Dragon Country

Biodata

Background / History

Target of *Racial Insight*

Dragon Country was a rising nation when the Ten Conglomerates launched Racial Insight. Although the program advertised a competition to identify the most outstanding nation, its underlying purpose was to undermine Dragon Country’s national confidence and cultural pride through its contestant’s behavior 1.

The conglomerates selected Jiang Ye after investigating Dragon Country’s students abroad and excluding candidates with military training. They considered him an ordinary young man without a notable background. His assigned island city was outside Dragon Country, and its other residents were secretly evacuated for the program 2 44.

Dragon Country’s authorities established a special department under Zhang Puze to handle the situation. Zhang understood the conglomerates’ objective but argued that the country should trust Jiang Ye. The authorities had agreed to the arrangement in exchange for a high payment, believing their cultural values could withstand the experiment; they initially expected only a passable performance from him 3.

Efforts to Bring Jiang Ye Home

Jiang Ye’s mathematical breakthroughs changed the government’s assessment of his importance. After Elder Yang verified his early work and identified him as a potential leader of the national mathematics community, Zhang Puze began seeking his removal from the show 12.

Officials increasingly regarded Jiang Ye’s prominence as a danger to his safety. Zhang argued that he could receive support for his research after returning home. The conglomerates nevertheless insisted that he remain: his achievements had strengthened Dragon Country’s pride, and replacing him would leave that result intact 28 29.

Smear Campaign and the Sunset Plan

The DuPont Consortium arranged to pay domestic figures to turn public opinion against Jiang Ye. Influencers spread claims that he was a government-backed fraud who already knew about the show and was copying proofs supplied by the state. At the height of the backlash, the narrative reported that 70 percent of domestic viewers were demanding his departure 29 31 32.

Even Zhang’s colleagues briefly questioned whether the government had secretly arranged Jiang Ye’s success. A senior official rejected the theory, pointing out that researchers would not willingly surrender the recognition, wealth, and status attached to three world-class conjectures. He ordered Zhang to act against those attacking Jiang Ye 31.

Zhang’s team investigated Chen Haoyu, a central figure in the campaign, and confronted him while he was speaking with Charlie of the DuPont Consortium. After leading mathematicians confirmed Jiang Ye’s Riemann Hypothesis proof, Zhang launched the Sunset Plan across major internet platforms. The official daily published recordings of Chen’s calls with the conglomerates and announced bans and fines affecting accounts, influencers, and platforms 33 38 39.

Tiger Incident and Suspected Superpowers

Dragon Country’s official daily condemned the production team’s decision to use a tiger to redirect Jiang Ye toward survival activities, warning of uncontrollable risks. When the tiger escaped the crew’s control and approached his route, Zhang urgently contacted the production team, but its staff stalled his calls 40 42.

After Jiang Ye killed the tiger with six pistol shots, Charlie and chief director William suspected that he was a Dragon Country agent. Zhang’s own investigation found no record of him in the major military regions’ special forces or national-security departments, and no such connections among his relatives or acquaintances 44 45.

As observers began interpreting Jiang Ye’s learning speed and physical performance as supernatural abilities, Dragon Country joined other governments and the conglomerates in searching for hidden ability users. Zhang argued that Jiang Ye might possess two powers and described his potential scientific value as equivalent to all the country’s scientists combined 47.

A government think tank also devised a deterrence operation: stage apparent supernatural feats using magic tricks, detain foreigners—particularly white foreigners—and claim they were ability users. The intended leverage was the threat of retaliation against these supposed assets if the conglomerates harmed Jiang Ye. The plan depended on the conglomerates being unwilling to gamble on whether the claims were genuine 47.

Jiang Ye’s successful industrial-machine repairs convinced many observers that supernatural abilities existed. Soon afterward, Charlie received a report that a suspected white ability user had appeared in Dragon Country and had been taken away by its authorities 48.

Government and Academic Institutions

Society and Public Response

• Restricted international access: Only a small fraction of domestic viewers could bypass the firewall to participate on international platforms; separate domestic livestream discussions were active 1 2.
• Divided reactions to Jiang Ye: Domestic viewers defended him against nationalist insults but also questioned his decision to study mathematics instead of gathering food or establishing shelter 6 9 19.
• National identification: While recording humanity’s achievements for a future civilization, Jiang Ye explicitly introduced himself as a Dragon Country citizen 25 27.
• Interest in ability-user children: After the machine repairs, viewers discussed finding partners and having children in the hope of producing ability users. The narration states that Jiang Ye’s actions would indirectly raise birth rates in Dragon Country and elsewhere 48.

Notable Quotes

“The motherland would not abandon any of her sons.”
— Dragon Country’s official platform, announcing support for Jiang Ye 17

“I am Jiang Ye, a Dragon Country citizen and an insignificant member of humanity. Thank you!”
— Jiang Ye, concluding his presentation of Goldbach’s Conjecture 27