Answer:
Not really get you words ...
but got your point
A lot of people depend on other people for imports of food and other stuff, like how West Berlin depended on the Air Lift back in the Cold War.
Mikah invented and patented a new product which sells in local department stores. This is an example of passive income
Lower GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
In short, this means that the nation's economy would become dominated by other countries and jobs would be outsourced to cheaper nations, thus increasing the unemployment rate. (just look at America and you can see this in play)