The Allied Huggable Fluffies of Kitabo is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leland Gaunt with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, strictly enforced bedtime, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, cheerful population of 47.027 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 85.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Kitaboan economy, worth a remarkable 5,087 trillion quads a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 108,188 quads, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Odysseying merchant sailors swear that they've heard sirens in the western seas, faceless corporations are expected to assume parental responsibility over millions of teenagers, the Kitaboan government is the world's largest NGO, and military equipment is being auctioned off to extend comatose centenarians' lives. 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 266^th in the world and 12^th in The North Pacific for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 171 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.