The Drug Fueled Utopian Communes of Al Khem is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by EnKu with an iron fist, and renowned for its digital currency, vat-grown people, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.308 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Carcossa in the Hyades. The average income tax rate is 98.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Khemish economy, worth a remarkable 3,068 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, Book Publishing, 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 271,384 Tas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

The blood on the hands of EnKu may not be metaphorical, citizens are permitted to carry concealed handguns, where there's a will there is usually a password manager, and justice is blinding. 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 160,878^th in the world and 43^rd in Taijitu for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 4,342.16 Standard Monetary Units.