Countries that are cut off from the world (even with onerous trade sanctions) do not have a good record of changing their ways. Stories like this push for refor

Countries that are cut off from the world (even with onerous trade sanctions) do not have a good record of changing their ways. Stories like this push for reform - which is both how we got our awful border controls and how we'll get rid of them. If nothing else it means that people self-select out of a system that doesn't work for them, meaning the system will never work for them. Not a good way to run things.