The Grand Archive of Pageturner is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Librarian with a fair hand, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. The democratic population of 4.737 billion librarians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alexandria. The average income tax rate is 51.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped literate economy, worth 130 trillion library cards a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Soda Sales, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 27,456 library cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, Pageturner has designated Alexandria as its capital city, The Librarian has just been declared ruler of Pageturner in an international press conference, and some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pageturner's national animal is the bookworm.

Pageturner is ranked 303,217^th in the world and 2^nd in Library for Most Developed, scoring 49.23 on the Human Development Index.