The Hegemony of The Gorn Home Planet is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by S'alath with an iron fist, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, strictly enforced bedtime, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 10.064 billion Gorn 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Industry, and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Agornu. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Gorn economy, worth a remarkable 1,231 trillion Gold-pressed Latinum Strips a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Information Technology, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 122,342 Gold-pressed Latinum Strips, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 448,888 per year while the poor average 23,602, a ratio of 19.0 to 1.

The military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms, the government has the power to seize property at will, a light facial coating of soot is seen as the mark of an honest and hardworking man, and stylish juvenile delinquents are highly overrepresented in fatal motorcycle accidents. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Gorn Home Planet's national animal is the Mammal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Gorn Home Planet is ranked 25,489^th in the world and 12^th in United Earth Space Probe Agency for Most Corrupt Governments, with 83.3 kickbacks per hour.