The Nation State of Catillac Cats 5 is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Number One with an even hand, and notable for its public floggings, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and strictly enforced bedtime. The compassionate, hard-working population of 21.987 billion Catillac Cats 5ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Catillac Cats 5 City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 47.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Catillac Cats 5ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,657 trillion cat nips a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 75,407 cat nips, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 381,217 per year while the poor average 8,295, a ratio of 46.0 to 1.

Comatose jurors are the defense's favorite, the Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause, police detectives carry phrenology calipers as part of their standard kit, and the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Catillac Cats 5's national animal is the mouse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is 9 Lives.

Catillac Cats 5 is ranked 17,300^th in the world and 3^rd in EPCOT Center 1981 for Largest Black Market, with 220 trillion Standard Monetary Units.