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The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 444

“He who controls the spice controls the universe.”

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The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 444 is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.507 billion Spice Harvester 444ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 30.2%.

The all-consuming Spice Harvester 444ian economy, worth 824 trillion spices a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 96,901 spices, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 326,311 per year while the poor average 21,319, a ratio of 15.3 to 1.

Matryoshka dolls resembling nested Death Stars are commonly sold, tourists flock from around the world to see Spice Harvester 444's famed 'rainbow slums', police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, and pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security. Crime is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Spice Harvester 444's national animal is the sandworm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Spice Harvester 444 is ranked 78,250^th in the world and 1,648^th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Most Corrupt Governments, with 21.51 kickbacks per hour.

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