Hetzal was the main world of the Hetzal system in the Outer Rim Territories and was orbited by two inhabited moons, the Fruited and the Rooted. The entire system was committed to agricultural production, exporting food all over the Outer Rim and in some parts of the Inner Rim. During the High Republic Era, the planet attempted to grow bacta, a new substance supposed to revolutionize medicine, in plants.

Home to billions inhabitants, Hetzal Prime was filled with rivers, lakes, and golden fields of cropland that grew honeyfruit, kingberries, ice melons, and more. As the whole System believed in using every bit of available space to grow crops buildings and structures on the planet were roofed with cropland and fruit vines additionally rivers and lakes were used to grow algae and waterweeds. Because every crop of the galaxy could grow somewhere on Hetzal and the three suns gave the planet uniquely long growing seasons, there was always something in Season ready to be harvested by harvester droids.