The Dictatorship of Thorn68 is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, complete lack of prisons, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 4.588 billion Thorn68ians 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 Industry, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 60.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn68ian economy, worth 557 trillion Euros a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 121,430 Euros, with the richest citizens earning 9.3 times as much as the poorest.

Fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, mountain rescuers refer to their new gear as the 'watchamacallits' and 'thingymabobs', and parents who reward their teens' chores with concert tickets are charged with illegal reselling. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn68's national animal is the Scorpion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Thorn68 is ranked 84,421^st in the world and 1^st in Uranus Saturn for Lowest Crime Rates, with 67.94 law-abiding acts per hour.