The Citizen's Republic of New Islington is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Dylan Stark with an even hand, and renowned for its smutty television, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate population of 3.565 billion Islingtonians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hower City. The average income tax rate is 96.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Islingtonian economy, worth 501 trillion Florins a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 140,638 Florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Engineers ask liberal arts majors "Do you want fries with that?", the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen, bad punctuation has come to a full stop, and mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Islington's national animal is the Dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Folk Religion.

New Islington is ranked 5,257^th in the world and 42^nd in Europeia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 115.33 law-abiding acts per hour.