INTRODUCTION
For the modern International Military Report, I use an application from the region of Texas that I find to be superior to the old application at NSEconomy. Thanks a bunch Texas! Link for their app is right
here. More helpful links can be found in the
stickied thread by Panzersharkcat on these forums.
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.
Since the addition of the formula, there is a clear, numerical way to determine military power. As a result, I'm going to put a plus or minus after each person's gross military score to show whether their military power increased or decreased over the last month.
Oldest reports can be found on the old forums.
Older reports on these forums:
January 2011December 2010
November 2010
October 2010
September 2010
August 2010
DATA LISTS
Level of Military Technology
Tech levels are important in the military. A bunch of dudes with clubs are going to lose to the army equipped with laser pistols, especially if the group with laser pistols blows the other group's planet up.
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 SpendingDefense 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: $120,421,306,715,414.00
(+ $4,203,986,716,902)- 2) Burnination: $44,135,308,520,898.00
(+ $1,630,639,811,850)- 3) Selathorn: $22,834,249,826,351.00
(+ $3,583,206,912,341.90)- 4) Panzersharkcat: $11,687,280,712,443.00
(- $370,082,945,108.50)- 5) Aescentia: $3,067,250,091,458.72
(+ $309,838,216,101.92)- 6) Shakuhou: $1,316,761,761,272.83
(- $1,282,854,803,037.17)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) Selathorn: GDP Per Capita $44,660.40, Trade = DEFICIT $176,983,615,900.52, Currency = $1.9670
(Economic Improvement)^ 2) Burnination: GDP Per Capita $42,126.35, Trade = SURPLUS $208,568,813,880.75, Currency = $1.9104
(Economic Improvement)V 3) Panzersharkcat: GDP Per Capita $41,748.63, Trade = DEFICIT $864,867,311,402.91, Currency = 1.9018
(Massive Economic Regress)- 4) Rutianas: GDP Per Capita $31,796.00, Trade = SURPLUS $2,110,769,312,929.69, Currency = $1.6597
(Economy Stagnant)- 5) Aescentia: GDP Per Capita $22,412.58, Trade = DEFICIT $350,774,045,902.09, Currency = $1.0533
(Economy Stagnant)- 6) Shakuhou: GDP Per Capita $4,218.13, Trade = DEFICIT $18,464,785,729.12, Currency = $0.2285
(Massive 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: 7672
- 3) Rutianas: 6044
- 4) Burnination: 4996
- 5) Selathorn: 2518
- 6) Aescentia: 2069
- 7) Shakuhou: 1912
OVERALL RANKINGS
This list is essentially my interpretation of all the previous lists. I created a formula to plug the numbers above into to eliminate any subjectivity. Here is the formula for the raw scores:
Please note that the scores given by this formula are objective, but they are not absolutely the final word. If you feel that the rankings are skewed, say so!
Format:
Raw score - Relative score: NationDescription
Raw score - Relative score: NationDescription
45.9223713 (+) - 10.0: RutianasIncrease in military spending from ridiculously high to more ridiculously high. Again. Also, economy stopped falling. Figures almost exactly the same as last time.
37.3925146 (+) - 8.14: BurninationSlight increases across the board. This is essentially what we shoot for.
33.0905343 (-) - 7.21: PanzersharkcatBig 'WHAT?!?!' factor going on right now. Slight slip in military spending, which wasn't unexpected. What was unexpected was the tanked economy! What in the WORLD?!?! Panzersharkcat certainly looks like a decaying empire for some reason.
23.1811968 (+) - 5.05: SelathornTop economy, rising spending. Future looking good for Selathorn, which has been a rising star since its creation.
9.01183992 (+) - 1.96: AescentiaIt's nice that Aescentia has a steady growth in military spending, but the number itself is tiny. Economy can barely be considered decent. I've never had to use stagnant before!
3.04215071 (-) - 0.66: ShakuhouStill needs to work on economy.