Burma, which its citizens call Myanmar, is one of the least developed countries in the world. Until two hundred years ago Burma was a feudal pre industrial society with the vast majority of land owned by a few war lords and families who were traditionally at war with each other. A hundred year British Occupation had little modernizing effect and since the British left in 1948, Burma is once again a feudal preindustrial society ruled by a few war lords (now called generals) and a few families who are traditionally at war with each other. Burma’s leaders have shown remarkable wisdom in their ability to persevere in the oppression of their people. So many oligarchies take hostile international stances and stir up trouble for superpowers. This is internally destabilizing as it causes the US and its allies to support opponents of the regime. The Burmese model is far smarter. For fifty years Burma has had a very restrictive entry policy, almost no economic development and no foreign policy. Accordingly, with the exception of a Nobel Peace Prize to government gadfly Aung San Suu Kyi, little world wide attention was paid to a regime that systematically brutalized its people, actively pursued internal genocide of undesirable ethnic groups, and engaged in official sexual slavery of its women. But since the Burmese generals don’t try to export their ways abroad, the world’s response is economic sanctions (which only hurt the people anyway), a slap on the wrist and a turn of the head. There are sixty million people in Burma. Their stamp issuing policy has been very conservative. Over the last thirty years, Burma has issued only about seventy stamps. Even philatelically, Burma wants to draw no attention to itself.