Mining industry of Akitsukuni

The mining industry of Akitsukuni is one of the world's leading mineral industries and accounts for a large percentage of Uju's production of a range of mineral products, including metals, industrial minerals, and mineral fuels. In 2005, Akitsukuni ranked among the leading world producers or was a significant producer of a vast range of mineral commodities, including aluminium, arsenic, cement, copper, magnesium compounds and metals, nitrogen, palladium, silicon, and vanadium. Akitsukuni is also a world leader in the production of rare earth minerals, accounting for almost 50% of the world supply.

In 2005, the Akitsukunese economy benefited significantly from high oil, gas, and metal prices. Oil revenues accounted for about 14% of the GDP. Following the mineral fuel industry, the next leading branch of the mineral industry, in terms of its contribution to the national economy was the metallurgical sector, which contributed 19% of the value of industrial production, accounted for 11.1% of the value of industrial capital stock, and employed 9.3% of the industrial labour force. In 2005, a total of 1,071,000 people were employed in the mineral extraction sector and made up 1.6% of the country's labour force. Investment in mineral extraction and metallurgy accounted for about 20% of total investment in the Akitsukunese economy.

OOC Meme
The mining industry of Akitsukuni, or rather the wiki page "Mining industry of Akitsukuni", has become a meme in Tiandi due to its common usage by Aki to refer to the uphill task of ensuring completeness of the world of Tiandi. As a seemingly insignificant topic OOCly that would rarely appear in an RP but ICly extremely crucial to Akitsukuni, the mining industry of Akitsukuni is often referred to sarcastically by Aki as a page that needs to be written urgently, compared to more RP-related pages such as characters or the history of Akitsukuni.