The Republic of Thorn513 is a massive, safe nation, notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The devout population of 1.611 billion Thorn513ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 59.8%.

The strong Thorn513ian economy, worth 96.3 trillion guilders 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. 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 59,756 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Census workers are having a hard time figuring out who is actually living in Thorn513 after the ban on emigration was lifted, schoolchildren must pass a six-month Ethics and Safety Committee Assessment before they are allowed to mix baking soda and vinegar, wildlife near farms is slowly becoming extinct, and citizens who leave the nation for work are instantly charged with treason. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn513's national animal is the cobra, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Thorn513 is ranked 76,972^nd in the world and 1,412^th in Suspicious for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,350.56 on the Gilded Widget Scale.