Now "staggering" or "reeling" might fetch &euro75 or 80.
What price "monolithic" or "Soviet-style"?
If Russia didn't still have it, they'd name Paris Moscow.
How about "beleagured" or "stuttering" or "battered"? Not extreme enough? "Embattled"? "Decrepit"?
I know... "threadbare," sort of like these adjectives.