just a punk

Depends on what do you mean. By money/industry - course China (it's more powerful than the USA too). By the military power the answer is Russia.

Don't even mention the Russian GDP, because it's a fake. The main flow of money here is "black". It avoids taxes and course it is not included into our GDP. When someone gives you a suitcase with a million dollars (literally) for some service or real estate, will it be included into the official GDP? Course no, it won't. What if every second employee gets the salary in the envelope (yes, in cash and nobody knows the real amount)? The Russian economics works like this. The amount of the "black" money flow is estimated as much bigger than the official one. And yes, it's a corruption and a tax evasion is a national sport here. If in the States and China nobody will even tell about it, but here the people are proud of how many they didn't pay to the budget. In the States you'll get a prison time for that. In China you will be executed. In Russia you will be just fined for the amount of the unpaid tax... if you will be caught. So please don't use such a term as GDP in relation to Russia because it means NOTHING.

Also about taxes (if you pay them well). For example, I pay 6% and that's a fixed value (doesn't matter how much I earn). How much does pay an average US or Australian citizen? This is a large part of your GDP, by the way. So once again: Russian GDP is not an indicator of anything.

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