The Holy Empire of Thorn30 is a titanic, efficient nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.163 billion Thorn30ians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 71.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn30ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,293 trillion Golds a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 127,324 Golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Enemy governments seem especially interested in Thorn30's election cycle, the "daily grind" consists of levelling up in tedious video games, juvenile delinquents are fitter than ever, and the military is on a massive recruiting drive in advance of an invasion of Brasilistan. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn30's national animal is the Rattlesnake, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Thorn30 is ranked 321,235^th in the world and 7^th in Dingus Capital Empire for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 13 on the Kitten Softness Rating.