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===== ✅ Final No-Bullshit List: Top Countries Operating with Real SOEs, Public Goods, and Central Planning by and for the People — as of now =====
# 🇨🇳 China - Massive SOE infrastructure across all major sectors. - Central planning coordinates economy around national priorities. - Profits used for infrastructure, healthcare expansion, poverty alleviation. - Not capitalist with social programs — state capitalist yes, but public-directed, not Wall Street-owned.
# 🇰🇵 North Korea - Entire economy is state-owned, including agriculture, industry, housing. - No capitalist class, no billionaires. - Jobs, food, housing distributed by plan, not market. - Criticisms of repression exist — but structure is still fully nationalized and centrally planned.
# 🇨🇺 Cuba - Nearly all industries nationalized, centrally coordinated. - Universal healthcare and education free for all, despite embargo. - Housing is a right. - No billionaire elite extracting profit.
# 🇻🇳 Vietnam - High level of state ownership: banking, utilities, energy, telecoms, industry. - Land use controlled by the state. - Uses SOEs to drive rural development, public goods, and price stability.
# 🇮🇷 Iran - Major industries (oil, gas, banking, manufacturing) under state or quasi-state (bonyads, IRGC) control. - Profits fund education, healthcare, and subsidies. - Still functions through a redistributive model despite elite factionalism.
# 🇷🇺 Russia - Oil, gas, banking, agriculture, defense sectors largely nationalized. - State collects windfalls from energy and redistributes through pensions, healthcare, and infrastructure. - Western critics call it “cronyism,” but structurally it does redistribute.
# 🇻🇪 Venezuela - Oil, electricity, mining, food distribution nationalized. - Programs like Barrio Adentro (healthcare) and Misión Vivienda (housing) run on oil revenues. - Despite economic war, the model is structurally redistributive.
# 🇧🇴 Bolivia - Natural gas, lithium, energy nationalized. - Public funds redistributed into rural health, education, and Indigenous programs. - Anti-privatization mass movements shape public ownership.
# 🇸🇾 Syria (pre-war) - Broad state control over banking, telecoms, energy, housing. - Food subsidies, fuel, education, and healthcare were centrally coordinated. - War disrupted this, but structure pre-2011 was state-planned and redistributive.
# 🇪🇷 Eritrea
* All land, utilities, and many enterprises owned by the state.
* Highly centralized planning model, free education/healthcare.
* Repression exists, but structurally, it's public-owned and not market-run.