The Community of Cat Herders is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Top Cat with an even hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working population of 8.02 billion Cat Herdersians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The tiny, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ailurophile Town. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.6%.

The very strong Cat Herdersian economy, worth 490 trillion Fur Balls a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 61,109 Fur Balls, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 194,678 per year while the poor average 14,593, a ratio of 13.3 to 1.

Skateboarding is considered a form of diplomacy, truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news, a National Academy regulates grammar and usage, and the morbidly obese often sell stock options on their own corpses. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Cat Herders's national animal is the Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Ailurophilia.

Cat Herders is ranked 315,285^th in the world and 2^nd in land of the cat for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -10.72 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.