while all these things are true, they're not great descriptions of a banana republic.

Feel free to add the ones that you think that are, as long as they apply.

- Sham judicial processes used to strongarm officials? Check.

From Wikipedia:

> the term banana republic describes a politically and economically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the export of natural resource.

The dependence upon natural resource may be hard to check.

	▲	jacquesm a day ago \| parent [-]
		Give it some time, they're emulating russia in just about every other respect as well.