The Machine Dictatorship of Kharaa is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by The Great Coordinator with an iron fist, and notable for its ban on automobiles, avowedly heterosexual populace, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 9.124 billion Kharens are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Primus Nexus. The average income tax rate is 92.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kharen economy, worth a remarkable 1,525 trillion Credits 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 a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. 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 impressive 167,245 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile, citizens who don't recite the Pledge of Kharaa at least three times a day are placed on a terrorist watch-list, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, and the government has become increasingly militant. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kharaa's national animal is the Iron Feathered Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Tech Worship.

Kharaa is ranked 2,063^rd in the world and 48^th in 10000 Islands for Most Secular, with 99.09 Atheism Rate.