The Anarcho-communist state of Catistania is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by General Caticulas VI with an iron fist, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, compulsory military service, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 6.93 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, with Education, Industry, and Administration also on the agenda, while Welfare is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Neko city. The average income tax rate is 70.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Catistanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,836 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 264,977 Palladium claws, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

The nation has always been at war with Bigtopia, the military refers to helpless combatants offering surrender as "sitting ducks", airplanes have giant grilles on their noses to knock drones out of their path, and criminal rehabilitation takes place in re-education centers. 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 13,525^th in the world and 293^rd in The East Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 348.46 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.