TITLE: Are there any nontrivial abelian categories with only finitely many objects?
QUESTION [35 upvotes]: The title says pretty much what I want. Of course, the abelian categories should contain at least one nonzero object. 
In particular, is there an abelian category containing only one nonzero object? On the one hand, this is equivalent to construct a ring which is the endomorphism of the nonzero object. On the other hand, this is equivalent to construct a special module by Freyd–Mitchell theorem.
This seems silly for that's not what abelian category is invented for, but I really want to know the answer.

REPLY [55 votes]: Take the category of (at most) countable-dimensional vector spaces over your favourite field. Then take the quotient by the Serre subcategory of finite-dimensional vector spaces. (And take a skeletal subcategory so that it strictly has only two objects.)
Then this is an abelian category with only one non-zero object, whose endomorphism ring is the endomorphism ring of a countable-dimensional vector space, localized at the set of endomorphisms with finite-dimensional kernel and cokernel.