Beside the extreme social aspects of Mauritania, they are in poverty because of government spending. Mauritania is in the process of modernizing its economy, but its social progress cannot keep up. Their purchase power is sliding, the wages and working conditions are at 1980s levels, and the countryside, shantytowns, and trade unions are struggling and poverty-stricken. In Animal Farm, Napoleon buys frivolous things like whiskey without having a steady stream of produce going out, which takes a huge toll on the farm and the over-producing hens. As well as being destitute, the people of Mauritania are too dependent upon their government because their first President, Moktar Ould Daddah, set up an authoritarian presidential regime and was reelected
