The United Democratic Republic of Nvoda is a massive, genial nation, ruled by President Joseph Kennedy with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.416 billion Nvodans 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Catopolis. The average income tax rate is 80.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nvodan economy, worth 175 trillion Catdollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 123,906 Catdollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens know never to accept cookies from strangers, years of counter-terrorism planning are foiled by small details, access to the woods is only granted to those who bring a small shrubbery, and living well is no longer the best kind of revenge. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nvoda's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secularism.

Nvoda is ranked 245,493^rd in the world and 3^rd in Feline Axis for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 23,789.96 Standard Monetary Units.