The Free Imperial State of Azaelya is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Vicereine Thoreau with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 16.276 billion Azaelyans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kalmia. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Azaelyan economy, worth a remarkable 3,031 trillion Gold Bars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 186,260 Gold Bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians no longer click with dating app matches, being Vicereine Thoreau has been voted one of the top ten most dangerous jobs, undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations, and the government has adopted a "Lightning Never Strikes Twice" approach to dealing with natural disasters. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Azaelya's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

Azaelya is ranked 13,634^th in the world and 1^st in The Azalean Collective for Highest Average Incomes, with 186,260.23 Standard Monetary Units.