The Cat 😺 who rules the 🌎 of Germanic Cat is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Catalino the Cat with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 2.002 billion Germanic Cats are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gerberlania. The average income tax rate is 67.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse German Cat economy, worth 126 trillion Catnip coins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,223 Catnip coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Recognised healthcare professionals treat diabetes with a grain of sugar in a barrel of water, earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss, Little League matches are often attended by riot police with water cannon... just in case, and internet ads promising "hot singles in your area" are even less accurate than they used to be. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a 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 199,715^th in the world and 3,493^rd in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -74.58 on the Scary Big Number Scale.