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the power vacuum creates a hard STOP to the political decision making in a system. depending on degree of decentralization, this is akin to widespread simultaneous decision insolvency e.g. imagine if all apple’s executives died together in a plane crash

benevolent dictatorships by definition see the value of high centralization so the result of a power vacuum stops the beating heart of the state unless it was sufficiently delegated early enough once signs of power/health waning began to show

in a decentralized state, the ECONOMY is the decision making engine. the hard effects of a dictator suddenly dying and an economy suddenly stopping are the same, no one knows what to do with themselves anymore

the resulting anarchy and chaos is held in check only by culture. japan would be safe. gun toting macho poor desperate areas would be unsafe.

the u.s. relative to other nation states is a believer in market decisions over individual hooman decisions in the absence of a market, the central state as the fallback is atrophied and must first reassert its decision making ability through printing money

china’s lockdown during covid was more of a quarantine than a shutdown. a hard break rather than the engine shutting down. the economic decision making never fully shut down

the centralized government rapidly moved to ensure that the decentralized decision making system didn’t die because it knew the consequences of an economic shutdown.