The Divine Intervention of Azaelai is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Salem with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 18.274 billion Azaelaians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Valerievna. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Azaelaian economy, worth a remarkable 2,304 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 126,088 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 433,320 per year while the poor average 26,904, a ratio of 16.1 to 1.

Cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars, the government is pouring funds into the nation's welfare system, and losing your sock key may require surgical intervention. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Azaelai's national animal is the sassy sea turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Judaism.

Azaelai is ranked 31,585^th in the world and 25^th in The Black Hawks for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 5,571.46 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.