The Free Cities of Kautas is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by First Arbiter Cael Virex with an even hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, sprawling nuclear power plants, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cheerful population of 9.998 billion Kautasians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, although Administration, Environment, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality and Defense aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aureaxis. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Kautasian economy, worth a remarkable 2,178 trillion Lumens a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 217,931 Lumens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Legal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on, ministers are now allowed to put suggestions in the governmental suggestion box, brain-freeze has taken on a new meaning, and the mob and the police have recently had numerous clashes in the back alleys of Kautas's cities due to the government's steadfast anti-casino stance. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kautas's national animal is the Gargyl, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Lux Communis.

Kautas is ranked 65,675^th in the world and 50^th in Fifth Empire for Largest Populations, with 10.00 billion capita.