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it's so funny that Norway is the only well-governed petrostate
this thought brought to you by me idly wondering “wait, was the Soviet Union a petrostate, or is that a Russian Federation phenomenon?” and finding this quite nice essay that answers that question among others https://www.russiamatters.org/analysis/twilight-petrostate
I do hope the Twilight of the Petrostate will indeed come. the wind has been blowing that way for a while