The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 34 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.692 billion Spice Harvester 34ians 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 59.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Spice Harvester 34ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,134 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. 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 an impressive 130,524 spices, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 458,777 per year while the poor average 26,912, a ratio of 17.0 to 1.

The installation of street lights across remote goat tracks has left citizens bemused, foreign casinos have trouble paying fans who bet on the triumph of the Spice Harvester 34 City Sandworms against long odds, troublemakers just happen to be reassigned to distant mining operations, and kitchen patrol is dominated by ten-year-old runts. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Spice Harvester 34's national animal is the sandworm, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Spice Harvester 34 is ranked 282,934^th in the world and 1,851^st in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Highest Food Quality, scoring 5.34 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.