The Practically Dead Nation of Cataleenia is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Lord Cat III with a fair hand, and notable for its national health service, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 9.794 billion Catalеns 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, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cataladon. The average income tax rate is 92.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Catalеn economy, worth a remarkable 1,224 trillion Catans 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 125,036 Catans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, government bureaucrats devote many man-hours to trying to measure unquantifiables, things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication, and retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites. Crime is totally unknown. Cataleenia's national animal is the Winged Cats, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Cataleenia is ranked 15,210^th in the world and 1^st in Catalen Mountain for Nudest, with 220.5 cheeks per square mile.