I’m reading about Lebanon and what it has been through, especially in the last several years. Inflation is out of control, where salaries are meaningless and grocers don’t even bother pricing their items because they can’t keep up with the changing rate. Basic human services like trash collection and electricity are not available. Citizens resort to holding banks up at gunpoint to get their own money out.
What happens when a country collapses? What does that really mean? What happens to all its people?
Edit to add another question: Is it actually possible for a country to be so mismanaged that its people literally all die out or leave?
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Yes countries can collapse and it is easier to achieve than many think. All you need is the population losing trust in the government enough and say: you don’t have the right to govern anymore. That’s the point when a country collapses. This results in complete anarchy, because everything in modern society is build on trust, from law enforcement to currency. Laws are just words we all agree to agree on and adhere by. If collectively people stop adhering, the law has no value and defacto seizes to exist. People don’t die from the collapse itself, but from the effects a collapse has on society.
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