The Republic of Goble Homon is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-working, cynical population of 752 million Homainians 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 tiny, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.0%.

The strong Goble Homonian economy, worth 53.4 trillion stars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 71,017 stars, with the richest citizens earning 7.9 times as much as the poorest.

Sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors, the sound of office water cooler chatter has been replaced by the whirring of computer cooling fans, dining out often involves Kiwis on the plate no matter what you order, and wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Goble Homon's national animal is the Kiwi, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Goble Homon is ranked 43,685^th in the world and 2^nd in The Chrono Sphere for Most Conservative, scoring 78 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.