The Ur-Quan Masters of Hesperonis is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Lord 353 with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, free-roaming dinosaurs, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 49.492 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 primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry and Education also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Welfare 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 33,331 trillion Sa-Matras a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Soda Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is a breathtaking 673,463 Sa-Matras, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,503,475 per year while the poor average 69,915, a ratio of 50.1 to 1.

Vehicular homicide by Hesperonisian ambassadors is a leading cause of death throughout the world's capital cities, aspiring pilots must be personally vetted by the Minister of Transportation before receiving their license, life-saving resuscitation is denied based on decades-old teenage diaries that declare "I want to die before I get old", and international terrorists often get their weapons supply in Hesperonis. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, probably because of the absence of a police force. 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 2,933^rd in the world and 85^th in Lazarus for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 65,456.7 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.