If you and your home is in near-stasis, you sit there for a year without buying any food, having the trash carted away, etc. You don’t have to fix the roof or otherwise keep up the fight against entropy. So you spend nothing and lose nothing.

Meanwhile your savings account has grown for a year. Or crops grew, or whatever: a year outside to collect sparse resources, without consuming any.

There was a novel, Lockstep by Karl Schroeder, where people stayed awake for a month and then went into stasis for 30 years. It explores the economic ramifications of this, and having societies run at different rates.

Now, I said you don’t consume resouces. But the big stasis bubble over where your house used to be will still owe property taxes for the year! I expect businesses and governments will set up storage facilities for this purpose, and adjust rules for people and property so-stored.

Whether "zones" of civilizations develop (as in Lockstep) is not something answerable ("opinion based", no right answer). See that book for ideas, and when you get a specific idea you can ask questions here concerning it.

If you and your home is in near-stasis, you sit there for a year without buying any food, having the trash carted away, etc. You don’t have to fix the roof or otherwise keep up the fight against entropy. So you spend nothing and lose nothing.

Meanwhile your savings account has grown for a year. Or crops grew, or whatever: a year outside to collect sparse resources, without consuming any.

There was a novel, Lockstep by Karl Schroeder, where people stayed awake for a month and then went into stasis for 30 years. It explores the economic ramifications of this, and having societies run at different rates.

Now, I said you don’t consume resources. But the big stasis bubble over where your house used to be will still owe property taxes for the year! I expect businesses and governments will set up storage facilities for this purpose, and adjust rules for people and property so-stored.

Whether "zones" of civilizations develop (as in Lockstep) is not something answerable ("opinion based", no right answer). See that book for ideas, and when you get a specific idea you can ask questions here concerning it.