The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 79 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, frequent executions, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 8.538 billion Spice Harvester 79ians 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 Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Spice Harvester 79ian economy, worth 974 trillion spices a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 114,193 spices, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 434,887 per year while the poor average 20,768, a ratio of 20.9 to 1.

Teach an angler how to phish and he can make a living, the new "Bloodbath" orange tree autonomously seeks and destroys independent orchards, only the wealthy vote, and half-submerged and flooded seaside hotels are technically still next to the beach. Crime is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Spice Harvester 79's national animal is the sandworm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Spice Harvester 79 is ranked 244,881^st in the world and 899^th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Lowest Crime Rates, with 53.5 law-abiding acts per hour.