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> number of countries where life imprisonment is available

All of those, I believe, have the death penalty for e.g. corporate fraud.

This is a bit of a nut job hypothesis. States don’t collapse because of private counterfeiting. It simply becomes an economic nuisance. The budget given to anti-counterfeiting in any country is generally a rounding error compared with other policing.



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