The Dragon of Wurdnya

The realm of Wurdnya had a unique currency: books. 

Wurdnyan lawmakers of the previous age had declared information supreme, books the supreme conduit of information, and henceforth books the sole means of transaction. The Wurdnyans' whole education system and societal structure was founded upon books. War, starvation, disease, and other such forms of terror did not exist within this realm. Hence, a significant amount of Wurdnyan time and energy revolved around the mind, imagination, words, information - books. 

But recently, a great fear manifested. 

Rumors echoed of a dragon not only secretly responsible for controlling the Wurdnyan bookkeepers, but also for taking some sinisterly precise percentage of these books, including all their respective copies, and hoarding them as collateral. 

The rumors kept echoing until one day, at last, the dragon revealed himself - 

and everything changed.