The Republic of Katmenistan is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Rose Weisberg-Talleyrand with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.908 billion Katmens 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Whisker City. The average income tax rate is 70.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Katmenian economy, worth 405 trillion paws 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 51,280 paws, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper, vaccinations are mandatory, the government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life, and the government regularly reassures citizens that there are no monsters under their beds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Katmenistan's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Kittyism.

Katmenistan is ranked 131,946^th in the world and 1,793^rd in Ambition for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 2,357.94 on the Hickory Productivity Index.