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>how the fuck are they meant to survive anywhere beyond a century or two?
Such an interest assumes at bare minimum that most people in power care about such things, and that they aren't engineered inrto power to ensure a nation dies in a century or two by somebody with limited means of manipulation.
That is to say, suvival and advancent of a nation in bad position or in failure modes becomes partially incidental, because the continuously decreasing amount of people with power that actually care is outnumbered and has to wrangle and circumnavigate everyone just to keep the entire system afloat.
Look at modern day EU party members, or some (((Katz))) in Gosduma, do you think they care about anything otheeer than a cushy chair?
Can you imagine the sheer international bitching if someone like Pavel I ended up ruling modern Europe or Britain? The sheer state of things.