The Righteous Flock of Patriotic Catholics is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by The Rector of the Grex with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 19.965 billion Catholic Patriots are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Holy City of St Cecilia. The average income tax rate is 84.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Patriotic Catholicsian economy, worth a remarkable 3,841 trillion Holy pound sterlings a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 192,394 Holy pound sterlings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Relations with Merovingia are as cold as Patriotic Catholics's skill with the blade, the "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture, belligerent citizens shoot at passing clouds for 'violating their airspace', and doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Patriotic Catholics's national animal is the Fish of our lord, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Patriotic Catholics is ranked 62,453^rd in the world and 427^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Developed, scoring 73.45 on the Human Development Index.