The Technocracy States of Azzarel is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The Shepherd with an iron fist, and remarkable for its digital currency, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 4.945 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, 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 73.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Azza economy, worth a remarkable 1,532 trillion credits a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is an amazing 309,867 credits, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,446,289 per year while the poor average 39,739, a ratio of 36.4 to 1.

The well-to-do in The North Pacific are never on time for important appointments, popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs, vanity is considered the fifth cardinal virtue, and babysitters are a thing of the past. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded 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 57,950^th in the world and 3,434^th in The North Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 2,902.82 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.