The Confederacy of Thorn87 is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.603 billion Thorn87ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 67.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn87ian economy, worth 648 trillion Monies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 140,958 Monies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence', the navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust, black market eau de toilette is made in bathroom labs across the nation, and police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn87's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Thorn87 is ranked 240,262^nd in the world and 6^th in Stepford County for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6.9 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.