For all you readers who are current or potential government workers, let me explain. Any country that loses a war fought on its own turf is in economic ruins. If history doesn't tell you anything, let me give you a bit of current events. There are few jobs. Their babies die for lack of antibiotics.
Diabetics die for lack of insulin.
They're digging up bodies so they can reuse their pacemakers. People with cancer are untreated. They kill themselves when the pain gets too bad. The population is swollen with hundreds of thousands of refugees from Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. They live in damp basements, shattered homes, schools and other abandoned buildings.