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The Mantodea of Praying Mantis is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Giant Mantis with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 14.953 billion Praying Mantisians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Metal Mantis. The average income tax rate is 39.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Praying Mantisian economy, worth a remarkable 1,993 trillion pop tarts a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 133,324 pop tarts, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

The nation has an international reputation for compassion, the media seems excessively interested in what Giant Mantis is wearing this season, there is something rotten in the state of Praying Mantis, and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is illegal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Praying Mantis's national animal is the praying mantis, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Mantism.

Praying Mantis is ranked 18,477^th in the world and 1^st in Top Hat Kingdom for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 322.44 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.