The People's Republic of Phaiil is a large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic population of 118 million Phaiilians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 15.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Phaiilian economy, worth 4.70 trillion marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 39,826 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away, parking lots are littered with coffee cups and doughnut crumbs, families returning from international vacations are unable to get their children back into the country, and mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights. Crime is totally unknown. Phaiil's national animal is the falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Phaiil is ranked 257,177^th in the world and 3,673^rd in The East Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 62 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.