<P> The prince has since visited six other planets, each of which was inhabited by a single, irrational, narrow - minded adult, each meant to critique an element of society . They include: a king with no subjects; a vain man who believes himself the most admirable person on his otherwise uninhabited planet; a drunkard who drinks to forget the shame of being a drunkard; a businessman who is blind to the beauty of the stars and instead endlessly counts them in order to "own" them all (critiquing materialism); a lamplighter who wastes his life blindly following orders and extinguishing and relighting a lamp once a minute; and an elderly geographer . </P> <P> Like the others, the geographer is closed - minded, providing a caricature of specialization in the contemporary world . The prince tells him: </P> <P> "Your planet is very beautiful . Has it any oceans?" </P> <P> "I couldn't tell you," said the geographer...</P>

Who are the characters of the story of the little prince