International Military Report (FT) - October 2010

This report, rather then gather information from NSEconomy, I used an application from the region Texas. I find that it's much quicker, and has more features than NSEconomy. Thanks a bunch Texas! Link for their app is right here.

Note to those of you who want me to add you to the report: PM me, and I will! Blah blah blah, don't be inactive and on my report. Not a concern at the moment. But seriously, with the increase in activity over here, you certainly may join the FT report. It's just a PM away. (I added Shakuhou without the PM. Post or PM me if you want to be removed.)

Oldest reports can be found on the old forums.
Older reports on these forums:
August 2010
September 2010

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Level of Military Technology

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Tech levels are important in the military. A bunch of dudes with clubs are going to lose to the army equipped with laser pistols. 'Nuff said.

Rutianas - Future Tech + Super Weapon (X2)
Panzersharkcat - Future Tech + Super Weapon
Burnination - Future Tech + Super Weapon
Selathorn - Future Tech + Super Weapon
Shakuhou: Future Tech
Aescentia - Future Tech

Defense Spending
Defense spending is important to military strength for an obvious reason: if you're not spending any money on your army, you don't have a very well trained army, or a very well equipped army (Note that per-soldier spending is important here as well.). As far as you're concerned, remember this formula: More military spending = stronger military.

- 1) Rutianas: $109,859,735,848,891.00 (+ 18,898,124,399,286.10)
- 2) Burnination: $34,560,366,150,654.00 (- 946,321,898,181.70)
- 3) Selathorn: $26,893,341,784,582.60 (+ 5,297,126,119,122.10)
- 4) Panzersharkcat: $10,858,754,736,244.80(+ 2,809,058,998,456.)
- 5) Shakuhou: $2,461,435,929,640.80 (+ 1,063,163,155,964.70)
- 6) Aescentia: $2,021,542,764,318.00 (+ 649,811,393,704.05)

Economic Strength - (Relative ratings determined based on data given.)
This one was added for a little more complicated reason. Firstly, if you have a more powerful economy, your nation is better equipped to weather a prolonged war without collapsing. Also, more industries means that you can produce more weapons during a war, and may be more difficult to strategically bomb.

- 1) Panzersharkcat: GDP Per Capita $46,898.91, Trade = DEFICIT $637,108,256,616.74, Currency = $2.0157 (Economic Improvement)
- 2) Burnination: GDP Per Capita $37,749.69, Trade = SURPLUS $1,020,637,846,252.73, Currency = $1.8084 (Economic Regress)
^ 3) Selathorn: GDP Per Capita $40,948.91, Trade = SURPLUS $47,816,171,816.14, Currency = $1.8835 (Economic Improvement)
V 4) Rutianas: GDP Per Capita $33,741.08, Trade = SURPLUS $1,027,239,582,680.55, Currency = $1.7097 (Economic Improvement)
^ 6) Shakuhou: GDP Per Capita $8,684.24, Trade = SURPLUS $56,541,257,004.74, Currency = $0.46363 (Economic Improvement)
V 5) Aescentia: GDP Per Capita $6,862.72, Trade = SURPLUS $230,026,241,430.43, Currency = $0.41215 (Economic Regress)

Population; -->(IN MILLIONS)<--
This is included for another simple reason. Population matters. Nations can be powerful just on sheer numbers. Real world example: China.

- 1) Panzersharkcat: 6920
- 2) Rutianas: 5282
- 3) Burnination: 4232
- 4) Selathorn: 1764
- 5) Shakuhou: 1323
- 6) Aescentia: 1323

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OVERALL RANKINGS

This list is essentially my interpretation of all the previous lists. This list is debatable. Also note that this time, all ratings are relative. The most powerful country received a 10, and all nations were then scored between 0 (no military) and 10 (the most powerful nation in the region). The political stability is added as a range. In other words, at any given point, a nation's military is within the range given by the rankings.

Format:
Raw score - Modified score: Nation
Description
Raw score - Modified score: Nation
Description

10.0 - 10.0: Rutianas
Spending back up, and the recently flagging economy thing stopped happening.
8.2 - 8.2: Burnination
Spending relatively stagnant. Economy finally stopped rising.
7.9 - 7.9: Panzersharkcat
Econ, up. Spend, up.
3.55 - 3.55: Selathorn
Massive economic increase. The sheer numbers even look better than the numbers from Burnination, and only inertia kept Selathorn from taking second position. In other words, unless Burnination puts the economic pedal down, Selathorn will take position 2 next report. Nice spending increase as well.
0.85 - 0.85: Shakuhou
Up spending, up economy. Still a long way to go, however.
0.75 - 0.75: Aescentia
Increase in spending, but decrease in economic output.