The Righteous Flock of Patriotic Catholics is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Rector of the Grex with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 16.38 billion Catholic Patriots are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Holy City of St Cecilia. The average income tax rate is 85.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Patriotic Catholicsian economy, worth a remarkable 2,698 trillion Holy pound sterlings a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 164,753 Holy pound sterlings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Genetic researchers have been expelled, musicians are often arrested for saying "oh my God", smart fridges sing the praises of Catholicism for fear of being iced, and it's illegal to be caught on tape. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Patriotic Catholics's national animal is the Fish of our lord, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Patriotic Catholics is ranked 56,757^th in the world and 924^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Black Market, with 12.9 trillion Standard Monetary Units.