How did the laputian people differ from those in most countries?

These "people" are obsessed with different past times like mathematics or magic. The upper and lower floating island are at odds with each other. The King of Laputia is petty and self-serving. He isn't interested in where Gulliver is from or the politics of England. The King is obsessed hurting the lower island. He floats his island so he is blocking out the sun of the lower island and dropping stones on them. will float his island right over their heads, blocking the sun and rain and dropping stones on them until they pay him.