There are a lot of bottled dragons there.
Yeah, it's hard to see how they can continue along the path they've been following, what with: 1) The missing girls; 2) The restive minorities; 3) The vast wealth disparities; 4) The fact that they will eventually have a serious recession (all economies do); 5) The huge and increasing need for increasingly costly natural resources; 6) The increasing flow of information about the outside world; etc.
Let's hope these upcoming problems don't cause a bloodbath. :-(
Cheers,
Scott.