The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 265 is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.41 billion Spice Harvester 265ians 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 Education, Administration, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Spice Harvester 265ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,048 trillion spices a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 124,702 spices, with the richest citizens earning 7.4 times as much as the poorest.

Engineers are reinventing the wheel, anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper, a ban on unsolicited cold calling in all forms is in effect, and ghost regiments exist only on paper. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spice Harvester 265's national animal is the sandworm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Spice Harvester 265 is ranked 179,034^th in the world and 498^th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Lowest Crime Rates, with 58.51 law-abiding acts per hour.