The Anarcho-communist state of Catistania is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by General Caticulas VI with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, enslaved workforce, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 6.824 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, although Industry, Education, and Administration are also considered important, 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 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Catistanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,834 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 268,831 Palladium claws, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

The government decides its policies by observing the flight of birds, former public radio talk pundits are being deployed to front line war zones, tourists are flocking to the newly-built MeteorLand family resort, and the nation has always been at war with Bigtopia. 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 37,555^th in the world and 704^th in The East Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4,342.53 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.