The United Socialist States of Catilantha is a very large, safe nation, notable for its frequent executions, complete lack of prisons, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 249 million Catilanthans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 60.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Catilanthan economy, worth 7.55 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 30,309 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Some electoral districts are without a representative as they are stuck with perpetual revotes, the national census includes an opt-in to join the government-run dating service, the government regularly reassures citizens that there are no monsters under their beds, and the nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Catilantha's national animal is the grizzly bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Catilantha is ranked 270,798^th in the world and 3,442^nd in the South Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 50.75 on the Human Development Index.