Back in 2009, NBC blessed the world with the workplace sitcom about a Parks and Recreation department set in a small town in Indiana and made audiences everywhere dream of working for their local government office. The characters and their hilarious escapades encapsulated how any small town in America could have countless stories to tell.

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Regardless of how much the Pawnee, Indiana parks and recreation department actually got done during the seven-year-long series, there were a few members of the staff who weren't exactly firing on all cylinders. Here's our list of the main characters of Parks and Recreation ranked by intelligence.

Andy Dwyer

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Raise your hand if you didn't know the answer to this question (please put your hand down, Andy). The lovable goofball that was barely part of the actual parks and rec department never had much of a chance when it comes to an IQ test. Oddly enough, despite Andy's complete absent-mindedness and utter lack of formal intelligence, he tried to become a cop during season 5 of the show and was the only person in history to get a 100 on the writing portion of the exam.

It's just a good thing that Andy found April so she can help balance out some of his dazed-and-confused personality.

Jerry Gergich

Jerry and his wife smiling in Parks and Recreation

Is it Jerry or Garry? Or Larry? Or Terry? For God's sake, they're all terrible. The butt of the joke for nearly the entire series, Jerry was always at the ready whenever somebody else in the office needed a useless or mundane task completed.

Jerry loved doing paperwork and organizing files but also crumbled when anything more than mediocre was expected of him. His only source of possible intelligence was landing his absolute smoke-show of a wife, Gayle, and they never revealed how he did it on the show so it honestly becomes a moot point. R.I.P. Mayor Gergich.

Tom Haverford

Tom Haverford in Parks and Recreation

How many failed businesses can you have before you realize that owning a business might not be for you? Tom Haverford had so much confidence throughout the series that it literally burst out of him in a relentless, never-ending tirade of 'swagger' jokes and way-too-expensive designer clothes. Tom may have been a unique character, and often the source of a good laugh, but for somebody to finally become successful by writing about how much they've failed? Not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.

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Plus, anybody stupid enough to go into business with Jean-Ralphio must have a few fried brain cells.

Donna Meagle

Donna and Tom drink wine and toast each other in Parks and Recreation

Nobody would ever classify Donna as stupid, but when it came to intelligence, she could have been smarter than Albert Einstein himself and she probably would've kept it under wraps. Donna was a secretive, aloof person throughout the show, always appearing randomly and quite often in style where nobody would ordinarily expect her.

But the show even divulged in the final episode that Donna lived an incredibly immaculate and interesting life by doing such things as placing 9th in Italy's Got Talent and working on a Nascar pit crew. For all we know, Donna probably had an IQ of 200 - but she'd never tell us.

Ann Perkins

Ann looks at the camera in disgust in Parks and Recreation.

Ann was a character whose personality the show never delved very deep into simply because she was meant to be a side-kick character, thus leaving a lot of her actual character a mystery. During the seven years the show ran, Ann had a different boyfriend almost every season and would quickly copy-cat whatever personality her boyfriend had. In fact, even during the times when she didn't have a boyfriend she became more involved with Leslie and adopted a bunch of her traits.

But one thing that proves Ann is at least somewhat intelligent is that she's a nurse - we might not know much about her, but she's gotta have a decent-sized brain to be able to do that.

Chris Traeger

Parks and Rec Ben and Chris

The man who is planning on being the first human being to reach the age of 150 is undoubtedly intelligent. Taking care of a person's body is a life-long process that shouldn't be undervalued in terms of intelligence needed in order to commit to it, and for Chris Traeger, the man who compared his body to a micro-chip, his health and nutrition intelligence was unparalleled.

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But Chris wasn't just smart because of what great shape he kept himself in, but also because he was the city manager of Pawnee for a multitude of seasons. Being in charge of an entire city would require some comprehensive brain-power.

April Ludgate

Donna might have been hiding some sort of secret intelligence that she refused to share with the world, but one thing is certain - April is an evil genius. Again, much like Donna, there isn't enough technical proof from the series for it to be undisputed, but we'd be willing to wager that April's IQ is above just about anybody else's in the Parks and Recreation universe.

She does, however, get one of the highest rankings on our list because now and then this sadistic slacker would find a project she was passionate about and blow everybody away with her remarkable capabilities. Why can't more people be like April?

Ben Wyatt

Leslie and Ben laugh together at the Harvest Festival in Parks and Recreation

The addition of Ben Wyatt at the end of season 2 was one of the best choices that the series made, especially because it finally gave the show somebody witty and clever enough to compete with Leslie on a day-to-day basis. Ben was sly and unrelenting in his first few episodes but slowly began to loosen up thanks to Leslie's constant can-do attitude.

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He quickly showed that his shut-off personality was simply because he didn't have somebody like Leslie in his life and once that problem was remedied he began using his intelligence for winning City Council and Congressional campaigns rather than hacking city budgets. Ben was a shell that Leslie was just waiting to crack open.

Ron Swanson

Ludgate may have been the apprentice, but Swanson was the master. The man that was more of a legend was undoubtedly smarter than every one of his parks and rec subordinates, and it had nothing to do with his superior position. Ron made it clear from the get-go that he was simply a government employee so that he could "take the beast down from the inside," but that didn't mean his intelligence was wasted as he was just about the most skilled craftsmen the world has ever seen.

Ben may have been the back-and-forth partner Leslie needed, but Ron could've easily taken her in any argument - he just never cared enough to ever want too.

Leslie Knope

The undisputed queen of Pawnee, Indiana. Not the most coveted title, but considering she rode it all the way to becoming the President of the United States (that's right, we're assuming it was her and not Ben) it's a pretty clear consensus that Leslie Knope had the biggest brain in the parks and rec department. She consistently did the work of ten employees, often taking on entire projects by herself and completing them in half the time her coworkers would take.

Leslie is the epitome of the perfect worker and emulates the term "intelligence" like no other character of this small-town sitcom.

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