The Republic of Phydios is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Ross with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 25.954 billion Phydiosians 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 medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sula. The average income tax rate is 68.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Phydiosian economy, worth a remarkable 4,074 trillion quinoes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 156,973 quinoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Potatoes are known for their lead aftertaste, the cruise missile launchers on the field hospital roof are purely deterrent in purpose, homeless people dying of starvation are thought to be a necessary cost of preventing terrorism, and the law is more interested in punishing crime than preventing it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Phydios's national animal is the jaguar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Phydios is ranked 212,754^th in the world and 38^th in Right to Life for Most Conservative, scoring 48 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.