The Cattery of Zinertia is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by An actual cat with an even hand, and remarkable for its lack of airports, free-roaming dinosaurs, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 28.889 billion Zinertians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cattertia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Zinertian economy, worth a remarkable 6,680 trillion Zints a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 231,236 Zints, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Some Zinertian athletes have defected to Blackacre after being denied the chance to compete in international sporting events, no one questions why the chicken crossed the road anymore, people are offered free trials to go to trial, and geosynchronous satellites are now manned by unpaid interns. Crime is totally unknown. Zinertia's national animal is the CAT, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zinertia is ranked 333,096^th in the world and 17,523^rd in Lazarus for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -20.71 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.