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The Flying in a rocket ship of Macaroon Cat is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Parry Gripp with an iron fist, and notable for its lack of airports, frequent executions, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 13.388 billion Macaroon Catians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moon. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 73.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Macaroon Catian economy, worth a remarkable 2,060 trillion macaroons a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 153,882 macaroons, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 526,137 per year while the poor average 33,090, a ratio of 15.9 to 1.

Some say that Parry Gripp can't handle the truth but can handle truth-seekers, art is not complete without a touch of alizarin blood and titanium sweat, the urban poor thumbs down the new hitchhiking ban, and lending firms are subject to strict government regulations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Macaroon Cat's national animal is the cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is music.

Macaroon Cat is ranked 43,114^th in the world and 7^th in Hollow Point for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 22,595.73 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.