A closer look

It turns out cramming 37 million hyper-productive people into a sprawling neon megalopolis does wonders for the bottom line. The GDP of the Greater Tokyo area sits at around $2 trillion, economically outmuscling entire sovereign nations like Canada, South Korea, and Russia. It is a terrifyingly efficient engine of capitalism, proving that geographical size means nothing when you have a densely packed population working ungodly hours to produce electronics, cars, and premium anime.