The Commonwealth of Phlegmatic Idealists is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Chairman Brady with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, smutty television, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.312 billion Phlegmatics are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Phlegmatic Consciousness. The average income tax rate is 74.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Phlegmatic economy, worth 164 trillion Pretends a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 125,737 Pretends, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Billions of Pretends are spent to take high-quality photos of the Cat Nebula, the right school tie opens more doors than the right qualification, school kids who pretend to drive imaginary cars get a social worker and a police observer assigned to them, and dozens of additional foreign policy specialists have been sent to the country's WA Mission. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Phlegmatic Idealists's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Phlegmatic Idealists is ranked 246,326^th in the world and 3,738^th in The North Pacific for Fattest Citizens, with 7.57 Obesity Rate.