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Their government has been actively making them fat, retarded and stupid for about three quarters of a decade.
Through various programs using financing that was collected from the subjects of domestication, they were able to develop all sorts of methods of control. Whether it was deliberately poisoning/undernourishment of populations, sending young men to war, or just flat out demographic manipulation, they were able to breed a worlds worth of weak, obedient, addicted and complacent cattle.