The Republic of Thorn2049 is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, prohibition of alcohol, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.652 billion Thorn2049ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 71.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn2049ian economy, worth 639 trillion rupees a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 137,450 rupees, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Candidates for public office painstakingly research their family trees to ensure their eligibility, typing Leader's name into a search engine always gives zero matches, oil executives can be seen reluctantly cleaning oil-soaked birds, and territories have the right to secede if they aren't happy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn2049's national animal is the horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Thorn2049 is ranked 28,807^th in the world and 231^st in Suspicious for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,823.86 on the Gilded Widget Scale.