The Artificial Light of Mechanocracy is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, feral children, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 4.079 billion Robots are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government prioritizes Defense, although Administration, Industry, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Education and Spirituality receive no funds. The average income tax rate is 92.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mechanocracyian economy, worth 943 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Retail, Soda Sales, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. 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 231,329 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Landless farmers wander forlornly in the government's many national parks, pro-life activists often lecture pregnant women undergoing routine prenatal screening, the banshee wail foretells skies of death, and the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive. Mechanocracy's national animal is the Adbot, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mechanocracy is ranked 8,552^nd in the world and 5^th in Concord for Most Corrupt Governments, with 169.24 kickbacks per hour.