The Protectorate of Collective Individualism is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Protector with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 1.747 billion Collective Individualists are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hive City. The average income tax rate is 81.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Collective Individual economy, worth 161 trillion Favors a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming. Average income is 92,161 Favors, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cogitators and mass debaters are skiving off work to hang around the National Symposium Park, most pop videos prominently feature the Collective Individual flag, crackheads chase drug-loaded drones in hopes of a lucky drop, and sleeping on the job is recommended. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Collective Individualism's national animal is the The Other, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Collective Individualism is ranked 188,530^th in the world and 3,790^th in The East Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 35.3 billion Standard Monetary Units.