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 soft-spoken computers, vat-grown people, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 15.947 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 average income tax rate is 99.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Khemish economy, worth a remarkable 6,802 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 426,543 Tas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The legalization of meat has skewered the sales of vegetarian substitutes, environmentalists have found an unusual ally in soldiers of fortune, undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected, and artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings. 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 3,052^nd in the world and 2^nd in Taijitu for Most Valuable International Artwork, with 163.22 Bank.