The arrows designate interactions between different processes:

1: The authorities put efforts in establishing control over media.

2: The authorities irresponsibly spend public money on PR, populism, propaganda, demagogy, corruption.

3: The authorities employ loyal and obedient people in the administration regardless of their competence. Competent people are either degraded or laid off.

4: The authorities degenerate the educational system through establishing incompetence and reducing investments.

5: Controlled biased media generate populist propaganda and fallacies to brainwash the population and stigmatize any critics of the authorities.

6: Poor education generates poorly competent people.

7: Controlled biased media hide the public debt from the citizens and picture a virtual strong economy. The increasing of the public debt, which is a national moral hazard, thus proceeds with ease.

8: The ever increasing public debt poses great risks to economic security of the population.

9: Incompetent people are not productive and in effect reduce the overall economic security.

10: Incompetent people get hired in public administration in return for their loyalty, active support and votes. Also, the authorities corrupt the private sector by favoring certain business circles in return for political and financial support.

11: Lowered economic security gives rise to anxiety, uncertainty and irrational behavior among ordinary people.

12: Lowered economic security pushes people to look for more secure jobs in businesses either directly or indirectly controlled by authorities.

13: Misbeliefs, misconceptions, prejudices give rise to hate and intolerance especially towards outgroup members.

14: People become more selfish and hypocritical while trying to sustain economic security for their families directly or indirectly (working in corrupt businesses) provided by the authorities.

15: Being economically dependent on the state budget, people justify their self-interest by legitimizing/voting for the ruling people/party.

16: Being brainwashed by the propaganda, people believe the ruling people/party is the best choice.

17: Led by their self-interest, people vote and legitimize untrustworthy politicians.

18: Untrustworthy politicians take the power and go for their egotistic objectives.

The processes carry on continuously in loop until a major collapse occurs.