The Cat who rules the world of Germanic Cat is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Catalino the Cat with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, devout population of 5.752 billion Cats are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gerberlania. The average income tax rate is 77.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming German Cat economy, worth 453 trillion Catnip coins a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 78,831 Catnip coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is making attempts at curtailing the flood of spam emails with little progress, the navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust, a breakdown in Westphalian sovereignty has left political scientists dazed and confused, and running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Germanic Cat's national animal is the Cute Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cathism.

Germanic Cat is ranked 39,835^th in the world and 848^th in The North Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 64,146.1 Standard Monetary Units.