The Allied Huggable Fluffies of Kitabo is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Leland Gaunt with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 41.681 billion Kitaboans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 85.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Kitaboan economy, worth a remarkable 4,568 trillion quads a year, is extremely specialized and solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 109,617 quads, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

New funding allows inner city teachers to replace school laptops almost as fast as they get stolen, the government prides itself on being smug and condescending to idiots, autocrats are persona non grata, and internet ads promising "hot singles in your area" are even less accurate than they used to be. 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 291,700^th in the world and 6,377^th in The North Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -42.45 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.