The Community of United Islasca is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Princess Emmaline with an even hand, and notable for its prohibition of alcohol, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 14.407 billion Islascans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hala. The average income tax rate is 68.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient United Islascan economy, worth a remarkable 2,763 trillion Flowers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Retail, Information Technology, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 191,842 Flowers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Broken suspension systems are giving auto repair shops plenty of business, parents live in fear of governmental 'child protection' squads, the comic book series 'Princess Emmaline and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller, and 42 is the answer to life the universe and the new bus route into Hala. Crime is pervasive. United Islasca's national animal is the Butterfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Dreamtime.

United Islasca is ranked 206,095^th in the world and 14^th in Caer Sidi for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -1.98 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.