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Today the Vithinjan economy is commonly divided into the three primary sectors: ''Energy'', ''Mining'' and ''Transportation''. These are often joined by the three secondary sectors: ''Timber'', ''Medicine'' and ''Defense''. | Today the Vithinjan economy is commonly divided into the three primary sectors: ''Energy'', ''Mining'' and ''Transportation''. These are often joined by the three secondary sectors: ''Timber'', ''Medicine'' and ''Defense''. | ||
===Primary=== | |||
==== Energy ==== | |||
For domestic production Vithinjan electricity is largely comes from hydroelectric dams and nuclear power plants. As these have for a very long time produced a surplus Vithinja always looks to export whatever energy it can. Their main energy trading partner is Caergwynn, who has a well functioning grid connection with Vithinja, allowing easy access to Vithinjan power production. | |||
When it comes to transportation, Vithinja is a heavily train based economy, with nearly ten times the train travelers compared to cars and more than fifty times as much of goods transportation using trains over trucks. Most of this rail network is electrified, with the exception of the most remote and unpopulated regions. | |||
Vithinja | These facts should by easily make Vithinja one of the most green nations in the world. But this is not the case. They are above average thanks to these factors but two simple parts of the nations energy concerns cover more than 80% of pollution. These are the large mining sector as well as heating. Vithinja needs a lot of fuel to run the machinery in the mining sector, causing pollution in the more resource wealthy regions. But the heating issue is by far the worst part for any environmental efforts. With the average citizen having to deal with on average three months of -15 degrees Celsius, Vithinja is one of the most energy hungry nations in the world every winter. For this heating more than 90% of households and workplaces utilize natural gas for this heating. | ||
With this in mind, Vithinja is one of very few nations in the world who still in the 2020's have not only not accepted any attempts to push them towards greener efforts, but their leading party actively advocates against it, as a threat to national interests. | |||
The other side of the Energy sector is the extractions of carbohydrates. Vithinja features some of the largest proven natural gas reserves in the world, as well as a few good petroleum sources. These are heavily exploited, for a nation of it's size, but with more hands and investments there is still substantial room for expansion. These natural gas reserves are an important part of North Levantine energy economics. | The other side of the Energy sector is the extractions of carbohydrates. Vithinja features some of the largest proven natural gas reserves in the world, as well as a few good petroleum sources. These are heavily exploited, for a nation of it's size, but with more hands and investments there is still substantial room for expansion. These natural gas reserves are an important part of North Levantine energy economics. | ||
==== Transportation ==== | ==== Transportation ==== | ||
Vithinja has one of the most heavily train based economies in the world. This is based in their previous isolationist period, where they avoided implementation of roadways as it was protested against by the average worker, mainly either for economic considerations or because they feared cars would ruin the layout of their cities. Because of this isolationism the transportation sector had to be entirely domestic. Today it this has resulted in a large export sector surrounding trains, maritime vessels and smaller airplanes. This includes not only the production of machinery and other components for these vehicles but also research and economic theory developing new and improved methods for these industries. | |||
==== Mining ==== | ==== Mining ==== | ||
While Vithinja has large manufacturing and service sectors, but since the time of their economic isolation the nation has built their industries mainly on resources extracted at home. These includes large mineral wealth, mainly iron, copper and tungsten. Even though there are other reserves for metals important in the industry these three are impactful as they make up the vast majority of domestically produced materials for the large manufacturing sector. The main missing material for this is aluminum, which now makes up one of the most important imports in the entire economy. Vithinja has spent an obscene amount surveying for the light metal, but with little success. | |||
=== Secondary === | === Secondary === | ||
==== Timber ==== | ==== Timber ==== | ||
==== Medicine ==== | ==== Medicine ==== | ||
==== Defense ==== | ==== Defense ==== | ||
===Infrastructure=== | ===Infrastructure=== | ||
While large parts of the world started moving over towards building roads for cars, the Syndicalists of Vithinja stubbornly leaned away from car travel and towards trains. Because of this Vithinja is one of the worst places in the world to bring a car, but has some of the best railway connectivity of any nation. It also has one of the lowest per capita carbon emissions thanks to the lack of fossil fuel use both in transportation and power generation. | While large parts of the world started moving over towards building roads for cars, the Syndicalists of Vithinja stubbornly leaned away from car travel and towards trains. Because of this Vithinja is one of the worst places in the world to bring a car, but has some of the best railway connectivity of any nation. It also has one of the lowest per capita carbon emissions thanks to the lack of fossil fuel use both in transportation and power generation. | ||