The Federal Republic of Katuris is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Alfold Medtera with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.651 billion Katurisians 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kariburg. The average income tax rate is 90.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Katurisian economy, worth 197 trillion katuriis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 119,909 katuriis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Group photos of the members of parliament are often mistaken for family reunions, tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread, high school band practice is often crashed by technicolor-clad ravers, and there is a heavy social stigma attached to e-cigarettes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Katuris's national animal is the crab, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Katurisian Violetism.

Katuris is ranked 10,355^th in the world and 165^th in Europe for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 11,005.54 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.