Population | 5.289 billion |
Currency | Shiny Green Things |
Animal | Lion |
The United Kingdom of Thorn17 is a colossal, orderly nation, notable for its parental licensing program, lack of airports, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.289 billion Thorn17ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.
The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 27.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.
The thriving Thorn17ian economy, worth 510 trillion Shiny Green Things a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 96,547 Shiny Green Things, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.
Arthritic citizens seem underrepresented at royal meet-and-greets, escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, every day at 4am Thorn17ians wake to pray for the sun to rise, and childhood friends of Leader are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn17's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Thorn17 is ranked 241,185th in the world and 7,198th in Suspicious for Most Stationary, with 21.43798627968 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Thorn17's influence in Suspicious rose from "Nipper" to "Minnow".
- : Thorn17 applied to join the World Assembly.
- : Thorn17 applied to join the World Assembly.
- : Thorn17 applied to join the World Assembly.
- : Thorn17's influence in Suspicious rose from "Newcomer" to "Nipper".
- : Thorn17's influence in Suspicious rose from "Hatchling" to "Newcomer".
- : Thorn17's influence in Suspicious rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : Thorn17's influence in Suspicious rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : Thorn17 relocated from Republic of Santa Barbara to Suspicious.
- : Thorn17 applied to join the World Assembly.