The District of Katherine Stuart is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by proctor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 27.797 billion Stuartians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, outspoken government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Industry, with Education also on the agenda, while Welfare and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.5%.

The thriving Katherine Stuartian economy, worth 981 trillion aurums a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Retail, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 35,305 aurums, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 102,247 per year while the poor average 9,660, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

Voting is voluntary, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, Katherine Stuart has designated District City as its capital city, and Proctor has just been declared ruler of Katherine Stuart in an international press conference. Crime is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Katherine Stuart's national animal is the bovina, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Katherine Stuart is ranked 262,112^th in the world and 1^st in Northern Territory for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 12.25 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.