The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 29 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its frequent executions, avant-garde cinema, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.678 billion Spice Harvester 29ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.8%.

The all-consuming Spice Harvester 29ian economy, worth 861 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 large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Soda Sales. 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 99,281 spices, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 348,962 per year while the poor average 20,470, a ratio of 17.0 to 1.

A commonwealth of equal nations recognises that Spice Harvester 29 is a bit more equal than the others, a state-funded project is investigating whether the moon is made of cheese, soldiers are taught to throw their guns at their enemies once the bullets have run out, and the government's approval ratings go down while its turnover rate goes up. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate. Spice Harvester 29's national animal is the sandworm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Spice Harvester 29 is ranked 284,566^th in the world and 1,874^th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Highest Food Quality, scoring 5.04 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.