The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 330 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, frequent executions, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.475 billion Spice Harvester 330ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 69.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Spice Harvester 330ian economy, worth 718 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, fairly diversified black market in Retail, Woodchip Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Furniture Restoration. 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 84,793 spices, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

Kids' party bags often contain candy and e-cigarettes, government negotiators never forget to say "pretty please" when begging for custody of its criminals, large-girthed charity workers assign themselves healthy wages for their work with starving children, and court cases mostly involve lawyers shouting questions at witnesses giving silent shrugs. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spice Harvester 330's national animal is the sandworm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Spice Harvester 330 is ranked 113,038^th in the world and 241^st in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Most Primitive, scoring -29.64 on the Scary Big Number Scale.