The Carmine Feline of Occidius is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Nox with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 19.644 billion Cats enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Dark Tower. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Cattish economy, worth a remarkable 4,908 trillion mice a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 249,880 mice, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,934,834 per year while the poor average 8,453, a ratio of 228 to 1.

There's a lot of hot air coming from the Capitol Building, Nox's personal home is one of the West Pacific's most notorious party destinations, dynamite sales and concert audiences are booming, and the libraries of Occidius are staffed by lone, lonely librarians. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Occidius's national animal is the Grump, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Violetism.

Occidius is ranked 284,397^th in the world and 3,678^th in the West Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 4.48 pounds of wildlife per square mile.