The Squire of Planet Gothos is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Trelane with an iron fist, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, soft-spoken computers, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 10.134 billion Gothosians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt government is dominated by the Department of Defense, although Administration, Industry, and Education are also considered important, while Environment and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of A 14th Century Manor House. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22.2%.

The all-consuming Gothosian economy, worth a remarkable 1,158 trillion Gold-pressed Latinum Strips 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Gambling, and Soda 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 114,300 Gold-pressed Latinum Strips, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 388,813 per year while the poor average 24,768, a ratio of 15.7 to 1.

Gothosians wonder "if a tree falls in the woods with no credible witnesses, who wants to know?", tourist operators promise visitors tours of live burning shipwrecks and plane crash sites, the Liberal Progressive and Progressive Liberal parties swear that they have totally different ideologies, and children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Planet Gothos's national animal is the Humanoid Bird, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Mother and Father.

Planet Gothos is ranked 284,319^th in the world and 166^th in United Earth Space Probe Agency for Highest Food Quality, scoring 5.13 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.