Economy of Velaheria

Economy of Velaheria

Flag of Velaheria
Currency	Wran (VW)
Fiscal year	1 March — 31 April
Trade organisations	None
Statistics
GDP	USD 80 billion (PPP, 2020)
GDP growth	2.7% (2020)
GDP per capita	USD 2,720 (PPP, 2020)
GDP by sector	Services: 30,7% Industry: 42,3% Agriculture: 18,0%
Inflation (CPI)	5.6%
Population below poverty line	N/A (2020)
Gini coefficient	0.30 (2020)
Labour force	18 million (2020)
Labour force by occupation	Services: 32,1% Industry: 40,9% Agriculture: 18,0%
Unemployment	5-7% (2020)
Main industries	List Automobile Manufacturing Energy Metallurgy Food processing Wood and furniture products Metal products Cement Construction equipment Light Machinery Mining Heavy machinery Rubber
External
Export goods	List Clothing Heavy Machinery Cement Construction Equipment Automobiles Textiles Foodstuffs Rubber Tobacco Wood products Minerals Iron and steel
Import goods	List Cars and car parts Machinery and equipment Petrochemicals Chemicals Plastics Foodstuffs Electronic equipment

Overview

Velaheria has maintained one of the most closed and centralized economies in the wurld since the 1940s. For several decades, it followed the Central pattern of five-year plans with the ultimate goal of achieving self-sufficiency.

Extensive communist support allowed Velaheria to rapidly register very high growth rates, However, this has also lead to systematic inefficiencies which are largely visible in the economic production and activities of velaheria.

The State expertises in the production of heavy machinery, metals and minerals which form the backbone of its economy, it also has its fair share of growth through agricultural activities which form a large part of its economy.

Services are a relatively moderate part of the nation, with the average services available being small scaled due to the centralization of policies and the ban on private ownership and existence of large scale private companies inside the nation, though several minor small private organization thrive inside the nation's largest cities, due to a general lack of oversight by the government on their activities.

Corruption

Corruption inside of Velaheria is widespread, this is mainly observed by the fact that even the simplest of actions require's some sort of illegal actions, Corruption is visible in all sections of society, Though the people have largely seemed to have accepted it, partially due to the lack of government's interest to act on such matters.

History

The first foundations of the Velaherian Industrial powerhouse, was started in the 17th century, during the rule of the dolchlanders, they first implemented the first serious reforms to transform the mostly agricultural nation into a minimally industrialised one, they builted the first manufacturing sites.

These were plain sawmills and mines, which produced the raw materials required for dolchland, and was exported back to them, they also expanded the farming lands to include parts of the forests which the native velhars, used for gathering basic forest materials such as firewood, etc, and led to the reduction of commmodities for the people, which led in a reduction of availability of necessary resources to the people.

The Dolchlic's enslaved those people into servitude, serving as labourers working in the mines and in the farms owned by the rich Dolchic landlords, they were often mistreated and were starved to death, despite these conditions, the production of the crops and minerals steadily increased, as a result of this slave labour.

In the 1810's and 1820's, the first industrial complexes were developed in the capital of the dolch administered velaheria, Bastaria, where cloths and other luxury items were made, the construction of these factories, made the income of the dolch administered region, skyrocket, as they would receive the raw materials at a much lesser price than that of the market, and would sell them to foreign states, which made this venture extremely profitable, The factories were also expanded and as a result by the 1840's , the entirity of Bastaria was changed into an industrial city, filled with workers and slave labour.

In the 1860's, the Colonial Administration decided to implement a set of reforms to increase the growth of their holdings, they started to build several mineral refineries, to produce steel and iron, which lead to massive increases in the industrial growth in that area, however this was only concentrated to some cities, so overall this whole industrial development was minimal compared to that of the entire nation, these sites were highly concentrated to a few cities and benifited only a small number of people.

By the 1910's a large network of roadways was developed by the dolchic government in order to smoothly transport materials and goods across the different parts of the nation, which lead to the development of industrial growth in other parts of the nation too; mainly inside the cities and neighbouring areas.

After the dolch colonisers had left the nation in 1927, Velaheria declared itself as a monarchy, and was ruled by the house of sel, During that rule, Velaheria, experienced rapid economic downturn, mostly due to inexperienced leadership and a divided government which was always squabbling amongst themselves about which policy to implement and which to not, these led to beauracratic nightmares, and an inefficient decision making body.

Despite that in the early 1930's, the monarchy implemented land reforms which, were supposed to give back the land to the slaves, who were freed by the new government, but in reality, all of those lands went to wealthy nobles, who tortured the populace even more than the former dolch colonisers, and forced the peasants to hand over their produces to the nobles, which led to peasants, often burning down their harvests, as a method of protests.

This led to severe food shortages and a near famine like situation, In this crisis, the ideas of socialism first blossomed across the minds of some middle class individuals who sought to overthrow the monarchy, like they had read about happening in other nations several decades ago.