The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 306 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its frequent executions, ubiquitous missile silos, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 8.398 billion Spice Harvester 306ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 28.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Spice Harvester 306ian economy, worth 817 trillion spices a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 97,387 spices, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 530,554 per year while the poor average 9,173, a ratio of 57.8 to 1.

Ships no longer sail as no one wants to encounter Spice Harvester 306ian pirates, it takes a village to catch a criminal, sexuality-questioning teenagers are placed in locked rooms with dirty magazines and lewd posters, and unemployed judges can be found squatting in abandoned courthouses. Crime is pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Spice Harvester 306's national animal is the sandworm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Spice Harvester 306 is ranked 172,644^th in the world and 1,281^st in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Most Armed, with 0.3 weapons per person.