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:wall: You would flood the market and make them worthless. 100 jets and 100 submarines...do you know how much 1 jet and 1 submarine costs? Also, Russian car companies are barred from setting up in the SR. Honda-Toyota has a monopoly here for a while, and nobody would work for a Russian company anyways. [hide=AK2015][/hide] Emphasis is on a powerful gun that can shoot through infantry armour, is reliable, and is cheap to mass produce.

It's always funny watching people get all flustered about the benefits and cost of using Marijuana (that's probably the first time I've actually spelled it in full haha). Personally, I'm apathetic to the whole thing. I don't smoke myself, but don't care if people smoke it. It's their body.

On the map, it appears to be separate. :unsure: Holland is the western part of the Netherlands. It would be like saying Canada and Quebec form together to make the Canadian Federation. Lol.

I'm not voting yet. It doesn't matter either way to me. -- Reformation of the SR military is going on. Enlistment will last for 6 months for all personnel not deemed necessary (meaning everyone but high up officers and specialist positions, like pilots and radar technicians and the like). After 6 months their term will end and they will return to civilian work and life, and new recruits will be brought in. The military isn't raising the troop level, so infantry forces will remain at 9,000, naval at 3,000, and air force at 1,000. 13,000 in total.

Okay, vote. Who says the money available should be 1%? And who says 4%? 0/0 *shrug* Just don't be surprised when someone ends up invading another country with 50,000 tanks bearing the label 'Made in the Slavic Republic' on them.

I've captured the king of NO STRING. Long live the new king, King Hook I! My army is now 89,000 loyalists + 400,000 troops from the past king that need to be weeded through to determine their loyalties. I pay them in dead chickens instead of coins now, though. Because they smell.

20% of your GDP you get in taxes 20% of that you can spend on random stuff So...4% of your GDP is available for spending. Also, nobody wants my hugely booming industrial complex to mass produce them weapons/vehicles/aircraft/ships?

Well I already know my budget, so... I go by what's reasonable for a country my size. Which means I generally under-spend.

Eh, not as much. Most of the Favelas are nonexistent, new towns are popping up, and with a lot of new industry there is almost no unemployment. The average GDP per capita is probably around 16-17,000 now, which is pretty good. Russia's (irl) is 11k/person, and china's is 6k/person. They're doing way more than me. EDIT: @Dungeon, eh I'm not gonna go after Africa, and nothing above Panama. That way I can focus on making this area into a superpower without having to either not pay enough attention to each state, or having to micromanage way too much. A 50% raise in GDP per capita after only 4 years? -- Talks with Slovenia are going well.

Doom, you still have a rampant poverty problem in BRazil (taking control over some companies isn't really going to fix it that easily), so just keep that in mind.

In Soviet Russia, land needs you!

Taking over Yemen and South Africa isn't exactly treading lightly :P

That's the whole point. Most people tend to tread lightly so they don't anger everyone, at least until they're powerful enough to defy everyone. The problem is you kept zerg rushing across Asia (and the world) and pissed off too many people. Sort of like what Arch did. So, you've dug a hole. Build a ladder, or keep digging to get to the core and detonate a nuke and blow up the planet. Weeee conflict.

Someone saying "I control the Japanese people!" doesn't mean they actually do. You know the rules, and who's the moderator (Sere), so if anyone but him says that you can just tell them to piss off back to FantasyLand. For the record, a contract is useless if only one party has signed off on it.

Nature of the beast. A game without conflict isn't fun to play. If you don't like what Australia is doing, block, embargo, invade, proagandize, etc.

Like invading a country with no army because their leader 'pissed you off'? Your moral compass is broken, methinks.

I was told that there was a plebiscite in Indonesia. If you want it so badly, declare war on the Confederation! Geez. There was no plebiscite. Arch said 'The UN calls for a plebiscite!" But it's moot, since Arch doesn't control the UN and doesn't have the authority to do such a thing. Lol Russia calling another country a bully. Classic. -- Someone let me know if there's a war.

I don't have the funds to throw away 20 billion a year in aid to South Africa.

My trade deal still stands with South Africa, and my aid workers and soldiers are still there. How about this. Japan gets the northern half of Indonesia, and Australia gets the southern half. Both serve as a buffer zone against foreign invasion, and both add to each nation's population and economic standing.

I mostly just ignore people that try to blow up the planet. -- And btw, getting UN approval to move into a country and stabilize it doesn't mean you have the authority to prop up a puppet government then annex it. Sheesh. Look at what the SR is doing in Palestine. That's what UN approval allows you to do.

If you join the TFTA then you leave the FETA I'll do the numbers sometime today. And Hearts of Iron :P

Building an HQ wouldn't boost your GDP by more than 0.001%. Need a bit more information, because the way I see it, the military of Abbysninia is still recovering from the battles between it and Russia/Switzerland. And is still pretty divided owing to the fact that it's a multi-national army made from countries that have a long history of hating eachother. Did you give them any military equipment? Because I'm just going to go with half of Somalia/Ethiopia army combined against the full Kenyan army. -- 3/0 Against Makes no sense. If you want Cuba just invade it. Peacefully annexing countries is only possible if they share a common culture.

10 years to somehow evolve gills? Err

Stalk senators and take pictures of them doing stuff that would lose them elections. Then, blackmail.

Fail! It's 2014. :P I guess that's why I keep seeing all these -Random Car- 2011, yes? I knew what year it was, but considering it's now 2015 I figured I might as well just post it as the 2015.