If you want a laugh at the absurdity of the situation, look at the scene in South Sudan, where patience is no longer just a virtue, but has become an official profession practiced by citizens around the clock!

The South Sudanese citizen has broken Job's record for endurance; they wait for development like someone waiting for a train in the middle of the ocean. They endure hunger and a currency that rivals a parachute in its speed of descent. If patience were a commodity, the people of South Sudan would be the richest on earth!
As for the political leadership, they live on a completely different planet, a planet of personal interests where gravity only draws money into their pockets. Our leadership follows the policy: "After me, the deluge... and if the people object, the deluge begins now!"
Instead of offering the citizens a plan of action, they offer a plan of threats, as if their unspoken message is: "We care about you so much that we won't let you rest from constantly worrying about how you'll survive tomorrow!" The people dream of bread, while the leaders plot how to adorn their gilded thrones, and in the end, they ask the people for "more patience," as if patience were an inexhaustible storehouse!
It's dark comedy at its finest: people with the endurance of Job, leaders with insatiable appetites, and the result... a citizen laughing through his misery as he waits for relief that seems to have lost its way in the tropical rainforest.