The Protectorate of Thorn76 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, public floggings, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 5.505 billion Thorn76ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn76ian economy, worth 886 trillion Euros a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 161,099 Euros, with the richest citizens earning 5.6 times as much as the poorest.

Murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour, citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges, the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion, and cowboys often wear wolfskin jackets to the saloon. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn76's national animal is the Scorpion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Thorn76 is ranked 96,882^nd in the world and 1^st in The United Communes of Atlas for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 43,657.84 Standard Monetary Units.