The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 8 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its enslaved workforce, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.717 billion Spice Harvester 8ians 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 Administration, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 47.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Spice Harvester 8ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,164 trillion spices a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 133,565 spices, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

Funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience, terrified tympanists are finding themselves on the front lines armed only with kettledrums, babysitters are a thing of the past, and criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison. Crime is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Spice Harvester 8's national animal is the sandworm, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Spice Harvester 8 is ranked 22,429^th in the world and 19^th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 262.61 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.