The Aquatic Veritocracy of Tethys 13 is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Empiric Maud'Llin with an even hand, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, smutty television, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 36.935 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 10,348 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 280,194 Book-Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Stocks go up when the internet says so, moles make up an incredible part of the upper crust, national foreign policy involves significant amounts of hand wringing, and entomologists flock to New Atr'Lyanteth'Ys for its remarkable gadfly population. 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 119,604^th in the world and 6,083^rd in Osiris for Largest Black Market, with 1.82 trillion Standard Monetary Units.