[nlitened]

I wonder if there is an example of a country that doesn’t have resources, so “powerful countries” cannot “take” them?

Or every country has resources, and weak countries are those that prefer to sell them for cheap rather than work on making use of them?

[bibimsz]

England, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, and Taiwan, etc. None of them have vast natural resources.

[umanwizard]

England had coal at the start of the Industrial Revolution.