The Quentibanch of Caterasia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Queen Supreme President Chief Cate with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 18.164 billion Caterasians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Equicate. The average income tax rate is 96.8%.

The all-consuming Caterasian economy, worth a remarkable 2,279 trillion Marguerites a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 125,480 Marguerites, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In musicals everybody's a little bit racist, nouveau riche farmers diligently take care of their golden calf herds, lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs, and group hugs break out during floor votes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Caterasia's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Caterasia is ranked 283,970^th in the world and 294^th in Forest for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -13.19 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.