The United Socialist States of Cataveir is a very large, genial nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 402 million Cataveirians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Cataveirian economy, worth 17.7 trillion francs a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 43,988 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Businesses are forced to bring all work back within the nation's borders, ride-sharing often involves some passengers sitting on the roof rack, convicted murderers are free to walk the streets provided they attend rehabilitation classes, and public transit is widely considered to be perpetrating the patriarchy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cataveir's national animal is the Crane, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cataveir is ranked 21,676^th in the world and 373^rd in The Leftist Assembly for Nicest Citizens, with 22.3 average smiles per day.