The Allied Huggable Fluffies of Kitabo is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Leland Gaunt with a fair hand, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, anti-smoking policies, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 34.766 billion Kitaboans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 78.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Kitaboan economy, worth a remarkable 3,507 trillion quads a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 100,882 quads, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit, Violetist maidens who fall for an outsider must leave their violet light districts in shame, it takes a village to catch a criminal, and third world countries are rich in "I Love Kitabo City" t-shirts. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive. Kitabo's national animal is the likito, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kitabo is ranked 2,734^th in the world and 136^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 17,716.19 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.