The Disputed Territories of Thorn204 is a massive, orderly nation, notable for its enslaved workforce, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.469 billion Thorn204ians 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 juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 56.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn204ian economy, worth 475 trillion Deneroes a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 137,142 Deneroes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

It can be a real jungle in a modern courtroom, airport users are more worried about radiation than terrorism, paralegals spend all day Hewlett-Packing attorneys' law briefs, and back-alley circumcision clinics are popping up all over the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn204's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Thorn204 is ranked 17,262^nd in the world and 102^nd in Suspicious for Most Corrupt Governments, with 111.39 kickbacks per hour.