tl;dr I'm about to schizo post
This conclusion is based solely on evidence for all to see.
Largest mines for metals required for batteries and solar and renewables. Huge deserts and open land for renewable energy. Selling those valuable materials for Pennies on the USD. Labor at less than cost meaning the burden of labor is passed onto the worker rather than the buyer. Working their own people to death instead of importing Filipinos as indentured-workers and defacto slaves
They could have been like the middle eastern oil states being dumb as hell but overly wealthy. Instead they are dumb and poor while sitting on modern equivalent to gold mines/rubber plantations.
curry iq is constantly increasing, and they are at the forefront of technological innovation (AI, robotics, space travel)
India should have created nuclear stations. But CIV series accidentally uncovered their instability with the ghandi glitch where he as a pacified leader gets nuke happy with a -1 loop to 255 when nuclear war 0-10 mirroring their real life craziness by accident.
Ghandhi peace-washed that region. They are war hungry and have a culture where they think they are a superior race. I can see them go crazy and start world wars with china. They can raise taxes on work-visa workers to fund their wars as those people are tied to family at home.
Also, sending Chinese and curries to space is a bad idea. They'll pollute the orbital paths for future satellites. In any case they really have no reason to go to the moon. Other countries do because there's lots of raw material in space that will crash the prices of precious metals. China and India have a lot of raw resources and can just copy down rocket and space station designs through industrial espionage if they don't end up partnering. Before NASA only hired Americans and espionage was high risk therefore partnership was a better deal, but with privatization of space flight the plans for rocket designs have nationals from other countries doing long term embedded agents ready to copy over research to state owned research, design and manufacturing companies.
I think Saudi money will eventually capture IQ by building facilities for medical and other research with low moral restrictions. Use that to push into space. Their legal red tape on sending people safety to space is low and they'll try to mine and get wealthy off the trillions per space rock they can capture and mine.
Global warming is real and a joke for those ready to run away from the planet. The oil countries will be off this planet before India, china, USA and they'll bring their slaves with them. Corporations and politicians are already amassing wealth from poor people so they have money to jump on ships and live interim lives on floating stations then jump into orbital stations they'll have fief over. Middle steps can be seen in Microsoft, Tesla, meta attempting "digital modern cities full of workers" to see if they can run a self contained worker filled city which can then be used to model city sized space stations and sub stations. Who else is doing that? The oil Arabs and their ability to test those things with both scientists, researchers, design and architecture firms, and test subjects (their slave class imported) they have the knowledge to be ahead of the game. Even funnier is the world is funding it through their oil consumption habits. Not going nuclear power was the dumbest thing ever.
That's my Tin foil hat speculation. I'm only a doomer because I'm too poor and useless to be part of the first generation space living class.
So what happens to Africa? Left behind on earth. If anything if they get nuclear power it may just make them powerful for the short duration of the earth before it hits critical run away pollution. If they go nuclear powered nothing is stopping them. No nation, not even the USA will go into a land war inside of Africa. Instead the high IQ thing to do is assassinate politicians to prevent an organized state. Keep the grass mowed. Fund corrupt politicians to stay in power. Smother any grass roots political movements. One less superpower in space.
I bet it's easy af to generate high IQ Africans. Just a few generations of intentional breeding as they seem to be readily accepting of genetic transformation (Asian countries have implicit breeding programs by giving wealth to the intelligent workers). The smartest humans and dumbest legally-not-retarded humans aren't that far apart on the genetic scale. The real ability of a country to be at the top is their political IQ imo. But scientifically, You just need a lot of high-mid iq to run technical work. Look at India that is able to be a medical factory for pills. Then a few extra-high to establish the work and do research and can even race mix some IQ into them. The conspiracy theory of china doing explicit genetic therapy to get higher IQ to me seems like it has happened. Since cloning animals is now an established science, IQ replication through storing genetic material from multiple generations and then pushing it into unsuspecting couples.
For average IQ, Theory isn't as important as the technical work anyways. And theory is easily passed around in intellectual circles just need to have representation in them and you get an all access pass to many high IQ research ideas.
In any case Africa is currently a wasteland but with some forceful governments it can be reversed in a few generations. But then it's over for earthcels due to climate doomsday scenarios and world ending wars.
Escapechads with their generational wealth and money printers (central bankers) will create space governments and divide ownership of the earth.
Source: science fiction video games
