The Republic of Thorn8 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, daily referendums, and lack of airports. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.336 billion Thorn8ians 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 Education. The average income tax rate is 71.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn8ian economy, worth 715 trillion Idks a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 112,922 Idks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Voters who forget their name are given a hint, the national census includes an opt-in to join the government-run dating service, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, and escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn8's national animal is the Idk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Thorn8 is ranked 243,163^rd in the world and 7,535^th in Suspicious for Most Beautiful Environments, with 299.24 pounds of wildlife per square mile.