The Drug Fueled Utopian Communes of Al Khem is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by EnKu with an iron fist, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, digital currency, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 14.738 billion Khems are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Carcossa in the Hyades. The average income tax rate is 99.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Khemish economy, worth a remarkable 6,123 trillion Tas 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. 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 amazing 415,474 Tas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Dangerous criminals are often 'accidentally' sent on one-way trips to Maxtopia, bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, public executions just aren't the cheery spectacles they once were, and a sledgehammer and a spray can are seen as the default tools of political debate. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Al Khem's national animal is the Ghak'ell, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Khemist Path of Truth and the Way.

Al Khem is ranked 623^rd in the world and 1^st in Taijitu for Highest Average Incomes, with 415,474.69 Standard Monetary Units.