The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 98 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its closed borders, compulsory vegetarianism, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 8.619 billion Spice Harvester 98ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 33.6%.

The thriving Spice Harvester 98ian economy, worth 900 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, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, 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 an impressive 104,518 spices, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Joggers are often arrested for breathing too heavily, smiling in public is seen as criminally suspicious behaviour, daisy chain gangs plant flowers and pick up litter, and the police are destroying all photographic evidence of their own existence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spice Harvester 98's national animal is the sandworm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Spice Harvester 98 is ranked 143,282^nd in the world and 813^th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 872.1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.