The Desert Empire of The Azalea Princess is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Retsu Raoh with an iron fist, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, triple-decker prams, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.085 billion Azaleans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Whirl's End. The average income tax rate is 82.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Princess economy, worth 662 trillion endoes 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, quite specialized black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. 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 130,352 endoes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Only those who apply can study applied maths, young girls often attend the same schools as their children, Retsu Raoh's new door-knocking campaign has the sweet taste of success, and the most commonly-worn shoes are concrete ones. Crime is well under control, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Azalea Princess's national animal is the honeybee, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Floriculture.

The Azalea Princess is ranked 253,559^th in the world and 9,112^th in Osiris for Fattest Citizens, with 7.28 Obesity Rate.