The Community of Free Librarians is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 814 million Librarians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 69.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Free economy, worth 12.5 trillion watermelons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 15,329 watermelons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year, hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", and guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Free Librarians's national animal is the book, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Free Librarians is ranked 162,417^th in the world and 293^rd in Refugia for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 460.82 on the Gilded Widget Scale.