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According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Universe has an infinite area ( as far as anyone can make out ), no imports whatsoever ( because the Universe has no outside from which to import anything ), exports ( ditto ), art ( because " the function of art is to hold a mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough "), or population ( because its population, by definition, must be finite, and the number of planets is infinite, as there is infinite space to put them in ; not all planets are inhabited, and any finite number divided by infinity is zero, or as near to it as makes no odds ), or sex ( well, there is an awful lot of this, largely because of the total lack of anything else that might keep the non-existent people of the universe occupied ).
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