The Empire of Azur Cael is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, free-roaming dinosaurs, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.048 billion Azur Caelians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 32.4%.

The strong Azur Caelian economy, worth 55.0 trillion Aurums a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. Average income is 52,437 Aurums, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 162,087 per year while the poor average 13,081, a ratio of 12.4 to 1.

Psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Leader to meetings with foreign heads of state, it's illegal to be caught on tape, new arrivals are asked the location of the Minister of the Interior's birthmark, and the nation's soldiers sleep four to a bed in order to use space economically. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Azur Cael's national animal is the Aliter Bestia, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Azur Cael is ranked 258,258^th in the world and 4,199^th in the South Pacific for Nudest, with 61.75 cheeks per square mile.