The Psychic Aliens of Catspaw Sylvia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Sylvia with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, public floggings, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.164 billion felines are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dungeon Set at Desilu Studios. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Catspaw Sylvian economy, worth a remarkable 1,562 trillion Gold coins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 139,914 Gold coins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 458,835 per year while the poor average 32,020, a ratio of 14.3 to 1.

Light entertainment isn't dead, talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses, the education system is being cleansed of all corporate influence, and drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Catspaw Sylvia's national animal is the cow, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Alien Technology.

Catspaw Sylvia is ranked 45,003^rd in the world and 22^nd in Federation of Martian Colonies for Lowest Crime Rates, with 75.76 law-abiding acts per hour.