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The Colony of Makemake Planetoid is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Khan Noonien Singh with an iron fist, and notable for its irreverence towards religion, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 7.763 billion Makemake Planetoidians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of 136472 Makemake Base. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.8%.

The thriving Makemake Planetoidian economy, worth 634 trillion Palladium Ingots a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Information Technology. Average income is 81,693 Palladium Ingots, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 312,749 per year while the poor average 14,733, a ratio of 21.2 to 1.

Only persecuted professionals need apply for asylum, twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes, census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, and small shoes often wash up on the beach. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Makemake Planetoid's national animal is the Face Mite, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Panspermia.

Makemake Planetoid is ranked 89,068^th in the world and 9^th in An Island In Space for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 107.47 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.