Lankiveil
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In the Dune universe, Lankiveil is a planet ruled by House Harkonnen. It is cold and windy, and its seas are choked with pack ice and icebergs. Its oceans are home to the famous Bjondax whales, whose priceless furs form the backbone of the Harkonnen economy. The rulers of Lankiveil have the noble title of Count, with their seat of government in the village of Tula Fjord, which is also the planet's foremost city. Although the Harkonnens the official rulers of the planet, the native House Rabban has much influence in planetary politics. Lankiveil is also a stronghold of the Buddislamic religion, with the mountains and glaciers filled with monastaries, among which the most famous is the Bifrost Eyrie, suggesting that the planet's mythos is based on Tibetan culture.
The planet was ruled by Vladimir Harkonnen's half-brother, Abulurd Harkonnen, until 10,174 A.G.
Lankiveil is where Baron Harkonnen hid his house's illegally owned, embezzeled spice, in a false iceberg. Abulurd discovered this, but did not blackmail his brother the Baron or the Padishah Emperor, arguing that he would not win either way. However, when Vladimir kidnapped his most beloved son, Feyd-Rautha, he decided to give all the illegal spice away to the population of Lankiveil, as a final revenge.
History
In the year 88 B.G., the original Abulurd Harkonnen, was exiled from the League of Nobles, for cowardice, by Viceroy Faykan Corrino, and given the govenorship of Lankiveil. It was by manipulating the price of lankiveilan whale-fur, that Abulurd's descendants managed to make their way back into the Corrino Imperium and nobility.
Upon the death of the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen's father, Dmitri Harkonnen, the old Emperor had, through some mental deficiency, granted the seat of power to the softhearted Abulurd, who had managed to decimate spice production in a mere seven years. Profits plunged, and he lost control to smugglers and sabotage. In disgrace, he had been deposed from his position and sent off without official title to Lankiveil, where even he could do little damage to the self-sustaining whale-fur activities.