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“The integral of e to the x is f of u sub n!”

The People's Ambient Technocracy of Mathematania is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Calculo Calculi with a fair hand, and remarkable for its absence of drug laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 10.216 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 100%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising fourteen-year-old boys selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

The government is avowedly atheist, houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries, Max Barry is this year's Miss Mathematania, and artists are pillars of society. Crime is totally unknown. Mathematania's national animal is the rainbow horned toad, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the cpu.

Mathematania is ranked 16th in the region and 834th in the world for Most Godforsaken.