The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 65 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, avowedly heterosexual populace, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.683 billion Spice Harvester 65ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 67.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Spice Harvester 65ian economy, worth 932 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, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Uranium Mining, Gambling, 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 107,349 spices, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police, you're only as old as you feel, the government finds the idea of having an army to be rather distasteful, and community-designed sword prostheses are becoming dangerously common. Crime is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Spice Harvester 65's national animal is the sandworm, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Spice Harvester 65 is ranked 285,756^th in the world and 1,798^th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Safest, scoring 5.14 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.