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The Kingdom of Thorncross

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The Kingdom of Thorncross is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by King Cwichelm with an even hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 10.762 billion Thorncrossians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wicken Hill. The average income tax rate is 67.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Thorncrossian economy, worth 777 trillion vects a year, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 72,287 vects, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lobbyists are trying to convince government to recategorize most natural disasters as "non-critical naturogenic inconveniences", veteran cops reminisce over their heavy armor days, tax avoidance is a serious affair, and childhood friends of King Cwichelm are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorncross's national animal is the kangaroo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is pagan.

Thorncross is ranked 43,671^st in the world and 19^th in Vectis for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 4,865.51 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.

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