International Military Report (FT) - September 2012

We're back after a short interruption for my lifeguarding job at camp . Also special thanks to Sela for doing some subtraction for me .

For the modern International Military Report, I use an application from the region of Texas that I find to be awesome. 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.

The PLEASE READ SECTION:

Guys, please tell Panzer to put your nation in the convenient links page if you are not already there for me so that I don't have to remember to add you to the list in the future. These things are monsters to write! And I believe that this is the most nations I have ever included, so.

Also, discuss doing change in percent instead of numbers. Would this be more meaningful?

Older reports on these forums:
June 2012
April 2012
March 2012
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

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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: $193,148,789,464,358.00 (- $4,957,231,777,498.00)
- 2) Selathorn: $103,917,936,627,806.00 (+ $7,191,905,441,319.00)
^3) Hispania Ulterior: $46,889,736,381,337.50 (+ $27,463,160,003,426.00)
V4) Burnination: $45,712,030,560,279.60 (+ $2,886,529,784,560.10)
- 5) Panzersharkcat: $35,254,592,886,487.30 (+ $1,972,195,783,054.90)
V6) Sacae: $34,535,422,502,217.50 (+ $7,891,000,800,199.80)
- 7) Bastian Dominion: $588,200,959,180.80 (+ $987,684,690,117.60)

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 $47,886.13, Currency = $2.0368 (Economic Growth)
- 2) Burnination: GDP Per Capita $44,992.67, Currency = $1.9743 (Economic Regress)
- 3) Selathorn: GDP Per Capita $43,691.25, Currency = $1.9455 (Economy Stagnant)
- 4) Sacae: GDP Per Capita $39,045.92, Currency = $1.8392 (Economic Growth)
^5) Hispania Ulterior: GDP Per Capita $31,652.73, Currency = $1.5331(Economic Growth)
V6) Rutianas: GDP Per Capita $29,634.71 Currency = $1.6023 (Economic Regress)
- 7) Bastian Dominion: GDP Per Capita $15,513.07, Currency < $1 (Economic Growth)

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) Hispania Ulterior: 14810
- 2) Panzersharkcat: 11121
- 3) Rutianas: 9487
- 4) Burnination: 8435
- 5) Selathorn: 5992
- 6) Sacae: 3526
- 7) Bastian Dominion: 1863

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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(Spend)/1000000) * ((PopInTril*GDPPerCap)/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!

Military score: 319.499	Military Spending: $460,046,709,381,666.70	Total GDP: $2.0712011 x 10^15
19.56% Rutian	41.98% Rutian	25.74% Rhean (Panzersharkcat)
17.73% Veridian (Veridia Prime/Hispania Ulterior)	22.59% Alpha Centauri (Selathorn)	21.58% Veridian (Veridia Prime/Hispania Ulterior)
17.60% Rhean (Panzersharkcat)	10.19% Veridian (Veridia Prime/Hispaia Ulterior)	18.35% Burninite
16.17% Alpha Centauri (Selathorn)	9.94% Burninite	13.59% Rutian
15.85% Burninite	7.66% Rhean (Panzersharkcat)	12.67% Alpha Centauri (Selathorn)
11.61% Sacaen	7.51% Sacaen	6.67% Sacaen
1.5% Bastian	0.13% Bastian	1.40% Bastian

62.508 (-) - 10.00: Rutianas
Rut, I had Sela do the subtraction on your military spending because it is always annoying. You should just get infinite spending and we'll call it a day. Gosh. Thanks Sela. And also, watch out for Rut's lagging economic stats. Could come back to bite her sometime.
56.657 (+) - 9.06: Hispania Ulterior (VP)
Nice save on the economy. You should be president . Also military spending shot up. So yeah, that was pretty good. The reason that had such a great effect was the population of the state.
56.232 (+) - 9.00: Panzersharkcat
Average changes here, and insulated from the rise of the Centauri thus far only because of sheer size.
51.660 (+) - 8.27: Selathorn (Alpha Centauri)
Second nation to top 100 trillion in military spending. Nice work. Only lagging stat is population. And seriously, we'd all be in trouble if it were even approaching the population of even something marginally bigger, like Burnination.
Nice steady improvements. Would like to see if the increases in economic stats AND military spending stats are sustainable.
50.654 (+) - 8.10: Burnination
Pretty average changes, as usual. Not nearly enough increase to keep up with powers that seem to be rapidly militarizing. This is the bottom of the second line. Rutianas is the first line military power, with 6 points of score between her and the next nation. The next 4 nations (Hispania to Burnination) fall within the next 6 points. These powers remain fairly equal, with some military power distinction, but all fairly powerful.
37.080 (+) - 5.93: Sacae
Good all around increases. Still a ways to go to really sit with the top 5. Would like to see how this one goes in the long run.
4.708 (+) - 0.753 Bastion Dominion
OK, percentage wise, I suppose that was pretty good for an increase. But still kind of a pointless nation there.

Announcement post (reserved)

100% complete report

Heh, yeah I'm doing a fair job on the economy but it's still far from where I want it.

OK, I finished this guys. Can sticky. Should check out the scores and descriptions!

can i get put into this?

Certainly. I shall add you next report .

For stat purposes, I think I'll bring back Tomania and use that for the Bastian Dominion. That or Super Greater Germany.

No, minor nations should remain minor