What Countries Do

All countries are controlled by their governments. Their main priority for the government is to keep themselves in control.  They spend all of their time with Big Money.

All of their laws revolve around increasing government revenue.  Government is their primary special interest group.

They get most of their revenue from Big Money, so they consider Big Money to be their secondary special interest group. 

This self-interest is more visible in state, county and city activities in the US. Most Bills passed in state legislatures allow cities, counties and other governmental entities to extort more money from citizens without their permission.

Countries establish a military force to make sure citizens don’t get tired of being poor and decide to overthrow the government.  They spend money on infrastructure Big Money wants to have to enable them to make more money.

Elections are rigged to ensure that only Big Money friendly candidates are placed on the ballot. You can see what countries have a high nominal GDP and very low nominal Per Capita GDP. These are the countries who are ignoring their citizens. 

When countries land mass is large but their GDP is not as large as it could be, this often indicates that they don’t have the capital to develop their underused resources. Russia occupies 6.6 million square miles and is the largest country on the planet.

The average country GDP is the total global nominal GDP 77.988 trillion divided by the 191 countries on the list. The average country GDP is $40.83 billion.

Of the 191 countries listed on GDP by Country 2017, 55 countries have a GDP under $10 billion. Another 46 have a GDP from $10 billion $40 billion. That means a total of 101 countries, or 53% have GDPs below the average.

The next 29 countries have a GDP from $40 billion $100 billion.  Another 46 countries have a GDP from $100 billion to $1 trillion.

There are 16 countries with a GDP over $1 trillion and some of these have very poor populations with low nominal Per Capita GDPs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)

There are many relatively rich countries with poor populations. Those countries make it difficult or impossible for citizens to own their own land. In many countries, private land ownership is banned or severely limited for citizens, but not limited for Big Money. In many other countries, citizens can own their own land, but household incomes are kept so low that these families can never save enough money to buy land.

Some countries with poor populations have descent education systems where citizens can become educated to move to other countries who will hire them. These citizens often never return to their home countries, because they don’t have free economies.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader