The United Kingdom of Isselmere is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by King Henry V with an even hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, complete lack of prisons, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 49.589 billion Isselmerian-Nielanders are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, with Social Policy, Defense, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Daurmont. The average income tax rate is 73.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Isselmeric-Nielandic economy, worth an astonishing 13,604 trillion crowns a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 274,352 crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political hopefuls must announce their intentions decades in advance to accommodate extensive background checks, police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, sex changes are routinely performed at Isselmere's hospitals, and taxmen are issued platinum-cap designer boots to kick bankrupted Isselmerian-Nielanders when they're down. Crime is totally unknown. Isselmere's national animal is the blue-backed erne, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Isselmere is ranked 11,738^th in the world and 3^rd in Haven for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 9,887.97 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.