The United Kingdom of Thorn19 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 6.383 billion Thorn19ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 79.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn19ian economy, worth 955 trillion Latinums 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. 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 149,619 Latinums, with the richest citizens earning 7.2 times as much as the poorest.

Former stunt pilots are unable to pass the licence test to fly a drone, pitchforks and torches are coming back into fashion, courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant Thorn19ians, and polygraphs are relegated to the dungeon exhibit in castle museums. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn19's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Thorn19 is ranked 202,644^th in the world and 4,224^th in the Rejected Realms for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 30,372.76 Standard Monetary Units.