The Technocracy States of Azzarel is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by The Shepherd with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, anti-smoking policies, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 19.291 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, moralistic, 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 27.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Azza economy, worth a remarkable 6,349 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 329,148 Credits, with the richest citizens earning 6.2 times as much as the poorest.

Robots can only dream of electric sheep and living a long happy life, politicians' smiles are legally considered a form of disaster relief, foreign ambassadors closely guard their culinary secrets, and acknowledgement of minority groups is usually a Trojan horse. 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 2,829^th in the world and 134^th in The North Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 97.44 on the Human Development Index.