The Most Serene Republic of FourCats is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Human with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.511 billion FourCatsians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bed. The average income tax rate is 92.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient feline economy, worth 397 trillion floras a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 113,172 floras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most pop videos prominently feature the feline flag, freedom is never freely given — only when the alternative is too expensive, babies are a small but significant export, and pretending to be prejudiced is a good way to get out of jury duty. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. FourCats's national animal is the rat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is lazer pointer.

FourCats is ranked 9,230^th in the world and 34^th in Refugia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 102.53 law-abiding acts per hour.