The Republic of Lux Cathia is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by The President with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, absence of drug laws, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.345 billion Lux Cathians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cathix. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Lux Cathian economy, worth 355 trillion Daks a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 151,795 Daks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sullen teenagers in bright orange 'community payback' onesies can be seen picking litter at the roadside, wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations", people can't decide between preserving forests and buying print copies of 'Dogman Versus The Giggler', and solving crossword puzzles requires fluency in at least five languages. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lux Cathia's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Lux Cathia is ranked 9,897^th in the world and 540^th in The North Pacific for Least Corrupt Governments, with 94.43 Percentage Of Bribes Refused.