The State of Thornborough is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 39.134 billion Thornboroughians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The large, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westminster. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 33.5%.

The thriving Thornboroughian economy, worth a remarkable 1,405 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Average income is 35,905 betales, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 169,161 per year while the poor average 4,525, a ratio of 37.4 to 1.

Foreigners are treated with great suspicion, Thornborough has designated Westminster as its capital city, The Governor has just been declared ruler of Thornborough in an international press conference, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime is moderate. Thornborough's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Thornborough is ranked 212,977^th in the world and 579^th in Ancient Lands for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -1.98 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.