The Republic of Thorn59 is a mammoth, orderly nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.755 billion Thorn59ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 70.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn59ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,449 trillion Euros 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. 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 148,600 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.6 times as much as the poorest.

Babies are a small but significant export, drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps", they who do not work shall not eat, and asking 'a penny for your thoughts?' draws law enforcement response. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn59's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Thorn59 is ranked 70,637^th in the world and 1^st in Viridian Sylph for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,461.82 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.