The People's Republic of Katroiastan is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic population of 566 million Katroiastanians 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, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 71.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Katroiastanian economy, worth 9.99 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Information Technology. Average income is 17,642 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sleazy politicians exploit the Parliamentary Code of Conduct to purge their rivals, small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome, the government has adopted a more thrifty attitude to administrating the country's needs, and grannies get pulled over for knitting pullovers while driving. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Katroiastan's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Katroiastan is ranked 39,035^th in the world and 656^th in The Communist Bloc for Healthiest Citizens, with 6.85 bananas ingested per day.