>>14229559The economy would collapse. Gold would be "banned" and "confiscated" like alcohol during prohibition and illegal drugs are today, unless you have it outside of your custody then they'll take it for real. This will create a major black market where people anonymously trade gold for goods and services. People will only crave it even more, and high ticket items like houses and cars will sell in gold and silver.
As things settle down, the dollar (or an SDR-based world currency) would then need to be pegged to gold to control the problem, but given the fact there are cryptocurrencies and universal distrust of banks, people will convert the new dollars into crypto and this will become the more prominent black market trading platform than physical metals due to convenience.
I suspect countries will still exist but the sovereign currency system will become more universal across all countries as they'll probably be controlled through the IMF. The technocrats and Big Tech will "govern" everyone when they use any technology whatsoever and when they aren't using it, they'll be governed by their local, state and federal governments which will be more interlocked with a central global government.
