Banana republic
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Banana republic is a political science term for a politically unstable country whose economy is largely dependent on the export of a single limited-resource product, such as bananas. It typically has stratified social classes, including a large, impoverished working class and a ruling plutocracy that comprises the elites of business, politics, and the military.
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See also
- Absurdistan
- Dictator novel
- Failed state
- Kangaroo court
- McOndo
- Neo-colonialism
- Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (1904), by Joseph Conrad
- Ruritania
- William Walker
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