For damned good reason. "Self reliant" countries tend to behave like complete assholes internationally even by the standards of Realpolitik. North Korea is one

For damned good reason. "Self reliant" countries tend to behave like complete assholes internationally even by the standards of Realpolitik. North Korea is one of the most Autarkous nations on earth. The "victimized by a conspiracy" anthromorphization is also deeply wrong. They cannot be oppressed - they do not have rights. Governments are fundamentally made of coercion. Without it they are an empty pile of words, a rules card for poker when the deck is being used for blackjack or building houses of cards. The coercion may be used to support rights like "not being murdered" but granting it rights to further human rights is like trying to increase a number by multiplying a negative number by a grearer than one positive number. To sum it up if you apply the "corporation as a sociopath" conception governments are basically so alien to be cthulu. Corporations are at least made of people essentially, at least until the first AI run no human owner corporation is founded.