An artist's representation of a Nuhtbee city

Nuhtbee Collective is one of the oldest communities on the planet who live on the secluded Nuht Island. They maintain an extreme communal lifestyle and refer to each other with the same name of Nuht. The only differentiation made to a person is to add their profession in front of Nuht: Painter Nuht, Baker Nuht.

Nuhtbee maintain a strong identity linked to the nature of the Nuht Island and organize themselves into groups based on affinity to a certain element of nature, like Tree Group, Grass Group, etc. In spite of that, nuhtbee society is incredibly technologically advanced, and their everyday lives are run by robots to an extent beyond compare. Nuhtbee are at the same time very secretive about their technology and do not share it with the outsiders.

The structure of their society is nonhierarchical in nature, which makes a lot of things surprising to an outside observer. For instance, nuhtbee have no capital city. Each city tends to duplicate the infrastructure and functions, which exist in other cities, which gives all of them a very similar look and feel.

The Collective is formally governed by a despot ruler Shaobee, who is a superhero warrior. However, her relationship with the populace she allegedly rules is inconsistent: she is admired as a warrior, but largely ignored as a ruler, due to the deeply decentralized nature of nuhtbee society. In response to that Shaobee has implemented an authoritarian style of governing, but the effectiveness of her turn to despotism ruling style is disputed among scholars.