The Citizen's Republic of New Islington is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Dylan Stark with an even hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, digital currency, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cheerful population of 3.638 billion Islingtonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hower City. The average income tax rate is 96.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Islingtonian economy, worth 517 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 142,288 Florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Almost all products in New Islington are hand-crafted due to strict employment laws, foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that New Islington will pay them to stop, the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in New Islington, and multiple polls have christened the newly-formed Filibuster Committee as "the least efficient government bureaucracy". 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 290,080^th in the world and 1,305^th in Europeia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -32.34 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.