The Drug Fueled Utopian Communes of Al Khem is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by EnKu with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, rampant corporate plagiarism, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.851 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 Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Carcossa in the Hyades. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Khemish economy, worth a remarkable 3,393 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 286,330 Tas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Police spend their Saturday nights breaking up illegal street races, the mood of raunchy movies is often ruined by the sound of babies crying, the military recognizes no difference between male and female soldiers, 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 1,768^th in the world and 3^rd in Taijitu for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 12,679.36 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.