The Drug Fueled Utopian Communes of Al Khem is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by EnKu with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, pith helmet sales, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 16.588 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 Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Carcossa in the Hyades. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Khemish economy, worth a remarkable 7,435 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 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 448,252 Tas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The new 'Things We Stole From Other Countries' exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities is a hit, traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income, the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster, and atheists on vacation find Khemist Path of Truth and the Way's scriptures make useful doorstops. 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 16,266^th in the world and 11^th in Taijitu for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 8,874.21 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.