China

Feverishly industrial, hard working, vast inscrutable USA bothering Asian country which will likely be in charge of everything by the end of the 21st century, by which time they will probably have designed and built something with which to sink Japan.

Single-minded in their desire to maintain power, following the 1989 disturbances, the ruling Party commissioned the largest study ever conducted into why - going back as far as the Egyptians - regimes and Empires had collapsed, with a view to avoiding any traps previously encountered. So far, breeding localised majorities into national minorities appears to be the only policy change publicly known. Crazy, amazing place.