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==Economy and infrastructure== | ==Economy and infrastructure== | ||
Varshan | Varshan had a {{wp|command economy}} that differed radically from the global capitalist model, with extensive state ownership and state direction of the economy, the prevalence of slave labour, extremely low social mobility due to politically and religiously entrenched caste hierarchies, and numerous political barriers to foreign trade and investment. | ||
The base of the Varshani economy lay in extractive industries such as agriculture, mining, hydrocarbon drilling, and lumbering, which relied almost exclusively on slave labour and the forced labour/serfdom of non-slave metics and subject peoples. Varshan controlled massive deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, iron, industrial diamonds, and various other minerals, as well as enormous timber reserves. Almost all agriculture occurred on large estates called ''okozi'', most of which were owned by the Varshani nobility and gentry, the temple system, or the state. | The base of the Varshani economy lay in extractive industries such as agriculture, mining, hydrocarbon drilling, and lumbering, which relied almost exclusively on slave labour and the forced labour/serfdom of non-slave metics and subject peoples. Varshan controlled massive deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, iron, industrial diamonds, and various other minerals, as well as enormous timber reserves. Almost all agriculture occurred on large estates called ''okozi'', most of which were owned by the Varshani nobility and gentry, the temple system, or the state. | ||