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The economy as by the CIA World FactBook:

SYMISTAN, an highly impoverished and underdeveloped country, has suffered from decades of civil war, no foreign investment, and a costly, ongoing confrontation with a majority of its smaller nations. It has the ambition of being a regional power and wishes to rival its former master Russia in the region. However, recently the country has reached a peace agreement brokered by Norway with the help of the EU. There is no government and very much resembles Iraq and Afghanistan in its government structure ie there is none. It is a bankrupt country with no major industry with the exception of agriculture. It has no forigen curreny reserves (called FOREX for those who don't know) and seriously needs cash. The EU has stated if a govt is formed and a parliament convened, they will provide aid in the form of grants (Grants unlike other forms of aid have no interest are not to be paid back).


Total Population: 45 million (deaths due to civil war nearly 20 million people (i know its alot but i am just trying to create an extremely bad situation in the country)

GDP: purchasing power parity - $3 million (2003 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 0.5% (2003 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $127 (2003 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 95.0%
industry: 0.0%
services: 5.0% (2003 est.)
Investment (gross fixed): 0.0% of GDP (2003)
Population below poverty line: 78% (2003 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 40.5%
highest 10%: 0.07% (2003 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 17.9% (2003 est.)

Labor force: 30.98 million
note: A 70% of this labour force is below 21 years old (2003)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 99%, industry 0%, services 1% (2003 est.)
Unemployment rate: 70%% plus substantial underemployment (2003 est.)

Budget: revenues: $0.0 billion
expenditures: $0.0 billion, including capital expenditures of NA (2003 est.)
Public debt: 0.0% of GDP (2003)

Agriculture - products: Very low due to war, but include cotton, wheat, rice, sugarcane, fruits, vegetables; milk, beef, mutton, eggs
Industrial production growth rate: 0.0% (2003 est.)

No Electricity Generation in country
Electricity - production: 0.0 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - consumption: 0.0 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2001)

Exports: $0.0 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
Exports - none
Exports - none
Imports: 0.0 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
Imports - None
Imports - None

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold: $0.0 billion (2003)
Debt - external: $0.0 billion (2003 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $0.0 billion (FY01/02)
Currency: SYMISTAN Pill (SYP)
Currency code: SYP - Nick named the purple pill for its purple color.