The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 463 is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 8.327 billion Spice Harvester 463ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 52.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Spice Harvester 463ian economy, worth 843 trillion spices a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 101,333 spices, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Spice Harvester 463 Barrier Island residents anxiously await their 'Bridge to Somewhere', guns don't kill people — heroes do, Leader's campaign events reach their climax when the celebrity endorsers reveal themselves, and the government keeps its thumb on the scales of justice. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spice Harvester 463's national animal is the sandworm, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Spice Harvester 463 is ranked 185,256^th in the world and 549^th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Lowest Crime Rates, with 57.99 law-abiding acts per hour.