The Cat of Cat277 is a mammoth, pleasant nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, strictly enforced bedtime, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 6.639 billion Cat277ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and look forward to their next free and open election, to be held on an as-yet unannounced date.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.0%.

The strong Cat277ian economy, worth 395 trillion Mice a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 59,632 Mice, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 240,325 per year while the poor average 9,889, a ratio of 24.3 to 1.

Posh restaurants scatter glass fragments on the dining room floor to keep out barefoot undesirables, the nation is under martial law, the phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon, and confessions don't count if suffixed with "izzle". Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Cat277's national animal is the Cat, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Cat277 is ranked 71,389^th in the world and 3,332^nd in Osiris for Most Cultured, scoring 68 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.