The Republic of Thorn458 is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, avowedly heterosexual populace, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, devout population of 1.62 billion Thorn458ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 36.4%.

The strong Thorn458ian economy, worth 90.6 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 55,902 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Leader spends weekends doing the laundry of foreign leaders, the news is showing footage of Leader bullying an old man to the point of tears, surveillance cameras are banned, and lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn458's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Thorn458 is ranked 87,537^th in the world and 2,701^st in Suspicious for Most Corrupt Governments, with 18.1 kickbacks per hour.