The Cat of Cat174 is a mammoth, cultured nation, notable for its zero percent divorce rate, free-roaming dinosaurs, and parental licensing program. The democratic population of 7.245 billion Cat174ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 34.7%.

The Cat174ian economy, worth 390 trillion Mice a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, Trout Farming, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 53,955 Mice, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Statue-sitting has replaced the stake-out as the dullest form of police duty, local councils have to call in dump trucks to clear parks of dinosaur droppings, children who display even minimal sporting aptitude are immediately assigned a personal trainer, and lawmakers frequent the same speakeasies that they've publicly sworn to shut down. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cat174's national animal is the Cat, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Cat174 is ranked 60,639^th in the world and 2,654^th in Osiris for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 156.21 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.