The Free Land of Shadow Cat is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic, devout population of 3.688 billion Shadow Cats are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 47.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Shadow Cat economy, worth 120 trillion kamas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Retail. Average income is 32,543 kamas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags, a major religion has been named as Shadow Cat's national religion, Leader has just been declared ruler of Shadow Cat in an international press conference, and Shadow Cat has designated Shadow Cat City as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shadow Cat's national animal is the shadow cat.

Shadow Cat is ranked 280,498^th in the world and 1^st in The Middler East for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -6.48 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.