The Community of Shadowkat is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service and absence of drug laws. The hard-working, cynical, devout population of 3.431 billion Shadowkatians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.4%.

The strong Shadowkatian economy, worth 178 trillion kamas a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 52,004 kamas, with the richest citizens earning 5.8 times as much as the poorest.

Shadowkat's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, a major religion has been named as Shadowkat's national religion, Leader has just been declared ruler of Shadowkat in an international press conference, and Shadowkat has designated Shadowkat City as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Shadowkat's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Shadowkat is ranked 88,488^th in the world and 1^st in Border City for Most Cultured, scoring 67 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.