The Emirate of Islabad is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Emir Osama III with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, keen interest in outer space, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.75 billion Islabadians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kubal. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 21.7%.

The thriving Islabadian economy, worth 589 trillion Rials a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 76,016 Rials, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 260,793 per year while the poor average 16,262, a ratio of 16.0 to 1.

Colonial subjects have Islabadian culture shoved down their throats, the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere, Bambi has been banned, and overhead luggage compartments on planes sometimes conceal diminutive intelligence officers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Islabad's national animal is the Snow Leopard, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Violetism.

Islabad is ranked 283,576^th in the world and 88^th in Aceon for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -13 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.