The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 189 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, disturbing lack of elderly people, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.513 billion Spice Harvester 189ians 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Environment, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Spice Harvester 189ian economy, worth 892 trillion spices a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 104,814 spices, with the richest citizens earning 6.8 times as much as the poorest.

Anyone who so much as frowns risks being referred to a mental health unit, flu research is commonly shut down for fear of creating a superbug, caroling is considered a public disturbance, and children playing with walkie-talkies are told to 'get a job'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spice Harvester 189's national animal is the sandworm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Spice Harvester 189 is ranked 89,670^th in the world and 33^rd in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Lowest Crime Rates, with 67.23 law-abiding acts per hour.