The Federal Republic of Catineri is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Gina Schiavone with an even hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.002 billion Catinerians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nuu-Catinara. The average income tax rate is 96.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Catinerian economy, worth 498 trillion Cetas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 165,925 Cetas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose, black gold is looking more brown these days, military equipment stores have a tendency to go up in flames, and the nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Catineri's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Anarcho-Mao-Leninist Orthodox Communism.

Catineri is ranked 4,708^th in the world and 40^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 6,568.45 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.