The District of Cathgart is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 21.65 billion Cathgartians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District City. The average income tax rate is 77.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Cathgartian economy, worth 347 trillion Juno aurums a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Gambling. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 16,064 Juno aurums, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elections have been outlawed, organ donation is compulsory, the right to free speech is being drastically curtailed, and Cathgart has designated District City as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cathgart's national animal is the quick pink fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cathgart is ranked 92,841^st in the world and 2^nd in Vaduz for Lowest Crime Rates, with 66.79 law-abiding acts per hour.