The Heroes of Catradora- is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Glimmer with an iron fist, and remarkable for its vat-grown people, state-planned economy, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.794 billion Catradora-ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Etheria. The average income tax rate is 60.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Catradora-ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,395 trillion marks 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 Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, 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 an impressive 179,098 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Troublemakers just happen to be reassigned to distant mining operations, suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence, most of the military's funding goes into researching space-age weaponry, and garbage bags floating down the river are churned up by man-made rapids. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Catradora-'s national animal is the cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Cards.

Catradora- is ranked 283,554^th in the world and 23^rd in Temporary Home for Highest Food Quality, scoring 5.15 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.