There are a lot of Amentan countries. Vanda Nossëo representatives are dispatched to all of them. These Elves (two with black hair, one with silver) take a shuttle down from the lightleaper to a country called Calado, and radio ahead to request permission to land at a elegant modern spaceport.
okay by comparison Voa and Tapa look like thriving modern democracies
It's usually funded out of taxes or with support from Vanda Nossëo, which has absurd amounts of money because of selling planets and resurrections and immortality and miscellaneous other magical things. Lots of places find that they can afford it just off the savings from not having a standing army anymore and having healthcare cheaper because of magic.
Some people do that but lots of people like to do things. ...also the free money is not enough money to afford most fancy magic stuff or to afford to travel all the time to cool remote alien resorts, and on planets that aren't as nice as Casentar it's not even enough for immortality or resurrection.