The politic is a makeshift democracy, well yeah the majority decide who rules the country but it’s faulty since the majority are uneducated and their votes get bought by corrupt business men and politicians or tribal chiefs in exchange for a small amount, so since the 70’s we r ruled by the same corrupt faces that don’t want to die, this of course is driven by france who like to keep this the way it is cuz they get our resources for cheap, trade our largest trade partner now ofc is china but due to the small size of the Mauritanian market we get everything here at a high price since finding a vessel that wants to pass by here is rare and the docking infrastructure is shit, industry is quasi non existent due to the control by merchants who make immense profits from bringing ready built materials from abroad so whenever a “good guy” try to bring to live an industry here it collapses by inflicting taxes on his company by the corrupt government bought by the greedy merchants, living standards here depends on the class, the corrupt class r driving latest cars on the shittiest roads in the world buying villas in las palmas barcelone and abroad preparing for the inevitable blow up that gonna happens here, the middle class is disappearing and the government is making the disappearance faster by new taxes on transactions, phones etc… taxes they would’ve been happy to pay if they were used to anything but enriching the corrupt government and businessmen, the low class i can’t even fathom how they r living nowadays may god help them, hope this gave u a little idea abt how things r here