The Ur-Quan Masters of Hesperonis is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Lord 353 with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, deadly medical pandemics, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 29.345 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.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt, well-organized individuals prioritizes Defense, although Industry, Education, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Social Policy and Environment receive no funds. 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 16,302 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 Retail, Gambling, and Information Technology. Average income is a breathtaking 555,533 Sa-Matras, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,280,072 per year while the poor average 89,364, a ratio of 25.5 to 1.

Government police forces protect public schools from the threat of protest, biotech companies are fined if their jumbled genetic sequences look too familiar, protestors are soaking piles of Sa-Matras in blood to make a point about government incomes, and advertisements read like science journal articles complete with extensive references. 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.

Hesperonis is ranked 1,797^th in the world and 104^th in Lazarus for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 100 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.