Urban Dictionary - Banana Republican - The term "banana republic" refers to a country dominated by corporate interests, in which income disparity between rich and poor is extremely high, to the point
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TIL The term "Banana Republic" is from the 1904 novel "Cabbages and Kings" which is itself named after the famous poem "The Walrus and The Carpenter" from Louis Carrol's "Through the Looking
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