The Aquatic Librarian Knights of Tethys 13 is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by The Grand Council with an even hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, compulsory vegetarianism, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 31.753 billion Tethysi enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Education, Industry, and Administration are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atr'Lyanteth'Ys. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Tethysi economy, worth a remarkable 8,741 trillion Book-Marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 275,284 Book-Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The number of students attending university has reached a record high, one does not simply walk into the tundra, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, and the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Atr'Lyanteth'Ys Times is sold out. Crime is totally unknown. Tethys 13's national animal is the Feathered Eel, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Necronomiconianism.

Tethys 13 is ranked 287,446^th in the world and 10,833^rd in Osiris for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -17.26 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.