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“Through Nuclear Might, Mandarins Prevail”

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The Nuclear-Mandarin Technate of 1000000 Burning Biologists is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Supreme Technarch-Executor Xu Sheng with an iron fist, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.585 billion biologists are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Science Team Headquarters. The average income tax rate is 68.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient 1000000 Burning Biologistsian economy, worth 65.7 trillion Christian Hotel Soaps a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. Average income is 41,426 Christian Hotel Soaps, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the 1000000 Burning Biologists Blood Tithe, teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough, the police have been known to wiretap confessional boxes, and the inchworm that measured the marigolds is six feet under. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 1000000 Burning Biologists's national animal is the cheese moles, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is state atheism.

1000000 Burning Biologists is ranked 283,034^th in the world and 27^th in Shadowport for Most Cultured, scoring 55 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.