The Republic of Serious Cat is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Serious Cat with an iron fist, and renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 24.368 billion Serious Cats are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Serious City. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Serious economy, worth a remarkable 3,088 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 Cheese Exports. 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 126,726 Serious Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones, police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, therapists dispense hugs for heroin dealers and cuddles for crackheads, and signs at the border tell international drivers where they can put their cars. 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 24,417^th in the world and 3^rd in Avadam Inn for Lowest Crime Rates, with 86.37 law-abiding acts per hour.