Hegemony

[The_Mather1]

Budget roundup:

 

Non-government projects:

Think tank: $15,000,000.

German fuel cells: $50,000,000.

Total: $65,000,000.

 

Cultural funding:

Fertility festival: $100,000,000.

Growth assurance: $10,000,000,000.

Total: $100,100,000,000.

 

Research:

AIs: $10,000,000,000.

De-rusting: $1,000,000,000.

Total: $16,000,000,000.

 

Total: $116,165,000,000.

 

$269,544,850,000

-$116,165,000,000

=$153,419,850,000.

 

I'll do military later today.

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Germany:

"Von Stahl has kept last year's abysmal show of cultural taste fresh in our mind with his continual and incessant apologises, what might have once been assigned to the dust bin of history has become enshrined in the memories of Europeans everywhere." -The Times.

 

Germany holds a European Conference, sporting an array of foods from across the European Continent. There had, at one point, been suggestion of Germany lacing the food with the drugs it had confiscated last year, an idea vigorously promoted by Britain, who boycotted the talks. The notion hung over the talks and lead to a virtual collapse when the agenda for the conference was published...Part 'Look at our amazing achievements' and part 'Why don't you deal with these problems for us', which was unfavourably spun as 'because they are beneath out worldly notice.'

However the talks proceeded, largely thanks to the buffet lunch, entertainment and free bar offered. The German hosts abandoned all of the major issues the talks were meant to deal with, including a two day trip to see a soggy field where a hydroponic towers was going to be built in the future, allowing the conference to turn into a week long summit on Europe. The summit ended with new feelings of unity across Europe, mitigating some of Germany's earlier mistakes.

 

An extensive revision of military policy has drawn considerable attention in Germany, given that they currently have no army. It has been suggested that the newly formed Nationale Sicherheit Dienst, or National Security Service, will form the new backbone of the armed forces, though the government has made no comment on this.

 

Indonesia:

An extensive reform program is in operation, with new public schools, mines, factories and solar energy fields being built and worked by the smiling faced workers of the camera reels.

 

Indonesian Citizens were uninterested to find that Germany was holding 300 Million Dollars worth of drugs, though the Official Indonesian Facebook group has defriended Germany.

 

Indonesia has been praised by social progressors across the world for their enlightened approach to public education and Industrial regulation, while condemned by all Greenpeace for increasing carbon emissions.

Indonesia falls with Japan's 'Ecozone' and Japan is receiving a lot of flak for letting their zone's carbon load increase by 400, though Solar fields in Indonesia offset 200 of this.

 

China:

China has spent its full budget for the next seven years on improved its economy. This advanced stimulus package has increase the Chinese GDP to $5,747,669,641,275, an increase of approximately 2 Billion.

Analysis say that an extremely large proportion of the money invested went into the pockets of corrupt officials, resulting in only a much smaller stimulus than would have otherwise been hoped for.

 

In other news The Night of Anti-Corruption has occurred. The Emperor, in his enlightened wisdom, charged his top five officials to go out into China, seek out corruption wherever it lay, and destroy it. With over twenty million dead, rebellions across much of the country, as villages try to protect themselves from the kill squads...and the kill squads try to protect themselves against other kill squads... All five of the top officials have been killed by each other's kill squads, each of them suspected of corruption, along with a sizeable portion of China's Industrial and Economic Business Owners.

Whether corruption has actually been purged is unknown, at the moment the whole country seems to be fighting for its life in the world's biggest game of 'Last Man Standing'.

The only good news so far is that Carbon Load emissions have decreased considerably, by 50,000 Units. This is suspected to only be the tip of the iceberg, with millions dead, much land and factories destroyed, China could be looking at being the first major country to become a carbon sink.

Swiss Satirist Newspapers have however taken a different view, that China may be the first major country to lose its major country status in the quest to reduce carbon emissions.

The effect the war has had on GDP is not yet known.

Similarly it is unknown at this point if national integrity will be maintained.

 

Italy:

Earlier this year Italy toyed with the idea of Biological Warfare, but later reconsidered. The effect of this has been fairly minor, since no documents were leaked.(Generally a better idea to PM me)

(Viruses can be gened for specific purposes, or they can just be left as 'virus'. Viruses destroy GDP (Up to 30% in any one attack I believe) and can spread across boarders/continents.)

