The Federation of Luminality is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by CatSword with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.597 billion Lumitarians 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 large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Murcar Bay. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Lumitarian economy, worth 761 trillion Baris 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 211,819 Baris, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Surveillance cameras are banned, public spending advocates dread when the government says they're here to help, seafood restaurants regularly receive complaints that the food is still moving, and court cases mostly involve lawyers shouting questions at witnesses giving silent shrugs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Luminality's national animal is the Red Panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Luminality is ranked 1,876^th in the world and 7^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 842.86 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.