The Federal Republic of Cahaya is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, soft-spoken computers, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 291 million Cahayans 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, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rajawali. The average income tax rate is 70.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Cahayan economy, worth 20.9 trillion kupangs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 71,675 kupangs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery, undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected, escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, and maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cahaya's national animal is the mousedeer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cahaya is ranked 23,074^th in the world and 21^st in Talonia for Safest, scoring 112.33 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.