Folders v Catalogs

Hi All,
I am having a few problems with folders and catalogs.
i have a client who is needing a website in different languages.
www.the-domain.com is owned by them...
I want to be able to have a folder called UK but I also want a catalogue called UK as there are some products which only belong to the UK region.
The idea is this folder setup: UK /About-Us
                                                   /Resources
                                                    /News
Then I have this catalogue setup UK/
                                                            cars/
                                                                      ford
The reason for this is so if the user looks at the URL and is looking at a product, the URL displayed is correct to the language they have chosen regardless of whether they are viewing a product or a static page.
Surely it would make sense that when you create a catalogue you can have the option to create a folder? and then within this folder you can have sub fodlers?
Can someone please help?
Many Thanks

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