The United Socialist States of Azores and Madeira is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 736 million Azoromadeirans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cidade de Alheiras. The average income tax rate is 88.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Azoromadeiran economy, worth 89.2 trillion Escudoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 121,246 Escudoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military equipment stores have a tendency to go up in flames, refugees from other nations are flocking to Azores and Madeira's border, trade policy consists of ganging up on the new guy, and government fact-checkers use surprising amounts of high explosive. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Azores and Madeira's national animal is the Taco Kiwi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Azores and Madeira is ranked 16,219^th in the world and 29^th in The Kodiak Republic for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 343.12 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.