The Democratic Empire of Catsfern is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by John Henry Eden with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 14.293 billion Catsfernians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Raven Rock. The average income tax rate is 8.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Catsfernian economy, worth a remarkable 4,326 trillion Septims a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 302,718 Septims, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Vital intelligence-gathering activities are often put on hold for Call of Honor tournaments, wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations", holidaymakers sleep curled up on the floor as hotel beds are replaced with oversized bookcases, and the attempt to control the weather has ended in environmental disaster. Crime is totally unknown. Catsfern's national animal is the Neko, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Imperial Pantheon.

Catsfern is ranked 30,342^nd in the world and 1^st in RKS System for Most Income Equality, scoring 72.37 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.