The Globalist Kingdom of Imperial Catorianis is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Mikhail III Romanov-Holstein of Gottorp with an iron fist, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, digital currency, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.875 billion Petrograders are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Petrograd. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Imperial Catorianisian economy, worth a remarkable 1,418 trillion Vanrovers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 241,480 Vanrovers, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 791,913 per year while the poor average 55,264, a ratio of 14.3 to 1.

The government's approval ratings go down while its turnover rate goes up, would-be crossers of the class divide find the social ladder is well-lubricated, the word "mother" is the favourite punchline of ribald comics, and people with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia faint upon diagnosis. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Imperial Catorianis's national animal is the Golden Double-headed Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Christianity.

Imperial Catorianis is ranked 50,144^th in the world and 33^rd in The Global Elite for Highest Poor Incomes, with 55,264.18 Standard Monetary Units.