1. Work a lot.
2. Be an authority
3. Raise the country to #2 by GDP.
4. Increase the population by 40 million people.
5. Execute 640 thousand criminals.
"The works of Newton: ~330 years old
Pythagoras's theorem: ~2500 years old
Mendeleev's periodic table ~150 years old
So it looks like they also got outdated and no longer work?"
"Hey, North Korea! We've come to deliver another thousand sanctions and to remind you that there's an embargo on you, so you're excluded from all international programs and from the banking system, so you now have a problem with resources and food supply!"