The Technocracy States of Azzarel is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Shepherd with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, zero percent divorce rate, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 14.218 billion Azzas are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Airstrip One. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Azza economy, worth a remarkable 4,517 trillion credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 317,755 credits, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,536,712 per year while the poor average 38,116, a ratio of 40.3 to 1.

Relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly, people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled, Blueriver mercenaries routinely do the army's dirty work, and proper policy proposals prerequire professional peer-reviewed papers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Azzarel's national animal is the Meerkat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Azzarel is ranked 12,366^th in the world and 288^th in The North Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 8,911.65 on the Gilded Widget Scale.