The Republic of Islavsia is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Alpha with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, strictly enforced bedtime, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 4.473 billion Islavsians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nythantium. The average income tax rate is 40.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Islavsian economy, worth 785 trillion Sins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 175,682 Sins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, it is still not known if the commander in chief outranks the supreme commander, fresh food is a thing of the past due to onerous testing standards, and psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Alpha to meetings with foreign heads of state. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Islavsia's national animal is the Sea Leviathan, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Order of Mortem.

Islavsia is ranked 8,266^th in the world and 393^rd in Osiris for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 14,432.15 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.