The Protectorate of Spice Harvester F4 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, avant-garde cinema, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.614 billion Spice Harvester F4ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43.4%.

The powerhouse Spice Harvester F4ian economy, worth 585 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, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Gambling. 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 88,549 spices, with the richest citizens earning 9.3 times as much as the poorest.

The government's fruit business reeks of rotting produce and corruption, veterans' meet-ups involve a lot of tail sniffing, even snitches get stitches, and most people suffer from some form of hearing loss. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Spice Harvester F4's national animal is the sandworm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Spice Harvester F4 is ranked 37,673^rd in the world and 703^rd in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Most Corrupt Governments, with 57.5 kickbacks per hour.