The Federation of Author-Ity is a very large, genial nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, frequent executions, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 214 million Authors are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government prioritizes Education, with Welfare, Defense, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality receives no funds. The average income tax rate is 75.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Authorian economy, worth 16.1 trillion argencharneys a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 75,066 argencharneys, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fire stations and hospitals can't deploy emergency vehicles because badly parked cars block them in, the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?", court verdicts are predictable to within a hundredth of a percentage point, and the bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around Author-Ity City. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Author-Ity's national animal is the huntsman spider.

Author-Ity is ranked 103,998^th in the world and 153^rd in Horizon for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 2,523.18 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.