An expert in geopolitics, asked me to define a failed state. I wasn't prepared to provide a good answer.
Pffft. Moron.
A failed state is a state where the focus of the state activity has diminished to merely preserving continuity of the state; vis a vi, they can do nothing but stay in power.
Pffft. Moron.
A failed state is a state where the focus of the state activity has diminished to merely preserving continuity of the state; vis a vi, they can do nothing but stay in power.
So... Zumastan, Haiti and Cub(isti)a, then?
Hell, that, uhh, largely sounds like it describes the Victorian and Western Australian state governments, too, if I'm being blunt...
Which I would have tongue-in-cheek referred to as (literal) "failed states", but I had never actually seen it defined like that before, lol...
That's a damn good definition, actually.