Tips to grow your North Korean Startup

This is the sad truth of places like Cuba or North Korea. Everything is forbidden to the point that eating is difficult. So people get corrupted and the guards, etc. just want their part.

None of those things should be illegal. It is really annoying to see how a leader class kills people of hunger and make everything illegal so that now everyone is a criminal for trying to survive.

Communism is taxes and government regulation gone mad

Communism is the ownership of the means of production by the workers. You're talking about about an out-of-control regulatory state; maybe one with an authoritarian bent?

Then the USA, where the means of production are owned by workers via pension funds, is closer to communism than USSR which basically had everything state owned.

I know this was a snarky comment, but I have to point out - you know pensioners don't work, right?

You know that people invest in their pensions long before they get to stop working, right? At least how it worked in mid-to-late XX century.