The long read: In the 1980s, South African libertarians set up a deregulated zone that they sold to the world as ‘Africa’s Switzerland’. It was a sham, but with its clusters of sweatshops, it was very modern – and in some ways it anticipated the world we live in today
Keeping up the pattern: The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea isn’t democratic, isn’t a republic, and don’t do shit for the people.
“The United States of America” is left as an exercise for the student in the creative use of naming to conceal truths.