The Community of The Hidden Library is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, free-roaming dinosaurs, and absence of drug laws. The hard-working, devout population of 666 million Hidden Librarians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The tiny, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Spirituality, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.8%.

The strong Hidden Library economy, worth 40.0 trillion newly written books a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 59,990 newly written books, with the richest citizens earning 7.0 times as much as the poorest.

Pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, perverts across the land rejoice after 'sexual harassment' was recently renamed 'persuasive courting', code enforcement officers circle wealthy Hidden Librarians like vultures, and the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The The Hidden Library City Times is sold out. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Hidden Library's national animal is the bookworm.

The Hidden Library is ranked 124,989^th in the world and 1^st in A Postapocalyptic World for Smartest Citizens, with 33.05 quips per hour.