The Dominion of The Bookkeeper is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by The Librarian with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, public floggings, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 24.251 billion Keepers are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eyeglasses. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.4%.

The very strong Bookkeeperian economy, worth a remarkable 1,691 trillion Pens a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Average income is 69,758 Pens, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 218,076 per year while the poor average 17,121, a ratio of 12.7 to 1.

Sex offenders find themselves cut off from the ability to repeat their crimes, Christianity has been named as The Bookkeeper's national religion, the average cargo freighter spends more than half its service life undergoing safety inspections, and urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force. The Bookkeeper's national animal is the Siver Fish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Christianity.

The Bookkeeper is ranked 159,806^th in the world and 5^th in The Cemetery for Safest, scoring 57.8 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.