The Collective Combine of Commonwealths and Principalities is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Commissary General with an even hand, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, compulsory military service, and otherworldly petting zoo. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 20.693 billion Welhecwans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Algenevieve. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Welhecwan economy, worth a remarkable 6,448 trillion ₭anotes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 311,607 ₭anotes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The face of Commissary General is a permanent feature of the Algenevieve skyline, children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, the media seems excessively interested in what Commissary General is wearing this season, and Commonwealths and Principalities recently hosted the least successful trade negotiations since The Phantom Menace. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Commonwealths and Principalities's national animal is the Cormorant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cult Mechanicus.

Commonwealths and Principalities is ranked 8,940^th in the world and 13^th in The Universal Order of Nations for Most Patriotic, with 66.28 flags saluted per person per day.