The People-State of Kulgatha is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Vorn Hagen with a fair hand, and renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, sprawling nuclear power plants, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 3.92 billion Kulgathans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large government prioritizes Education, with Healthcare, Administration, and Defense also on the agenda, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dorn. The average income tax rate is 83.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Kulgathan economy, worth 465 trillion narathems a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 118,698 narathems, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crossword puzzles have been co-opted as a symbol of racial discrimination, the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles, there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, and Dorn's main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kulgatha's national animal is the house centipede, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Eastern Pietist Imperial Catholicism.

Kulgatha is ranked 22,256^th in the world and 890^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 3,973.83 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.