The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 492 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its closed borders, triple-decker prams, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 8.484 billion Spice Harvester 492ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.0%.

The all-consuming Spice Harvester 492ian economy, worth 958 trillion spices a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Soda Sales, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 112,958 spices, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 328,085 per year while the poor average 30,784, a ratio of 10.7 to 1.

It takes all playtime for children to locate their friends among two hundred identical heads, school lessons are constantly interrupted by 'teacher needs a break' time, even snitches get stitches, and political shows are fit for purpose. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Spice Harvester 492's national animal is the sandworm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Spice Harvester 492 is ranked 66,207^th in the world and 1,187^th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,905.64 on the Gilded Widget Scale.