The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 238 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its frequent executions, avowedly heterosexual populace, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.395 billion Spice Harvester 238ians 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 prioritizes Industry, although Education, Administration, and Defense are also considered important. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Spice Harvester 238ian economy, worth 765 trillion spices a year, is led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 91,132 spices, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 453,852 per year while the poor average 10,327, a ratio of 43.9 to 1.

You can be fired for dyeing grey hairs, political shows are fit for purpose, the nation's water should not be ingested while operating heavy machinery, and the hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Spice Harvester 238's national animal is the sandworm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Spice Harvester 238 is ranked 247,106^th in the world and 934^th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Lowest Crime Rates, with 52.91 law-abiding acts per hour.