The Aquatic Librarian Knights of Tethys 13 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Grand Council with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, smutty television, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 36.479 billion Tethysi have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

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 an astonishing 10,170 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 278,805 Book-Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is proudly free of crabs, no one questions why the chicken crossed the road anymore, people with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia faint upon diagnosis, and lobotomies haven't been the same after the practice was severed. 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 2,105^th in the world and 78^th in Osiris for Highest Food Quality, scoring 270.49 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.