The Anarcho-communist state of Catistania is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by General Caticulas VI with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 6.771 billion Catistanians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while Welfare isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Neko city. The average income tax rate is 69.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Catistanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,807 trillion Palladium claws 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Soda Sales. 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 an amazing 267,009 Palladium claws, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

The navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust, the government decides its policies by observing the flight of birds, former public radio talk pundits are being deployed to front line war zones, and tourists are flocking to the newly-built MeteorLand family resort. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Catistania's national animal is the Catistanian neko, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Potatoism.

Catistania is ranked 291,693^rd in the world and 5,268^th in The East Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 15.97 law-abiding acts per hour.