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The United Kingdom of Thorn19

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The United Kingdom of Thorn19 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 6.409 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 79.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Thorn19ian economy, worth 976 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 152,407 Latinums, with the richest citizens earning 5.7 times as much as the poorest.

The new airport at Mr. Giles' farm is panicking his sheep, discarded pennies litter the streets, retiring citizens are dragged away in the middle of the night by mysterious men in black suits, and the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?". 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 44,497^th in the world and 1,022^nd in the Rejected Realms for Highest Poor Incomes, with 59,395.99 Standard Monetary Units.

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