The Nationstates nationstates of Thorn1000 is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Battlemaster Thorn with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, enforced nudity, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 12.146 billion Thornians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Utopia. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn1000ian economy, worth a remarkable 4,970 trillion Dragon Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 409,221 Dragon Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,694,592 per year while the poor average 5,497, a ratio of 672 to 1.

Mathematicians are gathering an infinite number of Peregrine Falcons and typewriters to see if they can recreate the works of Max Barry, mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation, citizens complain about a burning sensation after bathing, and fiscal policy hawks decry the sizable "panem et circenses" fund added to the public budget. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn1000's national animal is the Peregrine Falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Raiding.

Thorn1000 is ranked 293,170^th in the world and 275^th in The Brotherhood of Malice for Nicest Citizens, with 0.11 average smiles per day.