The Federal Republic of New Caterse is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, keen interest in outer space, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, democratic population of 701 million Caterseans 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Port. The average income tax rate is 81.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Catersean economy, worth 60.3 trillion guilders 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 86,086 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, being Leader has been voted one of the top ten most dangerous jobs, you're never too young to learn how to lie with confidence, and New Caterse successfully hosted the the West Pacific Olympics. Crime is totally unknown. New Caterse's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Caterse is ranked 173,208^th in the world and 4,996^th in the West Pacific for Most Average, scoring 24.23 on the Average Standardized Normality Scale.