Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
No I am talking about swapping around on such massive scale that everyone ends up happy.
USSR had this implemented. It was called Госплан. Everything was planned - Gosplan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
But it relied on humans and humans make mistakes. Problems with logistics (intentional and not) created deficit - you have had enough nails inside the whole country but some regions have had too many nails and some haven't had enough