Population | 5.984 billion |
Currency | Euro |
Animal | Lion |
The Republic of Thorn44 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, frequent executions, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 5.984 billion Thorn44ians 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, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.7%.
The frighteningly efficient Thorn44ian economy, worth 944 trillion Euros a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 157,795 Euros, with the richest citizens earning 6.2 times as much as the poorest.
It is illegal to liberate slaves, a recent political debate came to a quick close once the ruling party decreed it was "just plain silly", new "Worker's Strike" laws set out who is allowed to strike a worker, and fans doing the wave routinely disrupt the finals of Go tournaments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn44's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Thorn44 is ranked 220,257th in the world and 3,728th in Suspicious for Most Income Equality, scoring 16.06 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Thorn44's influence in Suspicious rose from "Hatchling" to "Newcomer".
- : Thorn44's influence in Suspicious rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : Thorn44's influence in Suspicious rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : Thorn44 relocated from The Rejected Realms to Suspicious.
- : Thorn44 applied to join the World Assembly.
- : Thorn44 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Zombified.
- : Thorn44 relocated from Exiled to The Rejected Realms.
- : Thorn44 was ejected and banned from Exiled by The Republic of Meow 54.
- : Thorn44 resigned from the World Assembly.
- : Thorn44 relocated from Suspicious to Exiled.