International Military Report (FT) - November 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.

Oldest reports can be found on the old forums.
Older reports on these forums:
September 2011
August 2011
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: $147,681,910,725,140.00 (- $2,931,360,233,019.00)
^ 2) Selathorn: $51,934,142,703,776.30 (+ 16,512,919,149,113.90)
V 3) Burnination: $43,337,471,779,929.60 (+ $285,110,215,414.00)
- 4) Panzersharkcat: $27,336,314,897,770.40 (+ $1,765,406,562,675.20)
- 5) Aescentia: $4,008,751,529,608.80 (- $1,194,201,975,077.28)
- 6) Veridia Prime: $538,234,157,631.66 (No previous data)

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 $47,920.33, Currency = $2.0375 (Economy Stagnant)
- 2) Burnination: GDP Per Capita $43,086.25, Currency = $1.932 (Slight Economic Regress)
- 3) Selathorn: GDP Per Capita $41,889.65, Currency = $1.9050 (Economic Regress)
- 4) Rutianas: GDP Per Capita $28,949.98, Currency = $1.5837 (Economic Regress)
- 5) Veridia Prime: GDP Per Capita $26,393.50, Currency = $1.2780 (No Previous Data)
- 6) Aescentia: GDP Per Capita $17,200.49, Currency < $1 (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: 9274
- 2) Rutianas: 7642
- 3) Burnination: 6595
- 4) Selathorn: 4131
- 5) Aescentia: 3662
- 6) Veridia Prime: 222

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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

51.851279345 (-) - 10.00: Rutianas
Superspender as usual.
48.203485016 (+) - 9.30: Panzersharkcat
Same old story; giant economy, low spending. Though spending is starting to come up a bit.
43.250650269 (+) - 8.33: Burnination
Good average spending, lost a little tiny bit more of that very good economy. Slight gain in gross score from population increase.
35.313779837 (+) - 6.81: Selathorn
More giant gains spurred by a Rutianas-sized increase in military spending.
11.230054507 (-) - 2.56: Aescentia
Same old story.
2.073326954 (X) - 0.40: Veridia Prime
Don't worry, just up your military spending to our obscene levels!

You forgot the Bastians.

EDIT: Oh, right. Do it for the Bastian Dominion and not the Bastian Star Empire. I forgot the password for the BSE and forgot to provide an email.

Yes I've been working on increasing military spending, which of course already accounts for 41% of the expenditure as it is. Wish my nation was older but I don't mind working my way up, seems a bit more realistic anyhow That said, I always seem to tank at 50% military spending, even my oldest nation is only at 50%.

Well Veridia, we've all made our countries ridiculously powerful. Only Ace has a reasonable spending count.

@ Panpan, I didn't forget the Bastians, you didn't tell me to put them on. If you want 'em, link 'em in your helpful links for military reports thread, because I do all the nations on that.

Put it up. Technically, I don't think Aescentia exists in this galaxy anymore.

I will add them next month. I compile all the data from the offsite location at the same time to ensure that it's all the same update, and I'm not recalculating the entire report.

Sure. Give them time to grow.