The Aquatic Veritocracy of Tethys 13 is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Empiric Maud'Llin with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 37.017 billion Tethysi enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized, liberal government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Education, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Atr'Lyanteth'Ys. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Tethysi economy, worth an astonishing 10,373 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 280,236 Book-Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Moles make up an incredible part of the upper crust, national foreign policy involves significant amounts of hand wringing, entomologists flock to New Atr'Lyanteth'Ys for its remarkable gadfly population, and unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police. Crime is totally unknown. Tethys 13's national animal is the Sea Butterfly, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is The Story.

Tethys 13 is ranked 10,455^th in the world and 387^th in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 105.72 law-abiding acts per hour.