International Military Report (FT) - March 2012

This is the FT military report, written this month by Panzersharkcat, outside of the introduction and formula.


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:

January/February 2012
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: $182,076,325,794,156.00 (- $8,762,460,653,563.00)
- 2) Selathorn: $83,506,187,875,868.90 (+ $3,462,679,752,592.20)
- 3) Veridia Prime: $43,438,453,488,670.30 (Previous data severely outdated)
- 4) Burnination: $32,847,024,986,118.50 (- $5,478,904,365,151.90)
- 5) Panzersharkcat: $30,873,428,791,405.2 (+ $114,860,564,344.50)
- 6) Bastian Dominion: $316,716,521,472.00 (+ $50,993,351,884.80)

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 $46,888.24, Currency = $2.0155 (Economic Regress)
- 2) Burnination: GDP Per Capita $46,216.63, Currency = $2.0010 (Economic Improvement)
- 3) Selathorn: GDP Per Capita $43,656.58, Currency = $1.9448 (Economic Regress)
- 4) Rutianas: GDP Per Capita $32,242.53, Currency = $1.6713 (Economic Regress)
- 5) Veridia Prime: GDP Per Capita $29,181.72, Currency = $1.5900 (Previous data severely outdated)
- 6) Bastian Dominion: GDP Per Capita $7,442.14, Currency = $0.37 (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) Veridia Prime: 13730
- 2) Panzersharkcat: 10010
- 3) Rutianas: 8373
- 4) Burnination: 7327
- 5) Selathorn: 4881
- 6) Bastian Dominion: 795

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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

60.35572514(+) - 10.00: Rutianas
Rutianas cut some of its defense budget? That's not true! That's impossible!
51.38771424(+) - 8.51: Veridia Prime
I rather regret approving the use of Hispania Ulterior as the stat nation for Veridia Prime. Still, I assume it will a while before it actually builds up to this point in RP, as I seriously doubt the tiny ships of the small fleet Veridia Prime currently wields will threaten the Rhean fleet. Well, at least the Dominion War, if it comes, will be lively.
51.06757326 (-) - 8.46: Panzersharkcat
Meanwhile, Rhea steadily gains on Rutianas and drops to third because of Veridia Prime.
44.12745937 (+) - 7.31: Selathorn
Despite its slight economic regress, its boosted defense budget and growing population nudges it just ahead of Burnination.
44.05409087 (-) - 7.30: Burnination
Despite a fairly sizable budget cut, Burnination remains nearly unchanged in raw score and actually rose a bit in relative score. Still, it's now behind the relatively small Selathorn.
1.824736511 (+) - 0.26 Bastion Dominion
Still the tiniest of us all.

Meh. I didn't have a lot of military issues last month.

Technically, I haven't really been making full use of my military score either, so maybe I should start busting out the carriers and whatnot

Eh, I'll go back to around 40 trillion at some point. Not really concerned .

More concerned that doing the next one without the BBcode from this one might be annoying .

Interested though Panpan, did the text version of the formula work for you or did you have to mod it? Because it works for me in my computer's calculator. Running Linux 6 I think.

I had to do it manually on a calculator. Not fun at all. Google refused to do that for me and I got too lazy to redo the formula.

Hmm, it works plug and play on my computer. I have most of a program written in Visual Basic that I can export as a .exe when I have a Windows machine to finish it on that will do pretty much the whole report for me if I copy/paste the numbers from the current month and last month. So that'll happen eventually.

Yeah, well C++ is kicking my ass so I won't be doing that for a bit.

This would be really easy with a graphing calculator, actually. You guys think too much

I know. I just didn't feel like reaching for my graphing calculator, which was six inches away from my scientific calculator. Using the graphing calculator is how I normally do the figures.

I knew a bigger population was a plus, but given on NS its only a 13% defense spending compared to everyone else's 50% or more, I really did not think I'd get as high on the list as I did. That said being still very new to the game, I'll be down playing my position on this list greatly for obvious reasons for some time.

Nice to know I can be a galactic player one day

Argh, if only I had your population. I would have about 150 score

Metagamers.

Well, I am at a disadvantage. Your nations are so ridiculously large compared to mine.

It is easy with a graphing calculator, but from my program I'd just copy/paste BB code which is MUCH easier.

While I have other nations actually larger than my HU, they are all being used at the moment Sel. Out of all my free and otherwise unused nations, the highest population is 6.758 billion. It would help put you right behind Burn though, it would need work though in areas of defense.

As time passes, the population gap becomes less significant as a percentage of the total population. So in short, you're always catching us in that aspect anyway. Also since population is linked directly to economy in the formula, you can overcome some of the disadvantage by having more productive citizens.