The United Meowcialist States of Purrium is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by General Secretary Honey Meow with an even hand, and notable for its public floggings, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 3.279 billion Purrians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Honeypurr City. The average income tax rate is 68.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Purriumian economy, worth 178 trillion Purrs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 54,317 Purrs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets, the government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks, the prevalence of circular logic frequently renders parliamentary observers dizzy, and diplomats agree to the terms and conditions of peace treaties without reading them. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Purrium's national animal is the Cat and its national religion is Purrrrrism.

Purrium is ranked 125,088^th in the world and 27^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Most Corrupt Governments, with 7.78 kickbacks per hour.