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He owns Springfield's Nuclear Power Plant and is portrayed as the prototype of an early capitalist exploiter, and is always a little behind times (for example, he thinks Prussia? still exists). He is almost always accompanied by his assistant [/Waylon? Smithers].
Due to his status as the town's leading (and perhaps only) plutocrat, Mr. Burns is able to do whatever he wants with little or no consequences.