The Republic of Trance Cat is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 10.42 billion Trance Catians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 21.7%.

The powerhouse Trance Catian economy, worth 574 trillion Beats a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Gambling, and Book Publishing. Average income is 55,087 Beats, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 247,546 per year while the poor average 7,571, a ratio of 32.7 to 1.

Violetist maidens who fall for an outsider must leave their violet light districts in shame, beating enemies to death with a baseball bat is legal if done within nine innings, the only women behind bars are barmaids, and wrongful arrests abound as 'criminals' blame the guy next to them. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Trance Cat's national animal is the DJ Khitten, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Trance Cat is ranked 175,969^th in the world and 63^rd in Obsidian Islands for Lowest Crime Rates, with 58.79 law-abiding acts per hour.