The Cat😺 who rules the world😅 of Germanic Cat is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its public floggings, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The devout population of 823 million Cats of Germany 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 Spirituality, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gerberlania. The average income tax rate is 56.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The German EPIK cat economy, worth 32.0 trillion Catnichtigs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 38,902 Catnichtigs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There is a dearth of space for new houses, business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters, the military is blowing up any threat to employment within the nation, and victims of crime are viewed as less trustworthy than politicians. Crime 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.

Germanic Cat is ranked 170,902^nd in the world and 4,140^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 56.23 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.