The Astrocracy of Katorzet is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Chester Laipman with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 3.836 billion Katorzetans 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Archieval. The average income tax rate is 82.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Katorzetan economy, worth 490 trillion Katorzetan Credits a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 127,854 Katorzetan Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape, the new one Katorzetan Credit coin also makes a handy throwing-star, school kids who pretend to drive imaginary cars get a social worker and a police observer assigned to them, and dessert dishes make up the Katorzetan breakfast menu. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Katorzet's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Katorzet is ranked 13,250^th in the world and 289^th in the Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 353.04 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.