The Desert Empire of The Azalea Princess is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Retsu Raoh with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, ban on automobiles, and compulsory vegetarianism. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.121 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 84.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Princess economy, worth 685 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 Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, 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 133,779 endoes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance, citizens may not "love, honor and obey" anyone except the State, the military recognizes no difference between male and female soldiers, and an alabaster statue of an ancient cat-deity takes pride of place in the centre of Whirl's End. Crime is well under control, 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 930^th in the world and 35^th in Osiris for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 16,101.7 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.