The Federation of Thorn142 is a mammoth, efficient nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory military service, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.679 billion Thorn142ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 84.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn142ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,271 trillion Deneroes a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 146,520 Deneroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children's TV shows are having a gay old time, couples kissing on the street are detained for 'unlawful exchange of genetic material', theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good, and thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn142's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Thorn142 is ranked 275,679^th in the world and 3^rd in CounterLaunch for Most Secular, with 10.43 Atheism Rate.