A recent deal between a Swedish and a North Korean company reminds me a lot of the ´State. Can't remember the exact details, but it was a marketing idea to sell jeans made in North Korea. The biggest textile manufacturer didn't want the deal, but another manufacturer named Factory n:o 9 or something very Ostalgic like that took the deal. Their main business was mining, but they also had a few other businesses as well. Part of the deal, they required stuff like Adobe Acrobat to be able to read the docs sent to them from Sweden etc., and at one point asked if the retailers in Sweden could send them zinc-processing equipment.