The Free Cities of Kautas is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by First Arbiter Cael Virex with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cheerful population of 10.085 billion Kautasians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government prioritizes Education, with Administration, Environment, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Defense are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aureaxis. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Kautasian economy, worth a remarkable 2,228 trillion Lumens a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 220,979 Lumens, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Replacement organs are grown in vats, the economy is booming loud enough to drown out the cries of its digital labour, private digital records now come with a convenient "download" button, and betting pennies on games of Go Fish is considered deviant. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable 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 2,840^th in the world and 2^nd in Fifth Empire for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 101.06 on the Kitten Softness Rating.