In this scenario, the entirety of present-day Nigeria, along with all its infrastructure and all of the people residing there, gets ISOTed back in time to 1965 (with the date chosen both because it precedes the military coups which led to the Nigerian Civil War IOTL, and because present-day Nigeria's HDI score of 0.54 is on a par with the historical HDI score of the 1965 United States). For reference, present-day Nigeria has a total GDP (PPP) of $1.116 trillion (which would be enough to place it 3rd in the world rankings in 1965, higher of those of the contemporary UK and West Germany, though narrowly behind those of West & East Germany combined), a GDP (PPP) per capita of $5,280 (comparable to those of contemporary Japan & Argentina), and a population of 211.4M (which would be the 4th largest in the world in 1965, slotting in between the USA's c.200M, and the USSR's c.230M- with the entirety of downtime Africa, for context, having a population of c.280M). What do you think would happen next- how would you envision things panning out, how well (or poorly) would present-day Nigeria fare, and how radically do you feel that their apparent arrival from the future would alter the balance of power?
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