 

Italy has also embarked on a 'Go Green' Policy, supported by the Mascot of Giuseppe the Green Pepper.

So far there has not been much effect of the policy. Low government investment and very small incentives to reduce emissions have been cited as the reasons for this. That is not to say that there has been no progress, and carbon load has been reduced by 20.

 

@Grim: It cost 1 Trillion to set up a Nuclear Weapons Bio-weapons Project, once set up they cost 1 Billion per Mega-tonne attribute you want added.

 

Brazil:

Brazil has embarked on a major afforestation program in the Amazon, which ingeniously pays for itself, or so it is hoped. For now, the Brazilian Government has invested 16 Billion into the project, paying for 1,050,000 People to plant trees and sustainably harvest fruit and wood from the Amazon. It has also been hoped that as many as 50,000 Ecologists and Biologists will turn up in this major effort to repair the damage done over the past 50 years. However, thus far, very few people have turned up, with the majority of them seeing this scheme as a band-aid trying to fix a broken leg, and that it will inevitably turn into another slash and burn, smash and grab scheme.

This view, originally held only be the cynical, gained wide acceptance after Brazil published research papers for a new Heavy Duty Plastic, one which would 'in all likelihood' replace the sustainably harvested wood.

Once people were set against the idea all sorts of 'evidence' emerged, such as a 500,000 Barrel purchase order by the Brazilian government for Oil from the Middle East, and several Petroleum companies leaked documents containing phrases such as 'Subsidy on Oil' and 'The Rain forest Project is my response to the Economic Recession'.

While balanced newspapers, and Brazilian newspapers, tried to explain what was actually meant, the majority blew up a media storm, spreading the word wide and far that Brazil was Evil.

 

Nationally the situation was far better, with Universities and Schools running sponsorship programs to help the workers, and some of the closer ones even are running semester long projects, taking care of parcels of land.

Many other areas had set up projects, but found that the Highways and Rail Links were not very reliable thanks to a huge repair and expansion program financed by the Government.

There has yet to be a sizeable increase in Ecological Degrees taken at Universities, but some Universities are offering incentives.

 

And finally, in Brazil, the lighter side:

The Brazilian government donated 58.6 Billion dollars to Amazonian Chiefs in the form of a novelty sized check. The Amazonian Chiefs, not being so worldly, tore up the check and held a parade, using the paper as confetti for the Brazilian representatives. When the representatives got back to their headquarters a panic message from Central Government said 'There has been a typo, you were meant to send the check to [redacted] not the Amazon!' Fortunately the check was destroyed, and no money was transferred, so has been a source of a great deal of humour in the Brazilian Government.

 

Lithuania:

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Lithuania

GDP: $35,734,000,000.00

Tax Rate: 5.00%

IAD: $1,786,700,000.00

Growth Rate: 2.40%

 

Prestige: 10

World Presence: 0

Technological Prowess: 2

Moral Standing: 4

Biological Impact: 4

Economic Mobility: 0

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Budget is your IAD

 

 

Retech:

Still using the Tax system. It is simpler.

[The_Mather1]

How much would a heliostat thermo-solar powerplant cost?

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Cost: 1 Billion

Duration: 1 Year

Effect:

Provides 10% of your overall power

Reduces carbon emissions by 200.

Can be repeated.

[The_Mather1]

In that case I'll build 5, I've marked seemingly optimal locations.

 

That brings me down to $148,419,850,000.

 

If you could be as kind as to provide costs for various military related equipment such as an aircraft carrier, bombers, fighters, frigates and nuclear submarines then I'll finish up my budget.

 

EDIT: Actually, I'd like to invest $3,410,000,000 into Iceland and I'll just give them $19,850,000 to get rid of the uneven number.

 

That's $145,000,000,000 left.

[Retech]

Brazil releases the following statement to the international press and domestically:

 

The Brazillian nation is committed to tackling the problem of global warming and economic recession. In order to facilitate this, we have invested billions in reforesting the Amazon. Studies have shown that the Amazon rainforest is more productive when it has not been harmed than when it has been cut down and used to raise cattle. This will create jobs as well as reduce carbon emissions, going a long way to solve both problems at the same time.

