Miscellaneous

### 8 Legged Cats

In Catsfern, about half of all cats born in the nation are born with 8 legs, but are otherwise completely normal. Scientists don't know why this is, but the 8 legged cats are just as healthy as a normal cat and don't seem to pose any threat to the cat population, so they're not being investigated too thoroughly. What is known is that the muscle structure of an 8 legged cat is of course different than a regular cats, but other than that 8 legged and normal cats don't have any real differences.

### Dr. Tucker

Dr. Tucker is a rouge geneticist and wanted criminal known for originally creating the neko girls of Catsfern. It is theorized that Dr. Tucker has several labs hidden around Catsfern and possibly other nations around the world. At this point only two labs have been discovered. The first lab was located 35 years ago by John Henry Edens' predecessor and contained 1,000,000 original neko girl embryos. The second has been found just recently in the basement of an abandoned factory and contained 5,000,000 embryos of humanoid shape, but not exactly matching either human or neko girl embryos.These embryos have been seized by the Catsfernian government for further study and possible artificial development.

### Yogi Bear?

There have been reports for a couple years now of a highly intelligent bear trying to steal picnic baskets from families around Catsfern's Raven Rock Forest national park. Despite his affinity for petty theft, he's become almost an unofficial mascot for the Catsfernian forestry service.

## Unfortunate Policy Combinations

### Conscripting Immigrant Children

Due to Catsferns Policy combination of these policies: no immigration, native citizenship, and orphan conscription, it becomes possible for a stateless family to enter Catsfern, have a child in the nation, have the parents deported but the child kept as a citizen, and from there the child being orphaned and conscripted with no legal guardian in the nation.

## Extraterrestrial Contact

Catsfern has established a peaceful trade relationship with alien lifeforms from another planet. Currently trade is limited to foodstuffs, specifically cheese and pizza in exchange for various alien delicacys. President Eden hopes that given time and further negotiations Catsfern can trade for luxury items and advanced technology as well.

These aliens are around 7 feet tall on average, are bipedal with legs that bend like a birds, hoofed feet, dark tan or grey skin, two arms much like that of a human, two long tentacles that come out from the shoulders, heads about the same size as a bowling ball, short goat like horns, dark hair, and 6 fingered hands. They're internal biology is currently unknown but assumed to be similar to humans due to their ability to speak in human languages and eat human foods.

## Ordering Food in Catsfern

The Prevalence of vat agriculture has drastically changed the experience of ordering various sorts of food from a restaurant

### Fried Chicken

Previously ordering a 12 piece meal of fried chicken would get you a bucket of 12 differently shaped pieces actually from a chickens body like legs, wings, thighs, and breasts. After the rise of vat agriculture thorough your average 12 piece meal of fried chicken will be a cardboard box containing 12 evenly sized bricks of vat grown chicken meat, but larger brands may specialize the shape.

### Steak

Previously when ordering a steak you would have a choice of various cuts like T-bone, strip, hangar, or sirloin. After the rise of vat agriculture these options have mostly disappeared replaced by evenly shaped bricks of steak replicated in vats from these steaks and that have adopted their different tenderness and flavors. Aside from that in more expensive restaurants you can actually order custom shaped steaks.

### Chicken Nuggets

Chicken Nuggets have changed along with fried chicken. Gone are the days of ground up chicken being made into nuggets; now they are made out of vat grown chicken and typically cut into inch by inch cubes. This has actually has generally improved the quality of chicken nuggets due to them being made of generally fresh meat with less processing.

### Pork chops

Different cuts of pork have also disappeared for the most part, replaced by vat grown bricks like everything else. There isn't much variety in pork chops like there is in steaks, but sizes and shapes vary.

## National Symbols

Catsfern has many national icons aside from the neko girl. These national symbols either symbolicly represent Catsfern in some way, are unique to Catsferns culture, or were just particularly liked by the Catsfernian populace.

### National Bird: The Bearded Vulture

Catsferns national bird is the bearded vulture native to the Alpes mountains near southern Raven Rock and north Hitalia. These birds are unique for their diet which consists mostly of bone. These birds diets consists of up to 90% bond fragments. The incredible strength of both the birds beak and digestive system are respected symbols of Catsfern.

### National Flower: The Buttercup

Catsferns national flower the buttercup aka Ranunculus are yellow flowers that grow in a wide verity of environments. These flowers are beautiful but poisonous when eaten raw. These flowers serve as a symbol for Catsfern as a nation that is cultured and pretty, but dangerous when messed with.

### National Dish: Beef^3

Beef^3 or beef cubed is a result of Catsferns vat agriculture, and it is simply a cube of beef, sizes vary from place to place but they're typically 12cm cubed. They're typically slow cooked or roasted, but smaller ones can be cooked in a pan.

### National Gemston: Seraphinite

Seraphinite also known as dragon scale in Catsfern is found in some remote areas of the Vashan states of east Catsfern. The stone has been associated with the scales of mythological dragons in Catsfern. Thus they have been associated with strength and power in the nation.

## Declining Health

The health of the average Catsfernian has been going down for a while, and It's starting to become a problem the government is taking note of. The government is hoping to begin to flatline this downward trend and maybe even bring the average health up. Death rates have gone down, and average lifespan has gone up over time though, so there is a good bit of hope.