The Empire of Leto II Atreides is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, enslaved workforce, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 8.435 billion Leto II Atreidesians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 40.1%.

The very strong Leto II Atreidesian economy, worth 611 trillion spices 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. 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 72,512 spices, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 225,283 per year while the poor average 17,957, a ratio of 12.5 to 1.

Cheering flag-waving citizens don't like to think too hard about politics, citizens are tied down and forced to watch educational videos on empathy, mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field, and declaring that "some kids are just born evil" is not endearing Leader to progressive thinkers. Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Leto II Atreides's national animal is the sandworm, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Leto II Atreides is ranked 68,389^th in the world and 5^th in Arrakis for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,791.28 on the Gilded Widget Scale.