The Protectorate of Cat379 is a colossal, genial nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 3.934 billion Cat379ians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 65.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Cat379ian economy, worth 68.1 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, quite specialized black market in Pizza Delivery, Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing. 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 17,318 Mice, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cat379's national animal is the Cat.

Cat379 is ranked 268,085^th in the world and 9,981^st in Osiris for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -6.69 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.