The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 5F is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its smutty television, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed population of 6.477 billion Spice Harvester 5Fians 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, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 42.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Spice Harvester 5Fian economy, worth 661 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, Gambling, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 an impressive 102,132 spices, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Suspicious glow-in-the-dark wasps remain a source of terror and awe, single celebrities have to repeatedly prove their chastity to avoid being married off to infatuated fans, if you go into the woods today you're sure of a big surprise, and disability advocates are not amused that they are told to be dependent on Spice Harvester 5Fians's kindness. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Spice Harvester 5F's national animal is the sandworm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Spice Harvester 5F is ranked 252,744^th in the world and 1,038^th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Lowest Crime Rates, with 50.54 law-abiding acts per hour.