The Commonwealth of Catherful is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Pieter Havkat with a fair hand, and remarkable for its digital currency, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.278 billion Catherfulians 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Catfish Keep. The average income tax rate is 72.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Catherfulian economy, worth 355 trillion guilders a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 67,310 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Large-girthed charity workers assign themselves healthy wages for their work with starving children, the only women behind bars are barmaids, fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", and business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Catherful's national animal is the catfish, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Archivalism.

Catherful is ranked 59,561^st in the world and 3,122^nd in Osiris for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,020.28 on the Gilded Widget Scale.