The Machine Dictatorship of Kharaa is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Great Coordinator with an iron fist, and remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, avowedly heterosexual populace, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 11.44 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, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Primus Nexus. The average income tax rate is 96.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Kharen economy, worth a remarkable 2,012 trillion Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 175,890 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cotton candy made from genuine cotton cellulose doesn't quite satisfy, military parades quietly tiptoe their way through the streets, internet moderators work overtime to remove memes comparing The Great Coordinator to cartoon bears, and government officials who do an offal job get smoked. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive 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 251,370^th in the world and 581^st in 10000 Islands for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -4.47 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.