The Republic of Serious Cat is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Serious Cat with an iron fist, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The cynical, devout population of 29.588 billion Serious Cats are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Environment, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Serious City. The average income tax rate is 92.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Serious economy, worth a remarkable 3,914 trillion Serious Dollars 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, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. 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 an impressive 132,312 Serious Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Military advisors frequently remind San Vitenzan farmers that they have to pull the pin on a grenade before throwing it, ordinary soldiers trade rumors about the top secret "Death From Above" project, rural Serious Cats stare in awe at the bright lights of the big cities, and modesty is treated with the side-eye. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Serious Cat's national animal is the Serious Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Seriousism.

Serious Cat is ranked 10,020^th in the world and 1^st in Avadam Inn for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 8,413.6 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.