The Free Land of Khasamenteph is a small, safe nation, notable for its state-planned economy and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 40 million Mentes 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 enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 63.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The fragile Mentephian economy, worth 846 billion Infenos 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Uranium Mining, Trout Farming, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 21,168 Infenos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The credibility of anti-government demagogues is undermined by government claims that they smell like poo, kids who move from attending a public school in the city to the country often struggle in goat milking class, the people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli, and military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Khasamenteph's national animal is the Phoenix, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Khasamenteph is ranked 296,301^st in the world and 9^th in Nihungopatra for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -11.08 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.