Location: Kittens Sanctuary

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Blissful Sound of Purring is a massive, economically powerful nation, notable for its national health service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.776 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Feline Contentment. The average income tax rate is 75%, and even higher for the wealthy. A large private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

The government has ordered a moratorium on referenda, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, and citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling". Crime is totally unknown. Purring's national animal is the tabby cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the headbutt.

Purring is ranked 10th in Kittens Sanctuary and 87,942nd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -20 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and