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Its a clean, modern looking, efficient shithole.

Like Dubai, really.

Their entire legal system is a disaster, they have quite serious internet and press censorship regulations, serious issues with racial discrimination, systemic labour rights issues, its a de-facto (but not de-jure) one party state, and so on.

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Alright i see what you’re saying. I guess if that’s all true, then indeed it’s a shithole.

I find that characterization interesting as normally shithole is used for, “obviously looks shit”. What other places do you think are like this? And more interestingly i think, what about the reverse? What places look shit but are actually not and are really good?

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