The Federal Republic of Cats claw is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by President with an even hand, and notable for its daily referendums, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 9.287 billion Cats clawians 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Catnipia. The average income tax rate is 90.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Cats clawian economy, worth 710 trillion Kois a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is 76,526 Kois, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

The Violet Mile now refers to the long line-ups that former death row inmates wait in as they transfer to maximum security prisons, a passport is literally priceless, people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy, and voting district maps are said to resemble a tyrannosaurus eating the capital. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cats claw's national animal is the Speckled Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cats claw is ranked 9,590^th in the world and 536^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 121 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.