Population | 3.028 billion |
Currency | vatu |
Animal | bear |
The Dictatorship of Thorn324 is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.028 billion Thorn324ians 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, Administration, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 40.4%.
The frighteningly efficient Thorn324ian economy, worth 343 trillion vatus a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 113,376 vatus, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 415,990 per year while the poor average 21,873, a ratio of 19.0 to 1.
The nation has always been at war with Bigtopia, truancy is as easy as clicking a camera icon, ersatz chicken has left the nation's citizens with a bad taste in their mouths, and elderly prisoners with severe dementia are reminded hourly that they are evil people by helpful nurse-wardens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn324's national animal is the bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Thorn324 is ranked 272,693rd in the world and 8,461st in Suspicious for Highest Food Quality, scoring 6.65 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Thorn324 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Advanced Law Enforcement.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn324, elderly prisoners with severe dementia are reminded hourly that they are evil people by helpful nurse-wardens.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn324, ersatz chicken has left the nation's citizens with a bad taste in their mouths.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn324, truancy is as easy as clicking a camera icon.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn324, the nation has always been at war with Bigtopia.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn324, Leader claims tax rises are the result of 'curses'.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn324, hostage-takers offer loyalty scheme points for prompt payment.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn324, political visitors are forced to stop ten paces from Leader's throne.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn324, a fashion designer has been arrested for inciting hatred after claiming redheads couldn't pull off vermillion.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn324, the leaders of Thorn324 are given the nod by their predecessors.