The Protectorate of Spice Harvester D1 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its soft-spoken computers, compulsory military service, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 6.497 billion Spice Harvester D1ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.4%.

The thriving Spice Harvester D1ian economy, worth 431 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. 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 66,383 spices, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 258,200 per year while the poor average 11,669, a ratio of 22.1 to 1.

Bizarre-looking creatures called 'sandwormdogs' dominate wildlife preserves, declaring that "some kids are just born evil" is not endearing Leader to progressive thinkers, produce labels read 'may contain traces of food', and glassy-eyed Spice Harvester D1ian wives lifelessly chant "I love you" on command. Crime is a serious problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Spice Harvester D1's national animal is the sandworm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Spice Harvester D1 is ranked 266,057^th in the world and 1,364^th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Lowest Crime Rates, with 40.71 law-abiding acts per hour.