The Nomadic Peoples of Hepcats is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Martin Wagner with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 12.617 billion Hepcats enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Austin. The average income tax rate is 94.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Hepcatsian economy, worth a remarkable 2,043 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 162,000 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, environmentalists are advocating slash-and-burn in the nation's forests, private surgeons have been told to cut it out, and the family of Martin Wagner bite their thumbs at paparazzi intrusions. Crime is totally unknown. Hepcats's national animal is the mouse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hepcats is ranked 4,201^st in the world and 2^nd in Old School Furry for Smartest Citizens, with 141.85 quips per hour.