The Federation of Author-Ity is a large, genial nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, compulsory military service, and smutty television. The compassionate population of 111 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, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 74.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Authorian economy, worth 5.96 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 Trout Farming, Pizza Delivery, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 53,715 argencharneys, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome, school plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment, graffiti graces every city's streets, and evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right. 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 93,652^nd in the world and 285^th in Horizon for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 3,134.37 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.