Also,

a very good educated guess is:

On average, you pay considerably more attention than you get
from the rest of the world via the internet, TV, movies,
books, music, etc.

Which implies a constant and likely growing drain of

both money and people,

and this will get worse, which is the reason to be paranoid.

As A-NZ and its residents get less and less notice,

you will get less and less of anything good

from the world, and end up increasingly isolated.