User blog comment:Holokami/Teachings of Perfection/@comment-4867780-20170125222547/@comment-26993961-20170125231127

You've activated my trap card!

You've stumbled straight into the ambiguity I wanted to achieve with this, so it wasn't tuned to work specifically around the Ae'ani, though I think more detail is required in place. To get to your question though, the Ae'ani achieve it through unity of purpose as a species, unity of beliefs, and no infighting amongst themselves.

Their freedom comes from social freedoms, the power do to as they please within the reasonable limits of the law, and the fact they can simply have what they please without currency limiting them- all the Ae'ani live like royalty without the burdens that come with it. ^^

Except the Ae'ani "elite" that chose to take on those burdens though in the running of he empire.