The Queendom of Isla Byron is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Victoria T'velas with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.251 billion Isla Byronistas 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 government prioritizes Defense, with Industry, Administration, and Education also on the agenda, while Environment and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Isla Wager. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 54.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Isla Byronian economy, worth a remarkable 1,836 trillion Isla Byron Pesos a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Information Technology, and Gambling. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 349,730 Isla Byron Pesos, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,647,674 per year while the poor average 44,078, a ratio of 37.4 to 1.

Visiting dignitaries often end up cuddling in the hot tub with Victoria T'velas, finders keepers is the law of the land, patch v22.1705 - all developers are now paid for work, and supermarket milk is a shear-thickening fluid that can stop small-caliber bullets. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Isla Byron's national animal is the güiña, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is sapphomaxxing.

Isla Byron is ranked 16,419^th in the world and 1^st in Lesbian for Smartest Citizens, with 74.72 quips per hour.