The phrase "mother country" is best associated with the economic philosophy known as
a. capitalism.
b. laissez-faire.
c. socialism.
d. mercantilism.

C) socialism because it is most directly associated with Russia or at the time the USSR, which was a mother country because it had various assimilated "satellite states" surrounding it which were not initially part of it and yet were socialist under the USSR.  

People cheat because they’re desperate, they procrastinate, they don’t know how to do things.

The first one is russia because in russia they were on the rough times and they never had a way to get out of