The Emirate of Industry Book Publishing is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 5.731 billion Nerds are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, corrupt government prioritizes Industry, although Education is also considered important, while International Aid and Social Policy are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Reading economy, worth 645 trillion books a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 112,577 books, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 705,192 per year while the poor average 7,617, a ratio of 92.6 to 1.

Sweet-toothed Nerds have been left penniless by the VAT on candy, adult unemployment is rising as available jobs are filled by young children, costumed characters wearing Maxtopian Grass leaves remind citizens that the government now sells the green stuff, and illegal hunting is rife after veganism was recently made compulsory. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Industry Book Publishing's national animal is the worm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Industry Book Publishing is ranked 173,421^st in the world and 23^rd in Stats for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 579.48 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.