The United Socialist States of Catilantha is a very large, genial nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, complete lack of prisons, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 445 million Catilanthans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Encemond. The average income tax rate is 60.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Catilanthan economy, worth 13.4 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 30,207 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Catilantha's soft-touch approach to diplomacy has made it known as the 'push-over' of the region, public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, the aims of top-secret Catilanthan science projects revolve around designing the perfect robot woman, and feuilletons can only be deciphered with a Galliennais dictionary. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Catilantha's national animal is the grizzly bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Catilantha is ranked 115,048^th in the world and 1,511^th in the South Pacific for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 1,543.39 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.