The Nostalgic Halcyon of Azure Mines is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Le Petit Prince with a fair hand, and renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 8.004 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 1,737 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 217,116 Courjitziens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Starving citizens are offered nuclear pasta, Le Petit Prince's exquisite office door is replaced monthly due to angry petitioners, chipped paint can see a building condemned, and EULAs remind customers that "Private Mode" is a browser setting rather than a promise. 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 2,002^nd in the world and 17^th in Forest for Highest Poor Incomes, with 216,636.26 Standard Monetary Units.