Can you provide a character sketch of the Lilliputians from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift?

Gulliver
meets the Lilliputians during the first voyage in 's . The Lilliputians are
a tiny people, standing at about half a foot high, and their petty personalities match their
diminutive size. Swift shows the Lilliputians to be obsessed with absurd and rather meaningless
disputes, and their kingdom appears to be wracked by conflicts over trivial disagreements. For
example, Gulliver observes that a major conflict has erupted over a squabble over the proper
method of cracking open an egg. Big-enders think that it should be cracked open at the larger
end of the egg, while Little-enders think it should be cracked open at the smaller end. It goes
without saying that this disagreement is ridiculous, but it nonetheless appears to be fairly
typical for Lilliputian society.

In general, many scholars believe that
Lilliput is meant toand poke fun at the contemporary European society of Swift's day. Indeed, a
few Lilliputians are thought to be satirical counterparts of historical English politicians. As
such, by characterizing the Lilliputians as petty and small-minded people, Swift also satirizes
similar qualities in the European community in general.