You just need a big dig.

The sides have been changing a bit with Pakistan v china relations and India supporting Russia during the war. It’s a bit complex. Pakistan still has laws that give the death sentence for apostasy, but while India doesn’t the ultra nationalist Hindu party under Modi have been harassing and killing Muslims, so they are effectively doing the same thing. The US has been a bit cool towards Pakistan after the afghan war finally ended. But they still sell them lots of high end military equipment, much better quality than the Soviet slop India has.

I encourage you to read up on the history. It’s quite interesting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan–United_States_relations

That only measures people that record it. You don’t need any paperwork, other than a written receipt that you keep, submitted to the government in a lot of states if you buy from a person and not a store.

In theory you can setup electricity intensive operations that can use extra energy and power down when supply is tight. Things like water desalination or hydrogen production. You have the problem of capital not being used but desal plants are often cycled off already.

Everything on the military is classified. Basic ass radios from the 80s are top secret, classified just means they don’t want enemies to know the exact specifications of their equipment.

You can’t use ship style because those use weapons-grade material. It’s more compact but not something you can use for civilian designs. The design isn’t complex, it just uses higher energy density material.

No. It’s more that they have higher costs and it averages out around 20 years. So it’s close to the average length of a life sentence except if they’re young. It’s only real cheap if you have a kangaroo court and just shoot people.

It means death is final and you shouldn’t always act rashly. Gollum was a baby eater and absolutely evil.