International Military Report (FT) - September 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.)

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August 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: $90,961,611,449,604.90 (- 13,639,322,814,713.33)
- 2) Burnination: $35,506,688,048,835.70 (+ 1,372,920,604,313.32)
- 3) Selathorn: $21,596,215,665,460.50 (- 2,190,960,816,475.51)
- 4) Panzersharkcat: $8,049,695,737,788.18 (+ 4,202,579,965,506.93)
- 5) Shakuhou: $1,398,272,773,676.10 (Unknown)
V 5) Aescentia: $1,371,731,370,613.95 (+ 7,653,445,271.47)

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 $44,097.02, Trade = DEFICIT $1,355,351,409,257.45, Currency = $1.9546 (Economic Improvement)
- 2) Burnination: GDP Per Capita $38,440.69, Trade = SURPLUS $1,283,020,021,836.22, Currency = $1.8249 (Economic Improvement)
^ 3) Rutianas: GDP Per Capita $29,201.85, Trade = SURPLUS $2,246,362,985,157.66, Currency = $1.5906 (Economic Regress)
V 4) Selathorn: GDP Per Capita $25,625.95, Trade = SURPLUS $36,674,100,695.62, Currency = $1.2593 (Economic Regress)
- 5) Aescentia: GDP Per Capita $8,812.08, Trade = SURPLUS $21,720,523,069.90, Currency = $0.4670 (Economic Regress)
- 6) Shakuhou: GDP Per Capita $6,208.86, Trade = SURPLUS $22,466,704,495.88, Currency = $0.3395 (Unknown)

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: 6741
- 2) Rutianas: 5101
- 3) Burnination: 4042
- 4) Selathorn: 1579
- 5) Shakuhou: 1141
V 6) Aescentia: 1130

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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
Dropped more spending than most nations have to begin with. It's significant. However, Rutianas still has almost three times the spending of its nearest competitor. What you really want to look out for is the Rutian economy, which is flagging.
8.4 - 8.4: Burnination
Lookout for that economy. Spending relatively stagnant.
7.9 - 7.88: Panzersharkcat
Economy back on the rise, spending almost back into the 10 trillions, Panzersharkcat is definitely a force to look out for. It's coming back from the slump following its defeat during the reign of Mordred.
3.35 - 3.34: Selathorn
Usually a climber, Selathorn dropped spending, and had an unprecedented economic regress. Watch the Selathorni economy for further details. Just now though, I'd advise against investing in any Selathorni operation.
0.85 - 0.85: Shakuhou
Economy needs work before anything else can really get going for Shakuhou.
0.8 - 0.8: Aescentia
Economy needs work before anything else can really get going for Aescentia.

Yeah, yeah, so I dropped my military spending and my economy is dropping a little. Give me time.

You've still got loads of spending. It's the economy that might become a problem.

Goddamnit, it was around 47,500 per capita yesterday. Blah!

Panzersharkcat wrote:

Goddamnit, it was around 47,500 per capita yesterday. Blah!

Your civil rights are considered 'excessive'. Anything above 'World Benchmark' (which 'excessive' is) actually lowers your economic score. In other words, make some more laws

I'm pretty sure it was around there yesterday. Dunno what keeping cops from doing searches due to insane privacy laws has to do with it.

I'm just trying to get the tax down to a lower percentage, I can mess with the economy later :/

Hmm. NSEconomy says my GDP per capita is $47,704.56. NSDossier says $47,853.09. Hmm.

Aescentia
Burnination
Panzersharkcat
Rutianas
Selathorn
Shakuhou

Convenient links are convenient. No having to search every goddamn time. You probably do that already, but this is for all others and me.

I just bookmark them