International Military Report (FT) - December 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.

This month, I added (mostly for my own use, but you may use it as well) the text form of the formula so that I can copy/paste it instead of having to recreate it from the image each time I make this report!

Oldest reports can be found on the old forums.
Older reports on these forums:
November 2011
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: $151,527,592,514,502.00 (+ $3,845,681,789,362.00)
- 2) Selathorn: $58,205,680,067,017.70 (+ $6,271,537,363,241.40)
- 3) Burnination: 46,398,120,157,629.80 (+ $3,060,648,377,700.20)
- 4) Panzersharkcat: $27,658,981,991,219.00 (+ $322,667,093,448.60)
- 5) Aescentia: $5,971,952,470,016.00 (+ $1,963,200,940,407.20)
- 6) Veridia Prime: $931,235,145,984.00 (+ $393,000,988,352.34)
- 7) Bastian Dominion: $142,624,523,575.80 (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 $46,913.73, Currency = $2.016 (Economic Regress)
- 2) Burnination: GDP Per Capita $43,232.17, Currency = $1.9353 (Economic Improvement)
- 3) Selathorn: GDP Per Capita $42,936.80, Currency = $1.9287 (Economic Improvement)
- 4) Rutianas: GDP Per Capita $28,918.86, Currency = $1.5828 (Economic Regress)
- 5) Veridia Prime: GDP Per Capita $25,814.76, Currency < $1 (Economic Regress)
- 6) Aescentia: GDP Per Capita $23,912.38, Currency = $1.088 (Economic Improvement)
- 7) Bastian Dominion: GDP Per Capita $9,805.36, Currency < $0.5 (No Previous Data)

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: 9466
- 2) Rutianas: 7841
- 3) Burnination: 6801
- 4) Selathorn: 4336
- 5) Aescentia: 3860
- 6) Veridia Prime: 429
- 7) Bastian Dominion: 259

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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:

If you're interested, you can plug it into your Linux style computer calculator or Google search bar like this:
Sqrt((((Sqrt(Spending)/1000000))*((Pop*GDPCap)/1000)))
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

52.83226648 (+) - 10.00: Rutianas
I always enjoy the fact that if you take the entire global economy, multiply it by ten, and spend it all on something military related, you don't quite have as much spending as the Rutian empire does. Almost though .
48.327271933 (+) - 9.15: Panzersharkcat
Spending rise has leveled off, and a slight economic loss, means that Panzersharkcat's rise over the past few months is probably finished. It did fly past Burnination, and nearly caught Rutianas thanks to a massive population and powerful economy.
44.752262999 (+) - 8.47: Burnination
As usual, steady increases. Like Goldilocks; not as fast as Selathorn, but not as slow as Panzersharkcat this month.
37.687802539 (+) - 7.13: Selathorn
Chaining large spending boosts without damaging the economy is somewhat technically impossible, but it is affecting large gains in Selathorni military strength. Especially comparatively, you'll see that Burnination and Rutianas gained just under a point in raw score, and Panzer closer to half a point, while Selathorn picked up 2 points.
15.01876216 (+) - 2.84: Aescentia
Nice gains across the board, but Aescentia will need to sustain such gains for a while to catch up to the major powers.
3.2 (+) - 0.61: Veridia Prime
I lost the rest of the decimal places. Sorry . But it's a decent gain over last month ^.^.
0.979332586 (X) - .19 Bastion Dominion
Ohai Panpan .