Bandar is the capital. The Sultan King runs this place with a iron rod. Not a bar or liquor store in the country. Imagine a country with no Income tax, universal education, free medical care, and pensions for the old and needy. It's not Utopia; it's reality in tiny, tropical Brunei, on the northwest coast of the island of Boreno, extravagantly enriched by oil discovered in 1929. So much so the Sultan lives in a 1700 room palace recently built in the 1980's.
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