The Vanguard State of Al-Aezam is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Ra'īs Kourosh Rasul with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, smutty television, and vat-grown people. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 11.7 billion Al-Aezamis 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 medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Markaz. The average income tax rate is 96.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Al-Aezami economy, worth a remarkable 3,670 trillion Al-Aezami Dinars 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 black market in Information Technology and Tourism. 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 amazing 313,756 Al-Aezami Dinars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is avowedly secular, major cities are suffering under water rationing, convicted crypto-miners are sent to the salt mines, and handling people's data is proving an immersive experience. Crime is totally unknown. Al-Aezam's national animal is the lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Islam.

Al-Aezam is ranked 274,426^th in the world and 192^nd in The Internationale for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -22.98 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.