The Most Serene Republic of FourCats is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Human with a fair hand, and renowned for its teetotalling pirates, complete lack of prisons, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.667 billion FourCatsians 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bed. The average income tax rate is 92.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient feline economy, worth 434 trillion floras a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 118,357 floras, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Human's luxurious new home has been designated as a protected cultural heritage site, it takes a village to catch a criminal, the stratosphere is full of "silent but deadly" attacks from Human's rear echelons, and people accuse the government of being in bed with Big Safety. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. FourCats's national animal is the rat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is lazer pointer.

FourCats is ranked 20,810^th in the world and 60^th in Refugia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 274.03 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.