The Catocracy of Catiania is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Katrina with a fair hand, and renowned for its soft-spoken computers, national health service, and infamous sell-swords. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 13.427 billion Cats 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Katton. The average income tax rate is 99.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Cat economy, worth a remarkable 2,703 trillion mice a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 201,332 mice, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Toddlers are wielding machine guns in the name of national defense, refugees from other nations are flocking to Catiania's border, undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected, and disaster relief budgets are growing like wildfire. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Catiania's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cat Worship.

Catiania is ranked 220,654^th in the world and 7,416^th in The East Pacific for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides, with 1.3 Rich To Poor Income Ratio.