The Republic of Thorn531 is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.584 billion Thorn531ians 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 large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 63.9%.
The very strong Thorn531ian economy, worth 96.2 trillion guilders a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 60,716 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.
Business ambassadors offer bong tokes to foreign leaders, a murderous reputation can revitalise a flagging celebrity career, barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Thorn531 City Natural History Museum, and tombstones are ten feet high to accommodate the names of inhabitants. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn531's national animal is the cobra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Thorn531 is ranked 135,101st in the world and 2,481st in Suspicious for Highest Food Quality, scoring 17.3 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in
Thorn531, tombstones are ten feet high to accommodate the names of inhabitants.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn531, barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Thorn531 City Natural History Museum.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn531, a murderous reputation can revitalise a flagging celebrity career.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn531, business ambassadors offer bong tokes to foreign leaders.
- : Thorn531 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Nicest Citizens and Most Compassionate Citizens.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn531, insanely good theatre productions face government censorship.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn531, airplane passengers have been known to stuff pillows in their jackets to get extra arm room.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn531, sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn531, the recently unemployed can often be seen at the local homeless shelter.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn531, T-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age.
