The Scritchy Furpile of Slys Paws is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Sly with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 19.679 billion Slys Pawsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Environment. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but inefficient Slys Pawsian economy, worth a remarkable 2,251 trillion champies a year, is extremely specialized and solely comprised of the Tourism industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 114,417 champies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Pushy mums tell their kids to be doctors and engineers but steer them away from being penniless lawyers, the election for Sly's office's janitor is heating up, beaches are empty as the shark population multiplies exponentially, and contestants on Slys Paws's Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Slys Paws's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Slys Paws is ranked 1,144^th in the world and 32^nd in The East Pacific for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 100.87 on the Kitten Softness Rating.