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Dutch Disease: Currency Crowding-Out Simulator

Run a natural-resource export boom and watch the currency appreciate, non-resource industries lose price-competitiveness and hollow out, then trigger a price bust to see how slowly a hollowed-out economy rebuilds.

Economics & Social Systems3DModerate60 FPS

Push the resource-export boom slider up and watch a live economy respond: foreign-currency inflows from resource sales strengthen the local currency, which quietly prices non-resource exporters — the factories and farms modeled on the 3D stage — out of world markets. Their capacity erodes fast while the resource sector's rigs multiply, insulated by high global prices. Trigger a price crash or depletion event later and see how quickly the currency gives back its gains compared to how slowly the hollowed-out non-resource sector can rebuild — the central vulnerability of resource-dependent economies.

⚙ Under the hood

Run a natural-resource export boom on a live 3D economy: watch foreign-currency inflows appreciate the currency, pricing out manufacturing and farming until they hollow out, then trigger a price crash to see how fast the currency snaps back versus how slowly the hollowed-out sectors rebuild.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install