International Military Report (FT) - January/February 2012

ALL: Sorry about the delay on this report; I've had a lot of schoolwork and various things kept popping up and preventing me from sitting down to do this. Appreciate the patience .


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:

December 2011
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: $190,838,786,447,719.00 (+ $39,311,193,933,217.00)
- 2) Selathorn: $80,043,508,123,276.70 (+ $21,837,828,056,259.00)
- 3) Burnination: $38,325,929,351,270.40 (- $8,072,190,806,359.40)
- 4) Panzersharkcat: $30,758,568,227,060.70 (+ $3,099,586,235,841.70)
^5) Bastian Dominion: $265,723,169,587.20 (+ $123,098,646,011.40)

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 $47,916.22, Currency = $2.0374 (Economic Improvement)
- 2) Burnination: GDP Per Capita $45,105.60, Currency = $1.9768 (Economic Improvement)
- 3) Selathorn: GDP Per Capita $43,725.74, Currency = $1.9463 (Economic Improvement)
- 4) Rutianas: GDP Per Capita $33,848.76, Currency = $1.7124 (Economic Improvement)
^5) Bastian Dominion: GDP Per Capita $7,453.90, Currency < $0.4 (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: 9876
- 2) Rutianas: 8247
- 3) Burnination: 7204
- 4) Selathorn: 4756
^5) Bastian Dominion: 667

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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

62.09920504 (+) - 10.00: Rutianas
Why do I bother with words? Look at the numbers.
51.229880719 (+) - 8.25: Panzersharkcat
Possibly the most in need of analysis here. Rutianas and Selathorn are clearly metagaming, while Burnination is simply holding position by inertia. Panzersharkcat is realistically exhibiting steady growth in economic terms and in military spending. A third in military spending is offset by massive population and economic stats.
44.85132297 (+) - 7.22: Burnination
In terms of gross score, very little change: slight increase. Due to a drop in military spending and rise in economy. It is unlikely, however, that such a combo will be able to sustain increases for any extended period of time.
43.134129279 (+) - 6.95: Selathorn
Plus 21 trillion? Who do you think you are? Rutianas? Oh wait, she did something even more ridiculous. Never mind. Seriously though, massive increases.
1.600892072 (+) - 0.26 Bastion Dominion
Tiny tiny, but apparently growing. This is a doubled gross score actually .

You know, I absolutely LOVE your comments on this stuff. LOL!

Well your stuff is absurd, so I figure I'll say absurd stuff about it .

Glad you enjoy it. I enjoy writing it .

Yup. It's a shame Ver left, though. I really was looking forward to the alliance of the two Dominions.

I've actually been sitting around and doing nothing for the past month, do don't blame metagaming too much