The Patron Librarian of Tiphereth is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Tiphereth with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 9.961 billion Tipherethians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Library. The average income tax rate is 54.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Tipherethian economy, worth 602 trillion golds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 60,496 golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage, genetic research has been halted, the nation's biggest export is stupidity, and government fact-checkers use surprising amounts of high explosive. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tiphereth's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tiphereth is ranked 303,395^th in the world and 8^th in Library of Ruina for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -13.04 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.