The Federal Republic of Giant Cat Throw Pillows is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Giantest Cat Throw Pillow with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, enslaved workforce, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.896 billion Giant Cat Throw Pillowsians 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Catopia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 71.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Giant Cat Throw Pillowsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,811 trillion Mini Cat Throw Pillows a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 95,858 Mini Cat Throw Pillows, with the richest citizens earning 6.7 times as much as the poorest.

Produce markets have tanked in pursuit of the perfect potato, it is said that a Giant Cat Throw Pillowsian woman's work is never done, claiming it smells like rain can land you in a storm of trouble, and children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Giant Cat Throw Pillows's national animal is the Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Throw Pillian.

Giant Cat Throw Pillows is ranked 286,109^th in the world and 2^nd in Yarnia for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.94 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.