The Feline Socialist Republic of Tristenia is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Minister Blaine Coon with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 9.744 billion Cats are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tristenopolis. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Tristenian economy, worth a remarkable 1,213 trillion Dead Birds a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 124,554 Dead Birds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

If someone says there's plenty of living space in Tristenia they're lyin', government employees from Tristenia dominate international lumberjack competitions, they say that Cats made a dessert and called it peace, and most of the population has had bad experiences with hoes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tristenia's national animal is the Kitten, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is State Nyatheism.

Tristenia is ranked 249,034^th in the world and 2^nd in Avarenth for Largest Black Market, with 184 billion Standard Monetary Units.