The Gate Man of Kadth is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Daral with a fair hand, and notable for its vat-grown people, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 1.616 billion Scholars are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of CCK. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Kadthian economy, worth 262 trillion Gold leaves a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 162,477 Gold leaves, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 910,363 per year while the poor average 14,388, a ratio of 63.3 to 1.

Kadthian actors literally work from cradle to grave, economists confusingly list "fusarium rot and leaf blight" as major risk factors for monetary deflation, angry men scowl at each other across chess boards, and hospitals have to sell their computers on vBay in order to afford the ransomware decryption payments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Kadth's national animal is the T-Rex, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Socialism.

Kadth is ranked 8,187^th in the world and 179^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 13,190.64 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.