The Free Land of Booksellers is a colossal, socially progressive nation, renowned for its suspicion of poets. The hard-working population of 4.579 billion Booksellersians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The tiny, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.4%.

The very strong Booksellersian economy, worth 301 trillion Dewey Decimals a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Gambling, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 65,872 Dewey Decimals, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 218,433 per year while the poor average 14,829, a ratio of 14.7 to 1.

The army lures cannon fodder with promises of a college education, chrome-clad space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on, the best doughnut stores have been taken over by foreign police officers, and Mr Happy's Funland has just been named Booksellers's new capital. Crime is moderate, probably because of the absence of a police force. Booksellers's national animal is the Book Worm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Booksellers is ranked 111,020^th in the world and 21^st in Hurricane 12 for Highest Average Incomes, with 65,872.96 Standard Monetary Units.