The Power of Melange is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Paul Muad'Dib with an iron fist, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, free-roaming dinosaurs, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 6.888 billion Melangeans are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dune. The average income tax rate is 73.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Melangean economy, worth 511 trillion spices a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Trout Farming. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 74,252 spices, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

The fattest folk in Melange look to be the happiest ones, sexually-starved male dinosaurs terrorise tourists during weekly breakouts from Mesozoic Park, you're only as old as you feel, and there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees. Crime is totally unknown. Melange's national animal is the sandworm, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Spice Agony.

Melange is ranked 250,461^st in the world and 17^th in Dune for Most Primitive, scoring -153.37 on the Scary Big Number Scale.