The Dictatorship of Cat SSR is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Big Cat with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 3.253 billion Communist Cats are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Public Transport. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Catenhavn. The average income tax rate is 68.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Cat economy, worth 90.5 trillion Miavs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 27,832 Miavs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's only university is the School of Hard Knocks, the government has to take out its Visa to eliminate visas, teenage TV characters are played by thirty-year-olds by the end of the second season, and government policies change at the drop of a rabbit. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cat SSR's national animal is the Cat in a tiger costume, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Big Cat's cult of personality.

Cat SSR is ranked 148,654^th in the world and 503^rd in The Leftist Assembly for Highest Poor Incomes, with 23,939.56 Standard Monetary Units.