The Dominion of 99 cats is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.266 billion 99 catsians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 67.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong 99 catsian economy, worth 86.2 trillion Nalaxes a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 68,091 Nalaxes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Courses on ornithology and apiology are surprisingly popular, endocrinology is a rapidly growing field of study, people forget to eat because they are too busy singing Leader's praises, and stoogery and pratfalls are about as scathingly clever as 99 catsian humor gets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 99 cats's national animal is the crocodile, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

99 cats is ranked 240,601^st in the world and 8,412^th in Osiris for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 47.09 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.