The United Kingdom of Thorn316 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, public floggings, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.34 billion Thorn316ians 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 relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Education. The average income tax rate is 8.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Thorn316ian economy, worth 353 trillion Platinums a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 105,816 Platinums, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Professional athletes juggle part-time jobs to avoid bankruptcy, appendix transplant figures have recently doubled, 4-year-olds are often found reminiscing about the 'good old days', and the immigration office has an express line for people bringing cash in briefcases. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn316's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Thorn316 is ranked 73,410^th in the world and 1,331^st in Suspicious for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,522.47 on the Gilded Widget Scale.