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> super widespread corruption
that one definitely made it into popular knowledge about russia here too. I am guessing it came from the cold war, or maybe before.

> especially when the country is big and so it's hard to control everyone even if you'd try
most of history we were close to literally ungovernable by a far away (that's starting at like three-four towns away inside switzerland) government too - in a weird way, i can relate

but the system adapted for letting the locals govern local things

> a mechanism to keep everyone potentially on the hook for something, should the state need to find something to get the person repressed
ah, what a bad idea

> lack of laws to regulate specific things
some issue in the state duma? or in the federation council?

> Those forest "aren't for you", people sell that to china and other places.
that still boggles my mind, half the sparsely inhabited country is forest

thanks for this detailed response btw