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Ico- That would would cause so many problems....I mean look at penguin annexing 2 very small countries.... Or if I wanted Lichtenstien....

I know...But Sere disagrees and imposed it. I wanted a system of influencing other countries by percentage points, so that if one country didn't want another country to take over one of its neighbours it could stop it, without annexing that country... But Sere said it was too complicated, and no one else cared to vote....

Ross... I agree on priciple, but 20 years is 40 days. The game would be incredibly slow and people would start wars just to annex stuff faster.

Ok give me a little while, I was watching something.

Sigh.... Switzerland bars Japan's re-entry for 5 years.

Retech, I was refering to Ico stopping Dusty.... And culturally...Look at the Balkens...they are culturally similar but are constantly at war....Culture does not equal acceptance.

Retech- 1. He can subsidise it. 2. Course they can, there is nothing stopping them....He sends better teachers or builders or whatever then they are gonna choose him over you, arn't they...

Ico- Its back up now, people just haven't joined in. If you want to oppose something then you just call a vote of 4 or more against.

Not really...Ross can just provide them cheaper, better or both...

Yeah... He does.

Retech... 5 year rule...

Retech- Yeah fine by me.

Doom....Fine...I am gonna screw it then. Switzerland is going to take countries to the cleaners and then annex them. I don't want to, but it seems the only way to stop this stupid system from existing.

Doom- Switzerland runs five of the most stable banks in the world today, it controls more Gold than the EU.... Debt exists...and if you want to carry on that system then I will be happy to point out when the world has collapsed on itself...because currently we are 70 Trillion dollars in debt...The World is....There are 70 Trillions dollars out there which don't actually exist, and if more than 11 Trillion were ever claimed the world would collapse.

Ico- Because Gold doesn't determine your economy in the modern world. Since no one ever asks America for 257,200,000,000 dollars in Gold....If they did then the American economy would crash....but because they don't America can say 'Yeah, course we can give you 1 tonne of Gold in exchange for 32.15 million dollars'

Doom....International trading IS based on Gold...That is a FACT. (I didn't mean small countries I mean't small reserves...) Also Switzerland isn't on that chart...

Then they will go out of business because they can't expand, so can't cater to their customers and so go out of bussiness..

Doom, small countries just have to be a bit clever. The USA currently holds 8000 Tonnes of Gold, you could conduct research, buy Gold with the research and thus have gold....It doesn't stop you from becoming powerful, it just stops people from having 900 trillion dollars, while keeping the economy at its current rate....IE that bread costs 1 pound.

And after 10 days I am a multi-trilionaire...after 20 days I am making up new numbers to explain how rich I am.... Doom, its not that big a deal to use Gold reserves...you can still use dollars inside your own country, but when trading you are trading Gold(Which is essentially true in the real world as well)

Ico- A tonne of Gold is worth 32.15 Million Dollars...currently.

Doom...Ok then.... I spend 500000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 billion dollars on buying the planet, I do this by taxing people. I auto win. [/sarcasm] Gold is a good way of stopping that from happening.

Sere- Two countries is not a fest....but I do disagree with the annexation happening so quickly.

Ico You only started out with 606 Tonnes of Gold...

Umbra you have 588 Tonnes of Gold left I think.

18 Tonnes of Gold transfered from Russia to Romania.