The Commonwealth of Isla Remota is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Raúl Vittorio Álvarez with a fair hand, and renowned for its public floggings, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 9.814 billion Isla Remotans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Administration, Spirituality, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Puerto de Concha. The average income tax rate is 6.2%.

The very strong Isla Remotan economy, worth 690 trillion Pesos a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing. Average income is 70,352 Pesos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

People's charity begins and ends at home, atheists on vacation find Southern Roman Catholic's scriptures make useful doorstops, gay hospital patients are labelled with a pink triangle to alert staff of their substandard blood, and kids' party bags often contain candy and e-cigarettes. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Isla Remota's national animal is the Ignacio Parrot, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Southern Roman Catholic.

Isla Remota is ranked 215,577^th in the world and 13^th in Aurora for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -2.8 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.