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[MCU] How does wakanda maintain image of being a poor country?

Does wakanda import anything? I would imagine Wakanda needs to import things they dont make themselves.

I several scenes you can see there's some grafiti on the walls. 

Does wakanda make its own spray paint? 

Does wakanda import any precious metals? or is literally everything vibranium?

it seems like wakanda would go thorugh a lot of steel and aluminum for all thier technology, since vibranium only makes a small part of each device. 

so how does a seemingly dirt poor country import tons of different products, and consume them like a first world country?

surely some one would notice all these products going to a small African nation?

even if stuf is shipped to neighbouring countries and then secretly moved to wakanda, wouldnt wakanda need some sort of secret agreement with these countries?
gpt
They don't exactly have a massive population. It's more of a city of advanced technology and the rest is farmland. They could easily mine enough of there own iron. Which for plot purposes they likely have plenty of local sources.