when a traveller from china crashlands on mars he finds himself in a country inhabited entirely by cat people befriended by a local catman he becomes acquainted in all aspects of catlife he learns to speak felinese masters catpoetry and appreciates the narcotic effects of the reverie leaf their food staple but curiosity turns to despair when he ventures further into the heart of the country and the culture and realizes that he is witnessing the bleak decline of a civilization cat country lao shes only work of science fiction is both a dark dystopian tale of one mans close encounter with the feline kind and a scathing indictment of a country gone awry