The Republic of Thorn2018 is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its disturbing lack of elderly people, aversion to nipples, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 2.58 billion Thorn2018ians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 72.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn2018ian economy, worth 206 trillion baht a year, is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Trout Farming, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 79,876 baht, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

The education system is famed for its taxing exams, prudishness is on the way out, unprotected royals have replaced their corgis with rottweilers, and third world countries are rich in "I Love Thorn2018 City" t-shirts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn2018's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Thorn2018 is ranked 302,874^th in the world and 11,974^th in Suspicious for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -22 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.