It's worth getting to know Mongolia: "But it is a budding, vibrant democracy with a solid base of well-educated nationals and an ample endowment of precious metals, coal and very likely also huge shale gas reserves. Whether it wants to or not, Mongolia is being sucked into the economic maelstrom of an ever resource-hungrier global economy.
As a modern state, Mongolia came into its own only 20 years ago with the demise of the USSR. But Mongolian national history goes back to the 13th century when its greatest son and object of considerable pride through to the present, Genghis Khan, ruled the known world from the east coast of China to Hungary. With the death of his direct descendants the greatest empire ever created imploded as fast as his horsemen had conquered it.
Today Mongolia is just about the only real democracy, where 'one person, one vote' rules supreme, between the Pacific and eastern Europe. In Ulan Bator no authoritarian figure or family plunders the country as is the case in other Central Asian states, and Mongolian voters can and have thrown the rascals out, the last time in June 2012 with a seamless transfer of power from the government to the opposition."
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