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Some of the largest companies in the world originate from Packilvania including the following: [[Export-Import Bank of Packilvania]], [[Packilvanian Steel and Construction Corporation]], [[Packilvanian Agricultural Bank]], [[Packilvanian Development Bank]], [[Packilvanian Industrial and Commercial Bank]] and [[Packilvanian Coal and Gas Corporation]].
===Infrastructure and energy===
Infrastructure in Packilvania is administered largely by the [[Administrative divisions of Packilvania|provincial and local governments]] under the national government via the Ministers of Housing and Urban Development, Mining and Energy, and Transport in the [[Council of Ministers of Packilvania]]. When the [[Bedonite dynasty]] took over from the [[Packilvanian Communist Party]] they continued and amplified the reliance on infrastructure and real estate expenditure to encourage economic growth.
This spending has been a crucial driver of the high rate of economic growth that the country has seen in the past 30 or so years. Unfortunately, most of that spending has been fuelled by heavy debt, and projects are often directed by political interests and susceptible to corruption. Nevertheless, by adopting and scaling prefabrication and leveraging their skilled low cost labour, the country has experienced arguably the largest construction boom in the history of [[Urth]].
The country has approximately 1.5 million km of roads, of which approximately 890,000 are paved and 340,000 consists of highways. Road infrastructure is heavily concentrated in urban areas and is often the primary means of transport for mid-distance travel for low-income citizens and for trucked goods. The country has over 100,000 km of rail networks, of which 70,000 km are electrified and 25,000 km consists of high-speed rail with a magnetic levitation line connecting [[Bingol]] and [[Kemer]] (one of the longest in the world).
The country has over 500 civilian airports serving over 40 airlines. The largest airport is the Sultan [[Amhoud I]] International Airport in Bingol which handles 30 million passengers followed by the Sultan [[Amhoud II]] International Airport in Kemer. The largest container port is the Port of Bingol which handles over 200 million metric tonnes of cargo annually. The country benefits from large navigable waterways specifically the Ufrata, Meked and Jumhur Rivers on whose banks many cities and inland ports have been built.
The country's energy comes from coal (40%), natural gas (30%), hydroelectric power (20%) and 10% from a mixture of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power. The country is arguably the largest producer of natural gas, coal and petroleum in the world. It is almost entirely energy independent and sells electricity to surrounding nations such as [[Drakkengard]]. Coupled with government subsidies of electricity costs, cost of electricity is extremely low. Nevertheless, the country is attempting to reduce its reliance on coal and eventually natural gas and petroleum to meet its carbon emissions targets as set by the [[International Forum]] in a resolution proposed by [[Prince Faijil]]. A lot of the coal and gas resources in the country are controlled by the [[Packilvanian Coal and Gas Corporation]], arguably the largest energy company in the world followed by [[Embask]].
=== Science and technology===
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