The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 299 is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, frequent executions, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.479 billion Spice Harvester 299ians 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 Industry, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 42.2%.

The all-consuming Spice Harvester 299ian economy, worth 744 trillion spices a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is 87,832 spices, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 394,360 per year while the poor average 12,089, a ratio of 32.6 to 1.

Small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants, being nicknamed "Orange Face" has done Leader's credibility no favours, blood donations have been banned because of the risk of eternal unrest, and police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spice Harvester 299's national animal is the sandworm, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Spice Harvester 299 is ranked 62,471^st in the world and 1,093^rd in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 50,767.04 Standard Monetary Units.