The Nostalgic Halcyon of Azure Mines is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Le Petit Prince with a fair hand, and notable for its lack of airports, state-planned economy, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.998 billion Azurians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amaranth. The average income tax rate is 99.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Azure Mines economy, worth a remarkable 1,735 trillion Courjitziens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an amazing 217,044 Courjitziens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All tribal children are set for life with guaranteed government jobs, adults pretending to be teenage girls claim to have wholesome motives, agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government, and starving citizens are offered nuclear pasta. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Azure Mines's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Waldeinsamkeit.

Azure Mines is ranked 867^th in the world and 13^th in Forest for Most Developed, scoring 98.69 on the Human Development Index.