The Empire of Leto Atreides is a gargantuan, orderly nation, notable for its anti-smoking policies, compulsory vegetarianism, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 45.9 billion Leto Atreidesians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Spirituality, and Social Policy. The average income tax rate is 98.4%.

The Leto Atreidesian economy, worth a remarkable 4,840 trillion spices a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 105,454 spices, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.9 times as much as the poorest.

Waste is frequently shipped to other countries, people are moving into treehouses in record numbers, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, and euthanasia is illegal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Leto Atreides's national animal is the worm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Leto Atreides is ranked 397^th in the world and 1^st in Tarn Vedra for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 6,817.48 on the Clooney Contribution Index.