The Borderlands of A Cat with a Fish is a tiny, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 10 million Cat with a Fishians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 54.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The fragile Cat with a Fishian economy, worth 230 billion Netherlands a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 23,066 Netherlands, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping, exterminators swarm Cat with a Fishian homes, every politician claims to be at least 1% Native Cat with a Fishian, and the traditional Violetist dish of stuffed sheep's head is served with an intense look of shock upon its face. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A Cat with a Fish's national animal is the Mezzotint on Paper, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

A Cat with a Fish is ranked 70,512^th in the world and 16^th in The National Gallery of Serkovy for Nicest Citizens, with 16.29 average smiles per day.