The relatively recent advent of the Flame Printer has sparked a sudden surge in written material. Literature began to spread at an alarming rate and most of the major Attovian nations were caught off guard at first but began coming down hard on unregulated printers and libraries. In the Zyclester Empire, Ornsiire Empire, Zoher and Beleg gúl the printed word has to pass through many rules and regulations before being permitted in libraries and stores. Of course many who truly understand the value of these countless tomes find a myriad of ways around the difficulty of importing. Unfortunately for the common folk libraries have far fewer ways to obtain regulated texts. Knowledge in many places is a commodity of the wealthy still.
Claskaria and the Shen Dynasty are the only two developed nations who support public libraries almost entirely unfettered, but this has been known to change depending on the current group in power.