Banana republic

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In political science, the term banana republic describes a politically and economically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the export of natural resources. A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, where the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class. Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely stratified social classes, usually a large impoverished working class and a ruling class plutocracy, composed of business, political, and military elites. The ruling class controls the primary sector of the economy by exploiting labor. Such exploitation is enabled by collusion between the state and favored economic monopolies, in which the profit, derived from the private exploitation of public lands, is private property. At the same time, the debts incurred are the responsibility of the public treasury. Therefore, the term banana republic is a pejorative descriptor for a servile oligarchy...

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