The planetary economy is focused almost solely on and around the prison. Ghenna's primary export is delicate nano-technologies and raw minerals, the latter being the key to the orbital manufacturing of the former. The use of prison labor has resulted in a steady supply for resources to all consumers and makes the exported technology hugely profitable. The lack of overheads and proximity to its resources makes the industrial process remarkably cheap.

It is often joked that Ghenna's largest import is criminals. Jokes aside, food and other basic goods make up the majority of imports. Like some of the other planets in the Setii System, Ghenna relies on imported goods to sustain its population in orbit and its prisoners on the surface.