I'm reminded of the Foundation in Asimov's Foundation series. The Foundation was deliberately banished to a remote world scarce in metals and other industrially necessary materials. Instead of choking them off, it forced them to innovate. The giant galactic Empire never had to be efficient, they could afford to build fleets of huge resource hungry vessels. The Foundation had to learn to miniaturize numerous technologies so they could be built with fewer raw materials. And that ultimately put them at a huge technological advantage.
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