The Oppressed Peoples of Thorn32 is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, public floggings, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 4.999 billion Thorn32ians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 84.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn32ian economy, worth 703 trillion Golds 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 a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. 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 140,674 Golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Paralegals spend all day Hewlett-Packing attorneys' law briefs, only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile, burial ceremonies have become as routinised as tax forms, and government employees are authorized driver's licenses to get their bosses much-needed morning espressos. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn32's national animal is the Rattlesnake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Thorn32 is ranked 125,327^th in the world and 3,394^th in Suspicious for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,514.64 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.