The Federal Republic of Katuris is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Alfold Medtera with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, keen interest in outer space, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.679 billion Katurisians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kariburg. The average income tax rate is 90.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Katurisian economy, worth 202 trillion katuriis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 120,859 katuriis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The poor are often seen pale and dizzy after selling their blood to make ends meet, failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside, for some reason the census focuses on daily banana ingestion and hourly quip rate, and K-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Katuris's national animal is the crab, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Katurisian Violetism.

Katuris is ranked 286,814^th in the world and 1,371^st in Europe for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.49 kickbacks per hour.