The Artificial Light of Mechanocracy is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its public floggings, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 4.06 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 are ignored. The average income tax rate is 92.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mechanocracyian economy, worth 934 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 230,252 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A vast monorail network carries people all over the country, people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, women tell their friends they've been on crash diets rather than admit they were pregnant and have had terminations, and small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome. 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 285,579^th in the world and 840^th in Concord for Most Beautiful Environments, with 4.11 pounds of wildlife per square mile.