The Republic of Katinoj is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 664 million Katinojs are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 44.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Katinojian economy, worth 34.8 trillion marks a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 52,340 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign ambassadors closely guard their culinary secrets, the government has adopted a more thrifty attitude to administrating the country's needs, the newest shade developed by Katinoj's dye industry has been dubbed 'Agent Orange', and grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them. Crime is totally unknown. Katinoj's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Katinoj is ranked 82,156^th in the world and 1,304^th in The North Pacific for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring 2,544.9 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.