The United Socialist States of Catilantha is a huge, genial nation, notable for its frequent executions, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 502 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 Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Encemond. The average income tax rate is 60.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Catilanthan economy, worth 15.2 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 significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 30,207 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Catilantha's soft-touch approach to diplomacy has made it known as the 'push-over' of the region, public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, the aims of top-secret Catilanthan science projects revolve around designing the perfect robot woman, and feuilletons can only be deciphered with a Galliennais dictionary. 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 27,687^th in the world and 638^th in the South Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 20.7 average smiles per day.