The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 1DB is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, fear of technology, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 6.456 billion Spice Harvester 1DBians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 30.9%.

The powerhouse Spice Harvester 1DBian economy, worth 467 trillion spices a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 72,404 spices, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 267,615 per year while the poor average 13,808, a ratio of 19.4 to 1.

The smell of tobacco is often smelt around legislative buildings across the nation, science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous, raindances intended to summon storms instead attract tourists, and euthanasia is illegal. Crime is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Spice Harvester 1DB's national animal is the sandworm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Spice Harvester 1DB is ranked 210,660^th in the world and 1,352^nd in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Most Patriotic, with 5.74 flags saluted per person per day.