The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 471 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its teetotalling pirates, rampant corporate plagiarism, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.365 billion Spice Harvester 471ians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 49.4%.

The powerhouse Spice Harvester 471ian economy, worth 663 trillion spices a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 79,267 spices, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Leader can cry on demand, diabetics find the contents of their medications hard to stomach, flu research is commonly shut down for fear of creating a superbug, and all citizens are solely referenced by their allocated identity number. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spice Harvester 471's national animal is the sandworm, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Spice Harvester 471 is ranked 116,891^st in the world and 116^th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Lowest Crime Rates, with 64.03 law-abiding acts per hour.