The Dictatorship of Thorn273 is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its closed borders, state-planned economy, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 4.639 billion Thorn273ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 72.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn273ian economy, worth 504 trillion lilangenis 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. 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 108,748 lilangenis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is a proud sponsor of the National Gaming Association, the nation's once beautiful countryside has turned brown as farmers spray potent pesticides, cheese lovers have a case of the bleus, and troops are either deafened by gunfire or a hysterical voice screaming the Party manifesto. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn273's national animal is the cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Thorn273 is ranked 44,492^nd in the world and 409^th in Suspicious for Largest Governments, scoring 23.52 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.