Breaking out of stasis is neither easy nor instantaneous. Examples of temporarily suspended existence and reemergence in popular fiction range from space travel to medical miracles. Nobody has ever tried it of course, but in theory it makes sense to suspend a body in some sort of stasis for the duration of an interplanetary flight and revive it upon arrival — at least according to countless movie scripts and Hollywood logic. Much rarer than a cold sleep sci-fi movie plot is the condemnation and rescue of an entire economy from stasis. Economic stagnation and revival has been associated with a single fairytale trope — Sleeping Beauty — many times since the tale was first committed to paper in 17th century France, and further popularized 100 years later as Dornröschen by the German Brothers Grimm. The falling of a whole kingdom’s economy into a deep sleep is only a collateral effect
