CREATION OF A NEW PARADIGM
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Alodia is a struggling, debt-saddled, former French colony in West Africa. Its agriculture and industry function well below their capacity; it has a large and growing population of AIDS victims; it has deepened its people's suffering in order to secure debt relief; it has been plagued with ethnic conflict. However, Alodia differs in one significant respect from all the other nations in such straits: it is fictional. That is fortunate for us, for it allowed us to experiment with it. The Government of Alodia has recently been taken over by its Army, and the new leaders are proposing a bold new economic strategy.
You can read here about Alodia's history, its vital statistics, and its new departure. During 2001-02, our readers used online discussion forums to help tell this story. Highlights of those forums are available in printed form in the special Issue #99 of the Georgist Journal -- and you can order a copy right here.
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Our readers analyzed Alodia's situation and determined what its future would hold. Alodia chose to break away from failed strategies and implement a comprehensive reform. But, in its determination to unilaterally wipe clean its slate of foreign debt, it may still subject itself to retaliation from the West.
