The Cat of Cat116 is a mammoth, cultured nation, renowned for its daily referendums, ritual sacrifices, and punitive income tax rates. The quiet, industrious population of 9.333 billion Catianians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cattery 116. The average income tax rate is 54.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Catianian economy, worth 284 trillion Mice a year, is led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 30,453 Mice, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The libraries of Cat116 are staffed by lone, lonely librarians, there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees, ambitious "businessmen" use their children to sell and advertise their products, and elite teams of assassins have been sent into Brasilistan. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cat116's national animal is the Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Cat116 is ranked 79,002^nd in the world and 3,874^th in Osiris for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,254.74 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.