Contained in the nation with guidelines so weird it makes North Korea look ‘regular’

Dictatorships are bizarre locations and fairly often include all kinds of guidelines to fulfill the ego of the particular person on the high of the tree.

There’ll fairly often be gaudy ceremonies designed to lavish unearned reward onto the expensive chief and salve their insecurities that they are not truly all they’re cracked as much as be.

When many individuals consider a dictatorship with bizarre guidelines, they will consider North Korea, which tries to cease its personal individuals from leaving and solely desires them watching sure issues.

Grand monuments and tasks which frequently do naff all whereas the individuals who construct them stay in abject poverty and repression are frequent, and whereas there’s a lot to seek out ridiculous, these are nonetheless nations the place the populace stay in concern and distress.

One other nation which suffers beneath a dictatorship is Turkmenistan, which is dominated by former dentist Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow and his son Serdar.

A number of the bizarre guidelines they’ve imposed on their individuals embrace how all of the vehicles within the capital metropolis of Ashgabat should be white, so when a gaggle of holiday makers ended up going there as a part of a documentary from Nova Productions, they found the airport automotive park was stuffed with simply white painted automobiles.

The white color décor continues in Ashgabat, which is named the ‘white marble metropolis’, because it is filled with buildings constructed out of the stone. In 2013, it earned a Guinness World Report for the town with essentially the most white marble buildings at 543.

Nonetheless, there will not be many individuals round to understand the structure because the visiting reporters (who saved their precise job a secret) noticed that in a metropolis with an official inhabitants of round 900,000, they could not see any pedestrians and just a few vehicles going by.

Those that are within the metropolis should make themselves scarce by 11.00pm, because the group have been advised by their handler, ‘it could be a lot better to your security when you come again earlier than 11 o’clock’.

If the streets appeared empty in the course of the day, they have been fully naked at night time, and an 11.00pm curfew has been in place for the reason that COVID pandemic, which seems to not have been lifted.

For these few vacationers who do go to Turkmenistan and need to take some pictures, there are even guidelines about the place you’ll be able to take footage of the landmarks.

Not that you just’d be capable of share it whereas there, as a result of one other rule is that every one social media apps are banned for most individuals.

They met a person who claimed in any other case, exhibiting them his Instagram account, however they later found he was permitted to make use of it to make assaults on individuals who converse out in opposition to the dictatorship.

Elsewhere on their journey to Turkmenistan, the journalists visited a grocery store the place all the meals was old-fashioned, with a few of the merchandise on the cabinets marked as going off in 2022.

It could actually concurrently be a weird place obsessive about assortment Guinness World Data for numerous buildings and a frighteningly repressive nation the place the ruling regime has a lot energy they’ll set up bizarre guidelines like vehicles within the capital metropolis having to be white.