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Spent way too much on mono resource that collapsed rapidly causing backlash to services.
Our tin was rendered obsolete by aluminium and rubber by artificial rubber so survival requires pushing for services. Even in the 80's the govt realised a mass of 50million is minimum to produce a powerful enough industrial base and consumer demand, without that once market goes global they will be eaten by globohomo.
Too late now, fertility rate already at 1.8 and declining rapidly. Such is the life of extra background characters.