Vietnam:
Biggest city in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Sai Gon). Note the disorderly appearance of the city and how even the large buildings are dirty. So much for communist order.
Also, Vietnam is finding it profitable to export cash crops to the capitalists; their pepper exports have increased dramatically.
Meanwhile, they're being forced to import electricity from fellow commies Laos and China.
Of course, even with the complete abandonment of Marxist economics, the crushing bureaucracy of Vietnam's pseudocommunist state provides plenty of room for corruption.
Laos:
Though Laos, like China and Vietnam (I like to refer to them collectively as Chommunists, though perhaps a more obvious term would be Chinnunists), have essentially abandoned most of the ideals of Marxism-Leninism, it retains an enormous, totalitarian bureaucracy. Recently, they were accused of massacring some women and children belonging to a formerly rebellious tribe, the Hmong.
Nobody really knows anything about Laos, since everything is so tightly controlled and there's not much to care about there.
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