In Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, what are the Lilliputians like as a race?

The Lilliputians are pretty brave.  Considering that they are, at most, only about six inches high and Gulliver is some six feet tall, the fact that they are willing to take him on and even explore his person is surprising.  Gulliver remarks on the "Intrepidity of these diminutive Mortals, who durst venture to mount and walk on my Body, while one of my Hands was a Liberty, without trembling at the very Sight of so prodigious a Creature as I must appear to them."  Thus, he's pretty impressed that they are capable of summoning the courage to walk around on him, especially considering that one of his hands is free.  They seem totally unafraid despite the fact that he could squash them!

They are practical, even somewhat cold, as a people.  Gulliver says, "Sometimes they determined to starve me, or at least to shoot me in the Face and Hands with poisoned Arrows, which would soon dispatch me: But again they considered, that the Stench of so large a Carcase might produce a Plague in the Metropolis [...]."  Once they realize how expensive it will be to sustain Gulliver and the possibility that he could break loose and really do harm to them, they strongly consider killing him.  However, they are intelligent and practical enough to realize that getting rid of his body would prove to be a really difficult, perhaps even dangerous, task.

The Lilliputians are somewhat small (pun intended).  They are unkind to one another and squabble over basic ways of life.  For example, some "eleven Thousand Persons have, at several Times, suffered Death, rather than submit to break their Eggs at the smaller End."  The Lilliputians argue over whether they ought to break their eggs at the larger end or the smaller end, and they actually fight wars over this.  Such an argument, especially over something so inconsequential, makes them seem incredibly petty and even officious.  Why should they care what side of the egg someone cracks?  Even Gulliver, not-very-smart-Gulliver, thinks it is best "left to every Man's Conscience" which side of the egg he cracks.