The Fiefdom of Pays Cathare is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, ban on automobiles, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 459 million Pays Cathareans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government prioritizes Law & Order, with Defense, Education, and Public Transport also on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 34.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Pays Catharean economy, worth 24.4 trillion Cathares a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 53,110 Cathares, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Children seem to be getting better at lying these days, Maths Professor Barbie is the most popular toy for boys and girls alike, a blood-red mark on the doorframe means a building must be passed over for destruction, and travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pays Cathare's national animal is the lamb.

Pays Cathare is ranked 248,594^th in the world and 1,213^th in Europe for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -4 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.