Resource rich countries don’t decide “how much of a dictatorship should I be?”, it’s rather that an organization with very strong moral mazes dynamics can manage to do resource extraction but they don’t manage more complicated processes.
You can’t easily move to a less corrupt military in peacetime just because you think you need a functioning military because the military lacks good feedback cycles.
Complete focus on military strength is how you get to the kind of governance that North Korea has.
Resource rich countries don’t decide “how much of a dictatorship should I be?”, it’s rather that an organization with very strong moral mazes dynamics can manage to do resource extraction but they don’t manage more complicated processes.
You can’t easily move to a less corrupt military in peacetime just because you think you need a functioning military because the military lacks good feedback cycles.
Complete focus on military strength is how you get to the kind of governance that North Korea has.