The Lady of the Lake of Azurobe is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its enslaved workforce, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.41 billion Azurobeans 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 large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 69.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Azurobean economy, worth 340 trillion marks 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Information Technology. 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 77,319 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The dartboard at the Azurobean Cancer Research Charity bears a picture of Leader's face, the government airlifts sacrificial lambs, election ballot papers are so long that unused ones are recycled as toilet roll, and the new national mascot has to be wheeled onto the field of play. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Azurobe's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Azurobe is ranked 280,720^th in the world and 8^th in Horrible Badness for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 36.69 on the Kitten Softness Rating.