The Republic of Thorn35 is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its public floggings, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.997 billion Thorn35ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 71.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn35ian economy, worth 676 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 135,284 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Grazing lands are filled with cattle wearing odd-looking anti-pollution devices, the immigration office has an express line for people bringing cash in briefcases, executions often take hours as amateurs attempt to find veins, and weather forecasts are accurate but nobody has the bandwidth to view them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn35's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Thorn35 is ranked 61,641^st in the world and 774^th in Suspicious for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 4,861.4 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.