The Carefully Watched Republic of Katitania is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Great Overlord Kat with an iron fist, and remarkable for its enslaved workforce, rampant corporate plagiarism, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.581 billion Katitanians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pizzaland. The average income tax rate is 91.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Katitanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,314 trillion Slashes 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. 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 153,163 Slashes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, government officials are phoning up good-looking celebrities to say they want to breed with them, the nation's soldiers are considered the best-dressed in 10000 Islands, and both diets and economic output are growing leaner with recent restrictions to free trade. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Katitania's national animal is the Porcupine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Katism.

Katitania is ranked 23,322^nd in the world and 267^th in 10000 Islands for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 7,414.43 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.