>>324928It'd be pretty bad if you made Russia a proper technological state, given its vector of force depends on exploiting primeval character. You don't need to extend spy and monitoring apparatus beyond stationing humans for the task. Giving people a spy-device and having cameras everywhere won't do. Rather, stationing spies, watchers and men here and there and everywhere is good.
This is a country fashioned so only one region is developed, that being the HQ and place wherein the president rests. Everywhere else, development should be no more than what the common Polish household had in 1994.
Should Russia become significantly more tech-advanced and should monitoring function through complex contraption as opposed to the most simple of means, the primeval element distributed across the nation will vanish, making rebellion and insurgency more likely. This is in contrast to regions elsewhere in the world where urbanization and deploying of devices and cameras lessens rebellion. In Russia, the more widespread opulence becomes, the faster disaster brews. Letting things operate as nature intended with the farmers farming and the business men tending to kiosks and the mechanics doing what they do more than suffices to keeping a lid on things. But if the Russian is thoroughly modernized and given access to all amenities the rest of the world enjoys, the first thing he'll do is stage a a coup d'etatat, and then another, and then another.
The country should be no more modern than Mongolia, which soon it will annex, with some toleration accepted by the spoilt Kazakhstan, which soon it will annex.
Gog and Magog should be just that–savages. Not creatures who carry around future-tier tech. Some fairly modern amenities are acceptable sure, but no further than in Moscow and its outermost zones.
Otherwise, Russia will spiral to collapse. Only diminishment and grey miasma keeps that from happening. Stepping beyond ersatz good and into true good makes the country fall apart.
All that said, Russian borders should be tightened against the Chinese, and maybe it's best to conceive a more robust new intelligence agency. Though saying this, the paradox of a not really monitored but really monitored state via conventional means somehow has to be maintained. It should be possible to run into the forests and escape in the mountains… in i
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