That mechanic is what’s letting them succeed.

Rather than winner-take-all elections where Party B spends 4 years unwinding everything Party A did in the last 4 years, the decisions can be made inside a party framework built for continuity.

There are quite a few shops like that for reptiles, likely because of the special care requirements.

On the one hand, you don’t want a minimum-wage no-training staffer who cam barely keep a hamster fed killing a $4000 lizard by not setting the heat and humidity right.

On another, it’s sort of weird to sell pet and feeder rodents together.

Up to 1990, PRC banknotes had different portraits. I suspect many of them were “representatives” for different types of labourer or ethnic groups rather than idolizing a single figure.

For example https://en.numista.com/211574

The 100-yuan of the series features Mao with three other early leaders of the republic, but the lower notes are representatives.