diff --git a/node/pkg/governor/mainnet_tokens_test.go b/node/pkg/governor/mainnet_tokens_test.go
index 4ea21aafe9..6f89a8bab8 100644
--- a/node/pkg/governor/mainnet_tokens_test.go
+++ b/node/pkg/governor/mainnet_tokens_test.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package governor
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
@@ -118,3 +119,84 @@ func TestTokenListEmptyCoinGeckoId(t *testing.T) {
 		assert.Greater(t, len(tokenConfigEntry.coinGeckoId), 0)
 	}
 }
+
+// If not true, then there exists some chain that Wormhole governs yet has no governed tokens. That means assets
+// native to the chain are not actually governed and can be transferred across all other supported chains without
+// increasing their Governor limit. We don't want this.
+func TestAllGovernedChainsHaveGovernedAssets(t *testing.T) {
+
+	// Build a list of chains that are not governed we will filter these out. Compare with `mainnet_chains.go`
+	ignoredChains := map[vaa.ChainID]bool{
+		// Pyth is special
+		vaa.ChainIDPythNet: true,
+		// BTC is special
+		vaa.ChainIDBtc: true,
+		// Wormchain is a Wormhole abstraction over IBC type networks
+		vaa.ChainIDWormchain: true,
+		// From the perspective of the Governor, all of these are "Wormchain" because they use IBC.
+		vaa.ChainIDCosmoshub:  true,
+		vaa.ChainIDEvmos:      true,
+		vaa.ChainIDKujira:     true,
+		vaa.ChainIDNeutron:    true,
+		vaa.ChainIDCelestia:   true,
+		vaa.ChainIDStargaze:   true,
+		vaa.ChainIDSeda:       true,
+		vaa.ChainIDDymension:  true,
+		vaa.ChainIDProvenance: true,
+		// ID reserved but mainnet hasn't launched
+		vaa.ChainIDBerachain: true,
+		// Testnets
+		vaa.ChainIDHolesky:         true,
+		vaa.ChainIDSepolia:         true,
+		vaa.ChainIDArbitrumSepolia: true,
+		vaa.ChainIDBaseSepolia:     true,
+		vaa.ChainIDOptimismSepolia: true,
+		vaa.ChainIDPolygonSepolia:  true,
+		// Otherwise Archived/inactive
+		vaa.ChainIDRootstock: true,
+		vaa.ChainIDLinea:     true,
+		vaa.ChainIDGnosis:    true,
+		vaa.ChainIDOsmosis:   true,
+	}
+
+	chainsWithNoGovernedAssets := []vaa.ChainID{}
+
+	// Scan all governed tokens and build a set of all chain IDs found in the "Origin" field of the tokens.
+	originChains := make(map[uint16]bool)
+	for _, token := range tokenList() {
+		_, ok := originChains[token.chain]
+		if !ok {
+			originChains[token.chain] = true
+		}
+	}
+
+	// For all governed chains, make sure that they showed up when we scanned all the Origins of the governed tokens.
+	// If not, add them to the list of chains that should be governed yet have no assets configured for them.
+	for _, id := range vaa.GetAllNetworkIDs() {
+		if _, ok := originChains[uint16(id)]; !ok {
+			if _, artificial := ignoredChains[id]; !artificial {
+				chainsWithNoGovernedAssets = append(chainsWithNoGovernedAssets, id)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	if len(chainsWithNoGovernedAssets) > 0 {
+		output := []string{}
+		for _, id := range chainsWithNoGovernedAssets {
+			output = append(output, id.String())
+
+		}
+		sort.Strings(output)
+		t.Logf("Governed chains without governed assets: %s\n", strings.Join(output, "\n"))
+	}
+
+	if len(ignoredChains) > 0 {
+		ignoredOutput := []string{}
+		for id, _ := range ignoredChains {
+			ignoredOutput = append(ignoredOutput, id.String())
+		}
+
+		t.Logf("This test ignored the following chains because they are not governed: %s\n", strings.Join(ignoredOutput, "\n"))
+	}
+	assert.Zero(t, len(chainsWithNoGovernedAssets))
+}