The Confederacy of Thorn281 is a mammoth, orderly nation, notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, aversion to nipples, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.203 billion Thorn281ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 79.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn281ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,067 trillion ouguiyas 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 a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 130,089 ouguiyas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Bowling teams spend more time looking at their phones than the pins, war criminals are given full state funerals, CSI Forest is this year's hit new crime show, and old people living in plastic bubbles complain about a new type of social isolation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn281's national animal is the gyrfalcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Thorn281 is ranked 308,731^st in the world and 2,183^rd in the Rejected Realms for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -23 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.