The Bibliotheka of Alethean is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The democratic population of 35.27 billion Aletheanians 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 large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 53.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient Aletheanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,381 trillion words a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 39,167 words, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper, the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime is totally unknown. Alethean's national animal is the gargoyle, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Alethean is ranked 155,833^rd in the world and 69^th in Equilism for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 862.16 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.