The Dictatorship of Cat SSR is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Big Cat with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical population of 3.27 billion Communist Cats are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Catenhavn. The average income tax rate is 69.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Cat economy, worth 88.0 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 notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 26,919 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 186,050^th in the world and 309^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 42.34 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.