The People's Republic of Azend is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 870 million Azendians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 71.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Azendian economy, worth 56.2 trillion rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 64,548 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate, meat-eating is frowned upon, prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries, and the government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Azend's national animal is the beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Azend is ranked 146,100^th in the world and 3^rd in Queersland for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,625.24 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.