The Grand Duchy of Paul Muad Dib Atreides is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and soft-spoken computers. The democratic population of 4.498 billion Paul Muad Dib Atreidesians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 12.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Paul Muad Dib Atreidesian economy, worth 174 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, fairly diversified black market in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, 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 38,835 Spices, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens who leave the nation for work are instantly charged with treason, soldiers' positions are given away by the glint of their bayonets, the government has officially clarified that "wee on your hands to save time" does not count as proper hygiene, and Leader has just been declared ruler of Paul Muad Dib Atreides in an international press conference. Crime is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Paul Muad Dib Atreides's national animal is the Sandworm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Paul Muad Dib Atreides is ranked 251,397^th in the world and 15^th in Known Universe for Highest Food Quality, scoring 7.57 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.