The Village is a microcosm of the Country, where:

The intellectually disabled are pushed around and left for dead;
The pursuit of religious enlightenment is squashed like a bug;
One policy leads to seven drastically different, yet equally devastating, outcomes;
The challengers to the status quo are silenced permanently;
The despairing victims resort to extreme measures to get their grievances heard;
And so much more . . .

But, like Marco Polo said about the Country, "I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed."