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Additionally, Burma and Khmer Rouge-ruled Cambodia are also Orwellian style regimes in my opinion. The Khmer Rouge created their own calender, shut the populace off from the world and pushed them into the fields for work, created a siege mentality during the war against the Lon Nol government by saying indiscriminate American cluster bombings were an attempt to destroy Cambodia and executed both anyone who looked vaguely intelligent (glasses were a sure sign) as well as millions of their own people.

Burma maintains a state of emergency by saying that the factions in their long running civil war (since 1948 ironically enough) are constantly promoting uprisings and recruiting from their ethnic minorites, prompting violent retribution and presumably ethic cleansing. They also are one of the world's most undeveloped nations, suffering from the past government's superstitions in dealing with life (let's make all the roads and steering wheels go to the right because we can't be leftist or something equally ridiculous). Additionally, the regime is weak against pretty much anybody with a half-decent military, so they moved the capital to the center of the nation to protect against both "color revolutions" and US Marine landings by being hard to reach.