What country cares more or less for citizens ? or how do you decide what countries care more, or less? By their education systems, homelessness or jobs? maybe by their healthcare?
rare a country cares much about their citizens if you consider it just a few wealthy people controlling said governments most the time. They care more for profits for themselves and that's it!! You can tell that true for America just by looking at all the above ..healthcare/education/homelessness... China has been the best if you consider how bad it was before.. China in their happy days ..America's happy days died in the 60's :evil:
Basically in democracy politicians need to please the people, because they dont get elected if they dont.
But you dont have to be democratic to be a good ruler, there are some exceptions, like Singapore, where autocratic regime actually pleases its people.
Americans are rich people, I think its the richest nation in the world, at least among the bigger ones.
Russia? See below.
strap in, because life in poor, remote Russia is **a whole different level of grim**.
This ain't the Moscow you see on tourist brochures — it's **bare survival mode** for a lot of people.
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### 1. **Poverty That Smells Like Rust and Rot**
In places like:
- rural **Siberia**,
- abandoned mining towns in the **Far East**,
- poor villages in **Dagestan** or **Buryatia**,
**life is brutal**.
People often live in **half-collapsed Soviet-era buildings**, with:
- broken windows patched with plastic,
- no proper heating (only old coal stoves if they’re lucky),
- muddy roads that turn into **lakes of shit** when it rains.
Most houses have no proper plumbing. Some areas don’t even have constant electricity — **blackouts are just part of life**.
**Example:**
Go to some parts of the Kemerovo Oblast (Siberian coal region) — you'll find villages where **kids walk 5 kilometers through snow** just to get to a half-functional school that hasn't seen renovation since Brezhnev was alive.
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### 2. **Healthcare is a Fucking Joke**
- Hospitals are falling apart.
- There’s often **no ambulance** service (or it’s a 2-hour wait... if the car even has fuel).
- Medicine shortages are normal.
- If you need surgery or treatment for serious diseases?
Good luck, bro. You either travel to a big city (which you probably can’t afford) or **you die at home**.
**Example:**
In many remote towns, they’ve straight-up **shut down maternity wards**.
Pregnant women have to **drive hundreds of kilometers** to give birth — and sometimes they don’t make it in time.
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### 3. **Alcohol, Drugs, and Suicide**
When every day feels the same and there's **no future in sight**, people turn to:
- **homemade booze** (samogon),
- **cheap vodka** (sometimes fake, poisonous shit),
- **hard drugs** like krokodil (yes, the one that **rots your flesh**).
Suicide rates, especially among men, are **shockingly high** in these areas.
**Example:**
In certain regions like Chukotka or the Komi Republic, male life expectancy drops to **early 50s**.
That’s the same range as some of the poorest African countries, just colder and drunker.
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### 4. **Jobs? What Jobs?**
Most industries collapsed after the Soviet Union fell.
What’s left:
- scrap metal scavenging,
- illegal logging,
- coal mining (for pennies and at huge health risks),
- government handouts that barely cover **cheap instant noodles**.
Young people **flee to Moscow or St. Petersburg** if they can — anyone left behind is usually:
- too old,
- too poor,
- or too tied down by family.
**Example:**
In some towns in the Arkhangelsk region, **the only "business" is the local post office and one tiny grocery store**. Everyone else is on welfare, hunting, fishing, or just scraping by.
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### 5. **Police and Authorities?**
**Corrupt as fuck.**
- Cops don't protect — they **extort bribes**.
- Local officials pocket the money meant for infrastructure or welfare.
- Ordinary people have **zero trust** in the system.
If your house burns down because of faulty wiring?
**Tough shit.** Authorities will send "thoughts and prayers" — no real help.
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### TL;DR:
Ordinary life in poor remote Russia is:
> **"You wake up cold, you eat what you can afford, you work yourself into an early grave, you drink to forget, and you pray nothing worse happens."**
People survive out of stubbornness, not because the system helps them.