They can hardly industrialize on a sustainable scale right? Tourism is their only possible lifeblood, along with extractive stuff like mining and fishing and being a tax haven. What viable path is there for them under a communist system?
They can hardly industrialize on a sustainable scale right? Tourism is their only possible lifeblood, along with extractive stuff like mining and fishing and being a tax haven. What viable path is there for them under a communist system?
With modern ship building and materials science and weather prediction via satellites sailing ships could go shockingly fast. The fasest commercial sailing vessel ever made, the famous Cutty Sark, last of the tea clippers, could manage almost 700km a day. And that was in the 1860s. Modern ships using wind turbine driven screws so they could sail directly against the wind, complimented with solar or nuclear power, and armed with real time global wather surveillance would likely be capable of pushing that envelope much further.