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We restrict our attention to a purely mechanical setting, so the thermodynamic structure rests on an energy imbalance that serves in lieu of the first and second laws of thermodynamics. We consider only nematic elastomers that are incompressible and microstructurally inextensible. In our treatment of these material constraints, we start with a mathematical decomposition of the dependent fields based on the geometry of the constraint manifold. This naturally gives rise to active and reactive components, where only the former enter into the energy imbalance because the latter automatically expend zero power in processes consistent with the constraints. The reactive components are scaled by constitutively indeterminate multipliers. We introduce constitutive equations for the active components, and the requirement that these equations be consistent with the energy imbalance in all processes leads to the active components being determined by an energy density response function depending on the deformation gradient, the orientation, and the orientation gradient. After enforcing the requirements of observer independence and material symmetry for such a function, the representation is expressed in terms of 40 scalar invariants. To obtain a reduced form of the energy response function, we use a polynomial approximation, in terms of the invariants in which we view the principal extension ratios and the magnitude of the nondimensionalized orientation gradient as small quantities. Our energy density encompasses the successful Mooney-Rivlin description of rubber and the Oseen-Zocher-Frank description of nematic fluids as specializations. 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