Location: Toronto

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The London Borough of Islington is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 3.437 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Religion & Spirituality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Upper Street London N1. The average income tax rate is 18%, but much higher for the wealthy. A substantial private sector is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture, Woodchip Exports, and Soda Sales industries.

Kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun", Leader has just been declared ruler of Islington in an international press conference, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, and elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a problem. Islington's national animal is the fish at the New River, and its currency is the Highbury Pound.

Islington is ranked 1st in Toronto and 45,404th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 20 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and