This game compares resident patent applications scaled to population.

• The underlying source counts resident patent applications, then this build scales them to applications per million people so giant populations do not dominate by default.
• This is about filing activity, not a clean scoreboard of innovation quality or scientific virtue.
• Patent systems, industrial structure, legal incentives, and who can afford to file all shape the number.

A patent count can look like pure genius when it often starts as infrastructure, law, and who gets to formalize an idea.