The Artificial Light of Mechanocracy is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, parental licensing program, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 4.09 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 juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 92.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mechanocracyian economy, worth 948 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 231,795 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Surveillance cameras are banned, the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme, the nation's leader is normally just referred to as "snuggle-wuggle-huggy-bear", and intelligence agencies frequently invite passers-by into their secret vaults for tea and biscuits. 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 2,108^th in the world and 3^rd in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 15,334.22 on the Gilded Widget Scale.