Elizabeth is only mentioned in passing during the course of the book, but it is known that she defected from the Neo-Victorian Phyle to CryptNet, a phyle composed of programmers and hackers that control the world's computer systems. In the one scene wher e she is seen interacting with the Primer, her father says to Lord Finkle-McGraw, after punishing her for unruly behavior by depriving her of using the Primer:

"We can't let her spend her life between the covers of your magical book, Father. Its like a little interactive empire, with Elizabeth the empress, issuing all sorts of perfectly bloodcurdling decrees to her obiedient subjects. Its important to bring he r back to reality from time to time, so that she can get some perspective." (265)

Lord Finkle-McGraw first concieved the idea of the Primer to keep Elizabeth from becoming blind conformists like her parents. And she became a rebel, but not because of the Primer's affect on her, but because of the restrictive environment that her paren ts raised her in. She needed a more tangible means of rebellion than being an empress in her Primer, and so she abandoned it.

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