The Free Land of Azores Commune is a tiny, genial nation, notable for its absence of drug laws, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 16 million Azores Communeans 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 65.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Azores Communean economy, worth 299 billion nulls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Trout Farming. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 18,712 nulls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sex changes are routinely performed at Azores Commune's hospitals, the noble worker digs deep for his communist ideals, the government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks, and consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Azores Commune's national animal is the Pigeon.

Azores Commune is ranked 316,104^th in the world and 33^rd in Middle East for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -8.27 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.