The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 12 is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.638 billion Spice Harvester 12ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 66.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Spice Harvester 12ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,024 trillion spices a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Retail, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 118,646 spices, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Ice-filled coffins are ominously positioned in the corner of every hospital ward, one-upping each other in conversation is strictly prohibited, Spice Harvester 12ian watches list strained wrists as a common side effect, and there's a politician called Male Infant Osborne. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spice Harvester 12's national animal is the sandworm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Spice Harvester 12 is ranked 119,479^th in the world and 1,569^th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 40,221.33 Standard Monetary Units.