Empire of Cats

The **Empire of Cats** is a worldwide kingdom based on absolute monarchy of Divine Right with 2 Queens and exclusively composed of cats. It claims to be the true superpower that rule the world and controls the totality of its geopolitics.

The empire reunites all the cats that exist, including their Yōma counterparts and has its own army, culture, and religion.

## Politics

The current Queens are Michonne and Victoria, a tabby grey and white tuxedo cat and a grey spotted white cat, and they are sisters. As Queens they have all the powers and their decisions have value of law and any  harm to them is considered a crime of lèse majesté that can be punished with incarceration or death. They are guarded by the  Royal Guard.

However, the Queens' authority and autocratic power is made up by the cats' general independence and low will on dominating their kind. They also don't have a real centralized power, the empire is divided into multitudes of territories ruled each by a Lord, a cat that rule the others in a place like a house, thus ruling a household of cats. There is no cat domain that cover an entire region, the size of a small town is the maximum size.

In order to represent them to the Queens, Lords elect Barons that represent 5 territories at the elections for a Count that represent 5 Barons. Counts themselves elect Marquis that represent 5 Counts and who elect Dukes that represent 5 Marquis, and Dukes finally elect Grand Dukes that represent 5 of them. For example, if there is 2 Grand Dukes it means that there is 10 Dukes, 50 Marquis, 250 Counts, 1 250 Barons and 6 250 Lords.

Thus, this decentralized power gives autonomy and quite freedom despite the Queens' importance, and what is really forbidden is to insult or harm the Royalty. The most spread religion is Catism, and the Royal Anthem is called *Rule, Cats!*.

Humans and Yōma are seen in the empires in an ambiguous manner. They're by default seen both as essential allies at best, their slaves commonly, or an invader that claims to own their territory. Anyways, all non-cat species are considered inferior to cats without much distinction.

## Military

Cats can't wield firearms, thus, they use reinforced claws and their mobility at their advantage. At least 25% of the cats are part of the army.

### **Royal Guard**

The cats' royal guard is a special force travelling with the Queens and charged of their protection. They are Norvegian Forest Cats and Maine Coons with bearskin hat, and steel claws to cover their normal ones. They are the elite forces, the strongest and fastest of the cats, and is reputed to be mostly bullet-proof (limited to small calibers).

### **Line Cats**

They are the regular versions of the Guard, they're variably strong and fast, and charge their enemies in lines. They have iron and steel claws, and wear shako hat.

## Religion

Catism is the monotheistic institutional and most spread religion of the Empire. Even through not mandatory, it is the one religion which impose the legitimacy of the Queens as rulers of the Empire and the World, and the Genesis  is the most important chapter of its mythology, and is at the origin of Cat supremacism, even if like every religious books the story is fictional.

### Genesis

To sum up the Genesis, it is said God has created the world and life in 7 days, created both the female and male cat in its image, they were big and bipedal. It also created a stream with holy fish that can give knowledge. God defended the cats to eat these fishes yet as it still has to create a point for them.

In order to assist the  cats while they wait, God has taken a rib from a male cat and one from a female cat and created the Man and the Woman, the human, that were designed to be their loyal servant, giving them food and affection.

However, an Angel that betrayed God took the appeareance of a dog and tempted the human to consume a divine fish. They noticed they were servants and naked, rebelled against  the  cats and hid in bushes. God, omniscious, asked them why they were hiding, and upon guessing the reasons, gave many disadvantages to the Human, created hate and death among them, and made them variably dumb.

Disappointed from the turn of events and the fact that Humans are autonomous and not going to recognize the cat as the ruler, God made the specy more discreet, smaller and made them quadipedal to mix  with other animals while ruling from the shadows.

## Anthem

*Rule, Cats!* is the Royal Anthem of the empire, humans capable of talking with cats claim that it is inspired by *Rule, Britannia!*, but cats affirm it's the other way around.

**First verses and chorus.**

*When cats first, at Heaven's command*

*Arose form out the azure main;*

*Arose, arose from out the azura main;*

*This was the charter, the charter of the world,*

*And guardian angels sang this strain:*

*Rule, cats! Cats rule the world!*

*Cats always, always, always shall be masters!*

*Rule, cats! Cats rule the world!*

*Cats always, always, always shall be masters!*

*Still more majestic than shall thu rise,*

*More prideful from each inner stroke,*

*More prideful, more prideful from each inner stroke,*

*As the shiny claws, the claws that tears the skies,*

*Serves but to harden thy majestic cushion.*