The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 452 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its enslaved workforce, zero percent divorce rate, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 8.47 billion Spice Harvester 452ians 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Environment. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Spice Harvester 452ian economy, worth 820 trillion spices a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 96,928 spices, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 459,892 per year while the poor average 12,055, a ratio of 38.1 to 1.

Kids' party bags often contain candy and e-cigarettes, politicians' financial records are locked up tighter than the nation's spice reserves, the nation's "surprisingly chill" military is renowned for its horrendous war crimes, and tumbleweed drifts through the nation's shopping centres during the weekends. Crime is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Spice Harvester 452's national animal is the sandworm, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Spice Harvester 452 is ranked 74,136^th in the world and 1,097^th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 2,907.67 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.