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@cstross @futurebird @dx
Also, just to note that while 100M is about the population size of a major industrialized economy (USA/north America; EU/Europe; Japan; China), none of our *actual* economies would be able to go it alone.

We're all far too intertwined and interdependent for a single region to be self-sufficient to the point where anybody could maintain anything like our civilization.