The Comfy Community of Noodle Cats is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Tommy Douglas with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 1.509 billion Noodle Cats 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 large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Catlin. The average income tax rate is 74.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Cat economy, worth 177 trillion marks a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 117,724 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's leader is normally just referred to as "snuggle-wuggle-huggy-bear", community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home, rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century, and hospitals are amongst the best-funded in the region. Crime is totally unknown. Noodle Cats's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Noodle Cats is ranked 287,376^th in the world and 554^th in Vibonia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -17.4 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.