The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 183 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its digital currency, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.555 billion Spice Harvester 183ians 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Administration, Healthcare, and Education are also considered important, while Public Transport and International Aid aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.5%.

The very strong Spice Harvester 183ian economy, worth 611 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 a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Retail. 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 71,464 spices, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 258,429 per year while the poor average 14,103, a ratio of 18.3 to 1.

People are raising their middle finger to non-digital currencies, space shuttles are lying silent on the runway till the Space Agency can work out how to fit a creche and a meditation room into their next spacecraft, slavers view "what did your last slave die of" as a request for a demonstration, and the government is encouraging violence on television. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Spice Harvester 183's national animal is the sandworm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Spice Harvester 183 is ranked 280,064^th in the world and 1,672^nd in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Highest Food Quality, scoring 5.91 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.