The Five Nations had vastly different developmental tendencies, making it hard to say who was advanced and who was backward. Blood Moon's necromantic industry had reached its peak; not a single corpse went to waste. Gospel excelled at nationwide coordinated production. Star had the cleanest and fairest bureaucratic system. Earth Abyss used Void Creatures to participate in production and reproduction. Paradise could let souls ascend to Eternal Paradise... The only fair assessment was that each had its strengths and weaknesses. But if "proportion of artificers" was the sole standard, then Gospel undoubtedly crushed the other nations. Under an active and comprehensive educational guidance system, Gospel Artificers made up an astonishing 10.19% of the population. Although the vast majority remained Silver Arcanists their entire lives and did not even dare explore the Void Realm to condense Void Wings, it was precisely because of such an outstanding demographic dividend that Gospel Country had been able to seize the initiative in the tide of Five Nations unification and take the largest slice of the pie.
Absorbing advanced foreign technologies and tapping foreign market potential, Gospel saw six hundred small and micro enterprises born every day. Gospel alone occupied 30% of the transport quota for the Permanent Void Gate; it was practically Gospel dumping goods on the other four nations. Even if the other four nations were jealous, there was nothing they could do. At most, they could sign large orders between states, but private trade depended entirely on the initiative of entrepreneurs.
They could not even protect their own markets by raising tariffs—Multistar Supreme had been extremely forceful and imposed a blanket policy, setting extraordinarily loose trade rules. The Five Nations now presented a flourishing scene where all things competed to surge forth. Even Star Country gained little advantage from it; instead, it