The Most Serene Republic of FourCats is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Human with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, lack of airports, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.577 billion FourCatsians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bed. The average income tax rate is 92.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient feline economy, worth 410 trillion floras 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 114,854 floras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, even the nation's brussel sprouts are delicious and nutritious, crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed, and every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. FourCats's national animal is the rat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is lazer pointer.

FourCats is ranked 9,268^th in the world and 58^th in Refugia for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 11,574.31 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.