by Max Barry

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The Revolutionary Entity of
Psychotic Dictatorship

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Economy - overview

The Bulgar Rouge imposed a planned economy after the Revolution, but not along the Soviet or Chinese model. Peasant communes are the main economic unit and hold the primary responsibility in carrying out the three-year plans.

Statistical information on the Bulgarian economy is scarce. In 2012, the World Bank estimated that Bulgaria's nominal Gross Domestic Product was $50.8 billion, with a per capita value of $6,900. Unemployment was estimated at 14%. The services sector contributed to 63.2%, followed by industry with 31.2% and 5.6%.After the Democratic Republic was established, the services and industry sectors were literally obliterated by the new authority and priority was completely shifted toward agriculture. Basically the entire 2.5-million labour force was diverted to agricultural communes and newly-established collective farms. Taking into account the natural disasters, the collapse of the monetary and fiscal system, and the paralisation of transportation, energy and food distribution, European and American economists estimate Bulgar Rouge's GDP to be about $5 billion, or less than 10% of its value two years before that. Nominal per capita GDP is estimated at around $1,000.

General situation


The Bulgar Rouge have what could be considered the closest approximation to a true communist economy. The destruction of urban centres and relocation of the entire population into communes was the cornerstone of this transformation. By forcing the population into subsistence-level agriculture and breaking it up into small, independent communes, there is seldom a need for an exchange of even basic commodities. These self-reliant communes, with their spartan and regimented daily life, force personal consumption to zero.

All means of production are owned by the revolutionary entity (or the "state"). However, there is no clear definition of this ownership. Legally speaking, there is no differentiation between the individual, the Party and the state; therefore "individual" property is equivalent to Party and public property.

The Communes


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