^I dont understand why people live like that. Rise up! Throw off the shackles of your oppressor! 25.16 million citizens would have no problem overthrowing them. Same with China, put those 1.371 billion bodies to good use and take over the place.
My working theory it that the citizens just don't know what the rest of the world is like. Keep people in isolation long enough and remove any source of outside information, and maybe they just think everything is as its supposed to be. Poor schlubs.