A place Waugh calls Azania...

"We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of the Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life …" -Emperor Seth I

"...Onto this scene bursts an Englishman by the name of Basil Seal. The son of a former Conservative chief whip in Parliament, Seal is a madcap playboy who had struck up a casual acquaintance with Seth when both were at Oxford and who decides to take advantage of the relationship now that the latter is on his throne. But Seal’s objectives are not mercenary; he is out for fun and adventure. He is bored with conventional life in London and the respectable career his socially prominent mother has mapped out for him. “Every year or so there’s one place in the globe worth going to where things are happening,” he explains, to justify his sudden departure for Azania. (The fact that the country’s extreme remoteness puts him wholly out of the reach of his many creditors does nothing to detract from its appeal.) He finances the trip by purloining his mother’s emerald bracelet and is well on his way before she discovers the theft..."

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