The Republic of Thorn5 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its disturbing lack of elderly people, public floggings, and compulsory vegetarianism. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.645 billion Thorn5ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 33.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn5ian economy, worth 892 trillion Idks 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. 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 134,241 Idks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 575,690 per year while the poor average 20,036, a ratio of 28.7 to 1.

Caroling is considered a public disturbance, frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, internet moderators work overtime to remove memes comparing Leader to cartoon bears, and saying that someone looks a bit pale can be construed as hate speech. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Thorn5's national animal is the Idk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Thorn5 is ranked 81,764^th in the world and 1,401^st in Suspicious for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 97.46 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.