The confederacy could produce most of what a country needs and Vasa published the list on the first day.
Food came off the Hunger Road with three seasons of independent production behind it. Basic cores came out of four member cities and the Citadel's own training yards.
Ordinary healing, trauma work, ward infrastructure, and recovery all ran on national labor. Defense moved along the completed route across seven member anchors and four contracted ones.
None of that had ever depended on a continental supply and none of it was going to fail.
Vasa published the working list a full day before she published the shortage. A country reading what it can still do reads a shortage differently afterward.
Holt's crews were moving grain along the Hunger Road that same week without any interruption. Nobody in four member cities had missed a delivery since the capital spine opened.
Four advanced treatment lines turned out to be an entirely different matter.
