Energy was inexhaustible.
"That's just nonsense." Young Doctor Doom said this as he watched a Stark Industries promotional video.
The resources of the universe were inexhaustible too, but could they mine them now?
Based on the latest theories, Parallel Universes might even exist, but could they go to those Parallel Universes to mine resources?
Impossible.
Stark Industries provided cheap energy to the outside world every year, but that was only the price of the energy itself, excluding logistics and other costs.
It was as though they had acquired a super Energy Core within their company that spanned several eras, allowing them to supply energy outward while remaining unable to change where that energy was produced.
The energy shipped from New York to Doom's homeland of Latveria was, in terms of cost, actually less affordable than simply building a thermal power plant in Latveria.
Stark Industries' research into drone technology and cheap energy had allowed the entire North American continent to enjoy the benefits, but things were different farther away. These developments had turned demographic dividends into a joke, directly depriving those countries of any chance to rise through low-end industry. Latveria was one such country.
Even the most precious resource—people—was flowing toward the Americas. They would flee those hopeless countries even by illegal immigration, despite the mortality rate for such journeys exceeding 30 percent.
Without industry to support them, the people of those countries had even less chance of finding the money to research these backward energy technologies. The era Stark Industries had leapt across was not merely one or two generations; it had directly made people elsewhere unable to see any possibility of progress.
It was all because of that... mysterious energy.
Because of its poverty, Latveria was a complete lawless land. Even today, it remained a tribal nation.