The Federation of Author-Ity is a mid-sized, genial nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 86 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 74.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Authorian economy, worth 3.99 trillion argencharneys a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Pizza Delivery, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 46,392 argencharneys, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway, photographers can be found hiding behind the curtains in Leader's bedroom, all telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons', and weekly religious services often resemble campaign rallies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Author-Ity's national animal is the huntsman spider, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Author-Ity is ranked 51,556^th in the world and 48^th in Horizon for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 178.06 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.