This issue is so deep that entire text books have been written on it.

Look at Scandinavia or Japan both these economies were isolated and managed to modernise.

In fact Japan was so envied by the west they attack Japan in 1853. Esthar (east far) is analogous to Japan. If Potential GDP remains higher than Real GDP and the internal velocity of money is high an economy can experience growth without trade. Technology is a function reliant on education and not trade. Both Sweden and Japan have excellent education programs and the investment pays off.

Japan was called the land of gold by the west, and it seems that Esthar is an attack on Globalisation. Obviously Globalisation kills domestic growth by subsidising products and government expenditure.

We think that globalisation is good, because we are indoctrinated to think this by our governments. It is the governments who benefit from globalisation via tariffs and subsidised goods, the public merely loose their jobs.

Esthar is secure, they have fully exploited their natural resources (the continent is an ecological disaster) yet they have a wonderful export market (like Sweden and Japan) note that "Odine brand" is very well known outside Esthar.

In summary Esthar is a success story, strong domestic control (i.e. no imports)....With excellent surplus (i.e. export goods) I doubt that this is purely achievable in today’s world as Japan imports food stuffs from Korea and Australia, and Sweden imports materials from Germany and Russia.

In short I believe that Esthar is the extrmophile of the Japanese economy. Its quite ammusing that Esthar is also in the east!!!!