The Republic of Softest Kittens is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its parental licensing program, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, humorless population of 7.741 billion Softest Kittensians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Softest Kittensian economy, worth a remarkable 1,792 trillion currencies 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Basket Weaving. Average income is an amazing 231,547 currencies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The police crack down on tax evaders without mercy, doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion, diaper sales are up, and students learn how to disarm mines before understanding basic arithmetic. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Softest Kittens's national animal is the animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Softest Kittens is ranked 303,924^th in the world and 40^th in Vickenian experiment incubator for Most Primitive, scoring -344.91 on the Scary Big Number Scale.