"If we don't fix power, the whole country will collapse."
Eventually the country collapsed, though the city struggled on.
There wasn't a polarized nation on earth that would benefit if yet another country collapsed into smaller republics.
Days after he arrived, the country collapsed once again into civil war.
Without them a country would collapse during periods of rapid social and economic change.
You only need a couple more countries to default and your monetary system will collapse.
Three months after the mercenaries left, the country, defenseless, collapsed into terror.
The country then collapsed through corruption and international intervention.
Many Arab leaders left the country and local leadership collapsed.
When the economy turned south, the country could not borrow enough to make ends meet and collapsed.