The capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders, Bruges. The city was a magnet for merchants and various passerby in the fifteenth century.
Communism
This is an example of central planning in which everything is directed by the government. These types of economies tend not to do well because as the question states the incentive for individuals is taken away.
The story behind the Trail of Tears. That everywhere they cried on the way, a flower grow.
This policy was called "containment" - the idea was to contain communism from spreading to new countries without trying to actively challenge the communist system in the countries that already had it.
This policy lead to some proxy wars, in which the US fought the Soviet Union for the free countries.
