The Desert Empire of The Azalea Princess is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Retsu Raoh with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.132 billion Azaleans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Whirl's End. The average income tax rate is 85.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Princess economy, worth 700 trillion endoes 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. 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 an impressive 136,413 endoes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, all writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves, children's TV shows are having a gay old time, and journalists giggle uncontrollably while reporting the nation's drug bonfires. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Azalea Princess's national animal is the honeybee, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Floriculture.

The Azalea Princess is ranked 896^th in the world and 28^th in Osiris for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 16,296.07 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.