It is often said that eliminating poverty, lifting nations out of underdevelopment, building infrastructure, and mastering complex modern manufacturing are among the hardest tasks for any country—and rightly so. Such undertakings demand time, resources, and resilience against entrenched interests, geographical constraints, and economic limitations. Yet what should be simple, what should be achievable even with limited resources, is the consistent enforcement of laws, routine maintenance, procedural checks, inspections, and the everyday discipline that keeps a nation running and........

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