The Allied Huggable Fluffies of Kitabo is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Leland Gaunt with an even hand, and notable for its compulsory vegetarianism, public floggings, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, cheerful population of 46.887 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 85.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Kitaboan economy, worth a remarkable 5,069 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 108,126 quads, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nefarious Blackacrean surveillance has been replaced with patriotic Kitaboan surveillance, 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, and the Kitaboan government is the world's largest NGO. 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 2,074^th in the world and 97^th in The North Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 69.94 average smiles per day.