The National Cat Society is the alliance between four clowders to come together under one governing body. The clowders are governed by two leaders and eight deputies, each of which are elected to their position every year. The Society has a total of 60 cats (not including Hyena Stripes) across the four clowders.

The Society sees a range of climates and geographies, from the chilly clowder of Show to the forested clowders of Sap and Strangers, all the way to the grasslands of Sprout. Common prey varies between clowders, but mice are found in all, and frogs and fish can be found among the River of Stars, which lays between all the clowders.

Kitties of Democracy

Here in the National Cat Society we practice what you humans would call a mix of direct and representative democracy. We use the Single Transferable Vote (proportional ranked choice voting) under the Wright system to elect leaders and deputies, and every cat 1 year or older can vote. The leaders come up with issues that they both must agree to pass down to the deputies. The deputies come up with solutions to the issues, and then they pass the solutions down to the cats of the clowders to vote on. Cats vote on solutions and issues once a month at the gathering depending on how they're sorted. (Note: The deputies and leaders still live in their clowders and meet as needed to solve issues. They often ask a cat from their clowder to run to the other clowders and call for a meeting. There is no white house. There is no house. We are cats.)

Issues are put into three groups, dangerous issues, overall issues, and singular issues. Overall issues effect all the clowders, meanwhile singular issues only effect one clowder; however, both issues are voted on at gatherings. Dangerous issues are issues that cause immediate deadly danger to cats’ lives, and they are sent to the deputies to come up with a solution as quickly as possible. The deputies' page and the leaders' page go more in depth on our government.

Economy

Us cats do not have an economy or currency in humans traditional sense, however, we do trade prey amongst each other. I suppose you would call it a barter economy, or a natural economy. The economy typically worsens in the winter, and strengthens in the spring and summer (when prey is scarcer or when it's plentiful). During winter months (or any time, but assumedly winter), if one clowder where to suffer from starvation, there is an agreement that if a clowder has more prey than they need, then they will give the extra to the worse off clowder.