The Disputed Territories of Thorn204 is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, punitive income tax rates, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.526 billion Thorn204ians 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, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 57.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn204ian economy, worth 472 trillion Deneroes a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 133,949 Deneroes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Creating dance remixes is the newest form of conspicuous consumption, policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence', people are turning themselves into worm food, and the government is under the thumb of countless special interests. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn204's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Thorn204 is ranked 38,469^th in the world and 402^nd in Suspicious for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 183.5 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.