The Catocracy of Catiania is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Katrina with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, soft-spoken computers, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 21.443 billion Cats 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, Welfare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Katton. The average income tax rate is 99.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Cat economy, worth a remarkable 4,516 trillion mice a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 210,612 mice, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls, hypochondriacs demand treatment for genetic disorders they don't have, a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park, and Katrina is strangely popular with male politicians' wives. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Catiania's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cat Worship.

Catiania is ranked 1,332^nd in the world and 15^th in Refugia for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 74.41 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.