The Ur-Quan Masters of Hesperonis is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Lord 353 with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, aversion to nipples, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 36.262 billion Ur-Quans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Delta Crateris V. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Hesperonisian economy, worth an astonishing 21,640 trillion Sa-Matras a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Soda Sales industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Gambling. Average income is a breathtaking 596,789 Sa-Matras, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,747,148 per year while the poor average 78,516, a ratio of 35.0 to 1.

Saying "don't do anything that Lord 353 wouldn't do" doesn't exclude a great deal, in government offices a hidden killer takes the lives of ministers and civil servants, military geniuses responsible for brilliant campaigns are drummed out because they have close same-sex friends and an interest in interior design, and wounded veterans can only get prosthetics if they agree to become walking billboards for the arms industry. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Hesperonis's national animal is the Dnyarri, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Path of Now and Forever.

Hesperonis is ranked 8,724^th in the world and 476^th in Lazarus for Most Secular, with 95.44 Atheism Rate.