This book is not about facts, but about truths — the kind you only see once everything has fallen apart. You won't find official names here. The nations described here are not taken from headlines, but from the shadows behind them. This book entails 6 lecture series of Professor Kumaran dissected the interlocking causes: the erosion of checks and balances, the rise of personality cults, military interference, crony capitalism, and foreign manipulation of the 3 imaginery countries.