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Anyway, this is an interesting exercise, but also a very difficult one. "Self-sustaining" should be fine, but the feasibility of the whole thing hinges on how we define "modern society". As has been mentioned, a lot of the things we take for granted require a lot of specialized knowledge and immense supply chains to produce. Case in point: How much farmland would be needed - simple, right? Just ballpark it based on population/farm area in the an existing country, imports and exports will roughly cancel out so should be good enough. Except that farm productivity greatly depends on the availability of machinery, fertilization, pesticides, etc. So, how many tractors we'd be able to produce (or even maintain), and what kinds of chemicals could we make? If we can build a tractor factory... TLDR; I have no idea, but in isolation this isn't going to be any kind of modern utopia unless true AI and atom-level manipulation are invented in the 25 years.
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