The Empire of Philaria is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate population of 323 million Philarians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 46.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Philarian economy, worth 21.2 trillion Phillars a year, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 65,785 Phillars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts, the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster, the government violently suppresses separatist movements, and hiding wrinkles with make-up is illegal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Philaria's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Philaria is ranked 82,118^th in the world and 988^th in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,665.41 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.