You pretend to work and they pretend to pay you plus you never get a day off
Yes, it’s a very old Soviet joke: “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.”
Yup.
I knew a guy from Cuba. He had a job assigned by the government. He would skip work and split his pay with his boss. In Cuba, to survive, people work a black market somehow. Families will sell their daughters as prostitutes, and it is normal. And the Cubans are lucky compared to the North Koreans.