I ' ll never get enough of this . <| sep |> We don ' t have our best and our brightest negotiating for us . We have a bunch of losers , we have a bunch of political hacks , right ? <| sep |> I can kinda ease your mind about that last part . You can ' t compare GDP 11 without taking price level into account . Another thing to consider is the fact , that wow players can literally generate gold out of thin air or out of dead boars via looting . That ' s just not possible in the real world unless you ' re a central bank . That being said , it ' s still pretty fucked up . The smallest GDP according to this sitebyprojectedgdp . php is $ 32 M . Assuming 8 M current players that ' s only $ 4 per player or 60 k 3 . 75 16 k gold . That seems quite plausible . The second to last country has a GDP of $ 166 M which turns out to be $ 20 . 75 per player which is 83 k .