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The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alexandria Innovation of Knowledge. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Compound Light Microscopean economy, worth a remarkable 1,761 trillion Diamond Rings a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 145,957 Diamond Rings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Compound Light Microscopeans are regularly fired for looking at MyFace during their lunch breaks, all the cool kids have tetanus, being wrong on the internet has been classified as digital terrorism, and people are left scratching their heads at the government's decisions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Compound Light Microscope's national animal is the Majestic Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Compound Light Microscope is ranked 41,245^th in the world and 40^th in Chicken overlords for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 208.12 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.