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Catslandism is the state ideology of the United Counties of Catsland, a confederation of four sub-states (the Counties), each one ruled as an one-party dictatorship by one of the four registered political parties of this nation, so the citizens can "vote with their feet" moving from a different region if they prefer a different ideology.

It believes that an ordered society necessitates that the citizens have the freedom to live under whatever ideology they want, providing they do not try to overthrow the central government. Real Catslandism is more or less a realistic adaptation of Catsland's ideology into practice, being neither an utopia nor a dystopia.

History
Catslandism was developed by the Catslandian elites (an dictatorial  composed by the national , the   and the  ) as a response to the ideological-driven riots between adepts of different ideologies on the country, who are always angry both at the government and at each other, creating constant struggles on the cities streets.

To appease them, and to avoid losing their power, the Catslandian elite forged an alliance with the main ideological leaders (that could be bought), creating four political parties, two representing the elite factions and two the main oppositional ideologies. Each of these parties received one of the four national subdivisions, the Counties, to govern as they want, providing they remains loyal to the central government:


 * **Stability, Progress and Industry** (SPI): controlling the central zone around the nation's capital, it is dominated by the big corporations and the scientists. It's ideology is the, a pro-business, law and order technophilic transhumanist party classified as a [[File:Cultcenter.png]] culturally variable to [[File:Prgess.png]] culturally left [[File:CentreAuthRight.png]] moderate AuthRight ideology. The *de facto* political leader of the nation.
 * **Catsland Supremacy Party** (CSP): governing with an iron hand the industrial northern region of the country, whose ideology, the, is a [[File:Trad.png]] culturally right [[File:Authunity.png]] AuthUnity [[File:Ethnonat.png]] (ethno)[[File:File:Nation.png]] nationalist one. Obviously is the favorite of the military.
 * **Libertarian People's Party** (LPP): Holding the coastal western region, it is of the two main opposition ideologies (the, a [[File:Libunity.png]] LibUnity to [[File:Libright-yellow.png]] LibRight ideology who supports maximum individual and economic freedom to individuals with enforced concurrence and prohibition of monopolies and market concentration, and a radical degree of decentralization, where even a building can operate with some degree of political autonomy.
 * **Catsland's Green Party** (CGP): The other main opposition ideology, the CGP rules over the larger but less populated territory at the nation's eastern forests and hills, ensuring the preservation of the nature as dictated by its ideology, . This ideology is a [[File:Trad.png]] culturally right [[File:Nonquadrant.png]] Non-Quadrant version of environmentalism.

National Administration
The central administration, still ruled by the political and military elite of the pre-Catslandist government, allows each County a large degree of autonomy over their local issues. In practice, all Counties are ruled by people loyal to the central government, but the latter rarely mess with the local administration.

The central administration has four main areas of operation:


 * 1) National defense and foreign policy in general (Catsland is an isolationist country, to avoid foreign interference which could favor one or another ideology, but maintains a robust military which includes NBC weapons)
 * 2) General environmental protection (since pollution can affect a neighbor County, there are national laws to regulate certain kind of emissions)
 * 3) Anti-subversion activity (in all Counties there are agents of the secret police who watches any possible manifestation of unrest, subversion or actual opposition activity - of course all the four parties are full of these agents in all layers of local administration)
 * 4) Advanced scientific research (mainly in these areas of national interest, specially advanced weapons and vigilance equipment).

Local governments are entitled about how to provide other services or regulate other activities.

While having *de jure* freedom of expression and political freedom, certain ideologies (usually those on the left-side of the political spectrum who have the annoying habit of opposing the national institutions) are *de facto* banned in the country, or only allowed to be practiced in a controlled and watered version in the subregions of some Counties. However, there are many worker cooperatives or socialist-like operations in the RPP (intensely watched by the secret police and commanded by party operatives loyal to the regime).

County Administration
Each County is governed as an one-party dictatorship by the party which controls it, having theoretically almost total autonomy to apply whatever ideological policy they want. Their only duty to the central government is to pay a certain amount of taxes, which can be collected whatever way they want from their citizens (notably, the LPP does not have enforced taxes, but uses a feudal-like system where each layer collects service fees from their citizens and pass them for the next layer).

In practice, all the cadres of these four parties are selected among people loyal to the central administration, so they can't rebel against it or allow subversive or opposition groups to freely operate. Despite this, every County has a very perceptible different way of life, and the main tenants of their ideologies is applied.

A citizen is theoretically free to disagree with the ideology of their County, but not allowed to demonstrate or openly criticize the government. He can however move to another County, providing he follows the due process of admission on it, or to subregions inside the County who have variations of the main ideology of the party.

To ensure that a County is free from the influence of the ideology of another County, each one is walled and travel from one County to another is tightly regulated. However, it should be noted that a few subregions exists on the borders between the Counties, with hybrid ideological systems. All these experiments are under direct supervision of the central government and the two parties involved, but as the Counties they are free to operate on most issues.

Personality
WIP

How to Draw
Catsland_flag.svg
 * 1) Draw a ball,
 * 2) Draw a diagonal green line with a lighter shade of black (#008000),
 * 3) Paint the right side with the same green,
 * 4) Paint the left side with white (#FFFFFF),
 * 5) Draw a golden (#808000) stylized cat head on the upper left ( AuthLeft ) part of the image
 * 6) Draw two eyes (optional: merge one of the eyes with the cat head)
 * 7) You are done

Friends

 * [[File:Panarchy.png]] - My political parent, I am the application of your idea!
 * [[File:Technocracy.png]] - My other political ancestor, my central government is still governed in a technical, apolitical way. And I still love tech!
 * [[File:Sep.png]] - Each ideology should have their own area to develop independently of the others. Providing they are controlled by the central government, of course
 * [[File:Isolationism.png]] - Each County should be free from external influences, and the same holds true for the country.
 * [[File:Paleoegyptianism-icon.png]] - Fellow cat fan =^.^=
 * - Fellow nuclear weapons fan! You also support strong law and order, anti-communism and no external influence on the nation, my military wing really likes you!

Frenemies

 * [[File:Imperium.png]] - The idea of allowing each planet to self-govern providing they pay the Imperial Tithe and remains loyal to the God-Emperor is based, but cool down with the totalitarianism and the fanatical religion, ok?
 * [[File:Feud.png]] - Your system of suzerains and vassals is very similar to mine, but you could be more secular and more pro-tech.
 * [[File:ML.png]] - While I have lots of nuclear weapons pointed toward you, I need to admit that your "National/People's Fronts" system of multiple fake parties is a good idea.
 * [[File:Merit.png]] - We try to choose the best people for our cadre, but sometimes we need to select for ideological loyalty instead of merit...
 * [[File:Klep.png]] - Although we punish the excesses, the multilayered nature of our system sometimes open the doors for corruption and c'mon, a few deluxe prostitutes will not ruin our budget
 * [[File:Posadist.png]] - You like nuclear weapons but you are a commie. A worth foe, I guess.

Enemies

 * [[File:Dem.png]] - You pretend to allow the people to choose their government, but you force the majority's preference on the minority. And you have the spine to call me "Totalitarian"? Hypocrite!