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The Advanced functions of The tensor field is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, punitive income tax rates, and complete absence of social welfare. The cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.464 billion tensorians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.6%.

The frighteningly efficient tensor fieldian economy, worth 846 trillion entanglements 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 a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 189,609 entanglements, with the richest citizens earning 9.6 times as much as the poorest.

The government has officially clarified that "wee on your hands to save time" does not count as proper hygiene, cars are banned, foreign policy is mostly just to smile and hope for the best, and exceptionally talented workers are praised more than Revolutionary heroes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The tensor field's national animal is the Schrödinger's cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The tensor field is ranked 18,541^st in the world and 31^st in eta for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 321.69 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.