The Allied Huggable Fluffies of Kitabo is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Leland Gaunt with a fair hand, and renowned for its smutty television, anti-smoking policies, and complete absence of social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 33.382 billion Kitaboans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 75.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Kitaboan economy, worth a remarkable 3,301 trillion quads a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,889 quads, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions, Kitabo City Preparatory School for the Exceedingly Wealthy's basketball team is having a few off-years, engineers ask liberal arts majors "Do you want fries with that?", and posters on 'Kitaboan Values' advise against being proud of Kitabo. 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 139,526^th in the world and 6,324^th in The North Pacific for Most Pro-Market, scoring 33.44 on the Rand Index.