The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 456 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its public floggings, parental licensing program, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 8.48 billion Spice Harvester 456ians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 46.7%.

The all-consuming Spice Harvester 456ian economy, worth 731 trillion spices a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Soda Sales industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 86,273 spices, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 327,937 per year while the poor average 15,738, a ratio of 20.8 to 1.

Stern tutting by international commentators has persuaded Spice Harvester 456 to disarm, foreign spirits are hard to find due to an abundance of "Cletus and Jim Bob's Homemade Spice Harvester 456ian Moonshine", genetic researchers have been expelled, and the optimally efficient parking strategy for business commuters is referred to as the "traveling salesman problem". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spice Harvester 456's national animal is the sandworm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Spice Harvester 456 is ranked 38,178^th in the world and 131^st in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Most Patriotic, with 33.29 flags saluted per person per day.