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Well, I suppose the answer is the US, but don't count out France. A variety of manufactured goods, a surplus of electricity from nuclear plants, lots of high tech stuff, thriving agricultural sector, fishing, fine wine, fine food, funky food, tourism, cafes with snobby waiters, art, high couture, low couture, etc.
There seems to be this weird belief that large service sector = bad.
Service industry is a lot more than burger flippers and shoe salesman, it includes many productive high profit industries like financials, technology, business services, legal, etc.. France, Singapore, UK, USA, Hong Kong, Belgium, Switzerland, Australia, etc. all have service sectors that are over 70% of their GDP.
Take a look at countries with the lowest percentage in services, with the exception of some oil states like Saudi Arabia you mostly see extremely poor third world countries.
What single country would do better if isolated from the rest of the world?
The same country that did the best with their military while servicing their citizens during WW2.
There are hundreds of high quality small to mid-size chocolate makers here in the US. You might have to search to find a few to your liking, and you might have to travel a bit (or use mail order), but they exist and produce many different kinds of high quality chocolate. There may even be as many here as there are in Switzerland or Belgium.
Depends on what you mean by diversified. Is a diversified economy an economy that produces everything for life as we know it in that country, without importing things that are not made there, or does diversified mean that the various sectors contribute to the economy somewhat equally, not one sector overwhelming the others, like the financial services sector does in Switzerland?
To me, diversified means that the country produces everything that is necessary for that country's economy, and many consumer goods that are not necessary, such as luxury items, for example. The US and Russia are the obvious leaders because of the wide variety of goods they produce. As far as I know, China has never produced passenger airplanes, whereas the US and Russia are the two world leaders in that field, and monopolized the world market until France and Germany founded the Airbus consortium a few years ago.
On another note, although China is diversified it does not seem to be that self-sufficient because they need to import a lot of food to feed their people.
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