International Military Report (FT) - August 2011

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.

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.

Sorry for the delay this month.

Oldest reports can be found on the old forums.
Older reports on these forums:
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
April 2011
March 2011
February 2011
January 2011
December 2010
November 2010
October 2010
September 2010
August 2010

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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: $134,127,389,546,016.00 (+ abignumber)
- 2) Burnination: $39,829,184,111,099.30 (- $5,866,182,965,222.20)
- 3) Selathorn: $37,323,517,142,308.30 (+ $3,519,809,534,901.10)
- 4) Panzersharkcat: $24,473,470,049,582.40 (+ $2,308,364,308,514.90)
- 5) Aescentia: $4,825,397,986,057.44 (+ $358,623,822,493.20)

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 $47,458.21, Trade = DEFICIT $721,064,761,476.19, Currency = $2.0277 (Economic Improvement)
- 2) Selathorn: GDP Per Capita $44,645.75, Trade = DEFICIT $164,458,359,887.30, Currency = $1.9667 (Slight Economic Regress)
- 3) Burnination: GDP Per Capita $43,321.84, Trade = SURPLUS $106,150,553,209.79, Currency = $1.9373 (Economic Improvement)
- 4) Rutianas: GDP Per Capita $28,597.47, Trade = SURPLUS $2,830,470,507,859.77, Currency = $1.5740 (Slight Economic Regress)
- 5) Aescentia: GDP Per Capita $23,417.47, Trade = DEFICIT $356,484,774,376.30, Currency = $1.0767 (Slight Economic Regress)

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

- 1) Panzersharkcat: 8768
- 2) Rutianas: 7144
- 3) Burnination: 6100
- 4) Selathorn: 3619
- 5) Aescentia: 3162

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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: Nation
Description
Raw score - Relative score: Nation
Description

48.6422771 (+) - 10.0: Rutianas
A big number. That pretty much sums it up.
45.371155 (+) - 9.33: Panzersharkcat
Continues to put space between itself and Burnination, as its military spending rises.
40.8383999 (-) - 8.4: Burnination
Continues to drop military spending by the boatload.
31.4181055 (+) - 6.46: Selathorn
Under ten points away from the smallest of the big three for the first time. Still rising.
12.7536415 (+) - 2.62: Aescentia
Same old story.

Considering dropping the figure surplus/deficit.
1) They are not factors in determining actual military strength.
2) They are not truly good indicators, since any trade imbalance is eventually corrected or balanced.
3) They are an extra number I have to copy/paste over and over.

Thoughts?

I agree. Drop the surplus/deficit thing. I stopped doing that for the same reasons.

Lol! A big number. Yeah, I think that sums it all up too.

Mhm, yeah, it's all rather pointless.

The freaking calculators would only give me your increase in scientific notation, and I didn't feel like dealing with it. So, yeah