The Citizen's Republic of New Islington is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Dylan Stark with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, pith helmet sales, and anti-smoking policies. 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 140,666 Florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

New government leaflets tell coeliac children to eat more crisps, there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees, trains and passengers alike are often late, and families are left homeless as entire suburbs are bulldozed on the whim of tribal chiefs. 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 5,256^th in the world and 42^nd in Europeia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 115.53 law-abiding acts per hour.