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You laugh but Google has an office in Moscow, for some reason. So a country can be a complete dumpster but major companies might still invest.
I'm curious of the economic impact of this, is it as much as $1million? There's only 9 million residents, and looks like their median income is about $500 a month, so they probably weren't consuming that much legally in the first place. >

That's really going to help with foreign investment and trade. Companies like it when you play hard ball and ignore intellectual property norms.