tip of my tongue...

[ICantSpellDawg]

what is it called when a country is able to produce all things necessary for its economic health without relying on import?

it is a special word i used in grade school

synonymous with:
economic sovereignty
self-reliance
etc.

one special word - please help

[Sasaki Kojiro]

self-sufficient?

[Papewaio]

Isolationism?

Ossification?

No idea here...

[Peasant Phill]

a myth?

[L'Impresario]

There's also autarkic...
The condition being autarky.

[Beirut]

what is it called when a country is able to produce all things necessary for its economic health without relying on import?

it is a special word i used in grade school

Canada.

Mind you, we still want that honking hot sauce they make down in Trinidad.

[ICantSpellDawg]

i was thinking that it started with an "I", but it seems that Introdependent is not a real word.

[Oaty]

communism, but appearantely noone has got it to work

[Moros]

Canada.

Mind you, we still want that honking hot sauce they make down in Trinidad.

I bet you're chainsaws have parts wich are labelled made in Taiwain;

[Csargo]

i was thinking that it started with an "I", but it seems that Introdependent is not a real word.

We'll make it a word.

[Silver Rusher]

unImportant?

[Dooz]

i was thinking that it started with an "I", but it seems that Introdependent is not a real word.

There is interdependent, but that's the opposite of what your looking for. But maybe that was the word in your head?

[Kralizec]

Autarky, like L'impresario mentioned, is probably what you're thinking of.

Starting with a I, the only word I can think of is Iuche, wich is Korean for "self-reliance" and wich is also the name of the North Korean state doctrine.

[Silver Rusher]

Autarky, like L'impresario mentioned, is probably what you're thinking of.

I can't believe the English language has actually managed to corrupt a word by replacing the ch with a k.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autarchy

[L'Impresario]

That's what happens when you don't have two standard letters for hard k's and heavily aspirated h's :p
In Greek you can make the distinction, because it's actually autarkia (αυτάρκεια) and autarhia (αυταρχία).
This also reminds me that English lacks accents for intonational purposes, contributing to the confusion.

[Silver Rusher]

Contributing to the confusion? Imagine how hard it would be for US to learn Vietnamese...

(example)

[GoreBag]

If 'interdependent' is a word, so must be 'intradependent'.

[Silver Rusher]

Actually, GoreBag, I thought the same a while ago until I was unable to find any dictionary entry on it.

[L'Impresario]

The term exists, but it's not quite approved, more of a neologism. If there's a specific niché to be filled, the word could gain some ground, probably with some intellectual backing, I gather it'll be a social scientist that's more likely to use it in a specific context (excluding economists; they tend to be rather unimaginative with such things). In the meantime other expressions are used till it becomes vogue amongst generic Sub-saharan environmental policy strategists.

[ICantSpellDawg]

autarky sounds like exactly the idea of what i was looking for. Introdependent is probably not used because everything depends on workings from within. This dependency says nothing about the autarky of a country.

a watch company may be dependent on its company watch makers. this does not mean it is entirely dependent. Autarky means entirely dependent