Appendix of darkness.

• Author: Sullum, Jacob
• Position: Briefly Noted - Brief article

In The Red Chapel (2009), undercover Danish documentarian Mads Brugger visited North Korea as a member of a fake theater company. In The Ambassador (2011), now out on DVD, he ventures into the Central African Republic (CAR) as an emissary of Liberia for a similarly sardonic look at an appalling political situation.

"Some call it a failed state," Brugger says, "but this could only be true if at some point there had been a functioning state structure." The CAR'S kleptocracy clearly fails at providing security, but in other respects the country's problem is too much rather than too little government.

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