The Heartseeker of Catalyse is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Staryi Ulyana Avii Dragomir with an even hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, deadly medical pandemics, and soft-spoken computers. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 19.868 billion Catalysiis enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The relatively small, corrupt, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Catan. The average income tax rate is 14.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Catalysean economy, worth a remarkable 3,777 trillion thels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Retail, Soda Sales, and Gambling. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 190,142 thels, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Recognizing the Catalysean flag qualifies you for citizenship, Catalysiis no longer find themselves bumping into their exes at family gatherings, glossy adverts featuring baby's first puff adorn mothers' magazines, and it's a comma comma comma comma comma rebellion. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Catalyse's national animal is the vortex drake, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Strawberryism.

Catalyse is ranked 112,163^rd in the world and 2^nd in Ivalice for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 2,883.84 on the Hickory Productivity Index.