Lazarus for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -2.65 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.