The Heartseeker of Catalyse is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Staryi Ulyana Avii Dragomir with an even hand, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, feral children, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 20.1 billion Catalysiis enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The relatively small, corrupt, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Catan. The average income tax rate is 14.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Catalysean economy, worth a remarkable 3,810 trillion thels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Retail, Soda Sales, and Gambling. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 189,561 thels, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Catalysiis no longer find themselves bumping into their exes at family gatherings, glossy adverts featuring baby's first puff adorn mothers' magazines, it's a comma comma comma comma comma rebellion, and foreigners must sell an arm and a leg to afford surgery in Catalyse. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Catalyse's national animal is the vortex drake, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Strawberryism.

Catalyse is ranked 9,723^rd in the world and 1^st in Ivalice for Most Cultured, scoring 119 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.