 

The future of our planet and its people are my top priority, and I will continue to do what is right, though cynics may disagree. When Brazil becomes the first nation to take in more carbon dioxide than it takes in, let it be known that Brazil's vision for a world without ecological disaster and enviromental degradation has succeeded for the nation of Brazil, and that many other nations should adopt the same stance.

 

At the same time, we must recognize that the world economy is in peril. This is why we have promoted the growth of industry and spurred a massive infrastructure project to create jobs. Our economists estimate that the project will bring the nation's unemployment to nearly 1% for several decades. It will modernise Brazil and make it a place that can meet its challenges, overcome its obstacles, and meet its obligations to the world. This is why we are taking a two-pronged approach, investing in infrastructure to create jobs in the short-term and oppertunities in the long term, and investing in our rainforests, to create jobs in the short-term and save our planet as well.

 

Let it be known, that today, Brazillians take a giant leap in the development of the human race!

 

(This is designed to make either the international press turn favorably, or at the very least, get full Brazillian backing for the government, seeing as we are doing a lot to improve the economy for them)

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If you could be as kind as to provide costs for various military related equipment such as an aircraft carrier, bombers, fighters, frigates and nuclear submarines then I'll finish up my budget.

 

http://www.wikipedia.org/

 

?

Allows you to customise it to your desires, since a British aircraft carrier carries <20 aircraft, while an American Aircraft Carrier carries 100<.

And a British Harrier is VTOL, while the F-whatever number it is now, isn't.

 

Reminds me of this:

http://i.imgur.com/qSl3C.png

[The_Mather1]

5 KC-10 Extender at 88 mill each = 440,000,000.

10 F-35 Lightning at 132 mill each 1,320,000,000.

100 F-16 Fighting Falcon at 18.8 mill each = 1,880,000,000.

50 AH-64 Apache at 18 mill each = 900,000,000.

 

I'm going to need the price for these, they are up to you because I can't seem to find a price anywhere:

Nimitz class Aircraft Carrier

Boeing AN/TWQ-1 Avenger Anti-Air system

[The_Mather1]

Actually, last year Norway was buying either JAS Griipen or F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (I believe we bought the JSFs), the JSF has recently been renamed Lightning II.

 

Because I'm paying. They're selling anyways, and Japan is an ally of the US... at least was until the game begun.

 

Thanks, I'll buy 5 Nimitz carriers then, 22,500,000,000.

[The_Mather1]

Note that the press release is two and a half years old.

 

And let Archi decide wether or not existing weapons have to be bought from the nation producing them, since technically I'm buying them from companies, in this case Lockheed Martin, a public company with a worldwide area of service.

Also I'm buying from Boeing, public company, worldwide area of service.

Then the Nimitz, buildt by Northtrop Grumman, public company, worldwide area of service.

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Archi, explain to me how training soldiers works.

Training, Drugs, and all the other work in the same way.

 

First, you research whatever it is. Basic Training, Basic Drugs...whatever...doesn't need researching.

Second you stock every cupboard with the drugs, and drill every solider with training. This costs a flat rate per reset, if you research something but don't want to stock/drill then you don't have to.

Then, when you deploy troops, you can deploy them with whatever training and drugs you want, as long as you have paid for them that reset.

 

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It doesn't cost any extra or save any money if you saying 'I know I have paid for Drug X and Training B' but I don't want to use them for this specific engagement.

However, it can be to your advantage to do so. For example, if you send a bunch of troops against the enemy with 0 training then you can...giving the impression that your forces are totally inept, drawing the enemy into another battle where you use everything to totally destroy them.

Drugs can obviously be stolen as well.

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[The_Mather1]

Nimitz ships are made to order, the reason for that is the same reason as why I choose them; they're freaking HUGE.

[Icuownage]

Can I please redo my military budget from last year?

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Archi - I put this in my PMs, but would $20,000 be a fair flat cost for one moderately trained soldier, with an additional $4,000 per year paid out as wages and $5,000 per reset as training?

I have it down as this:

 

Basic Army Training:

Cost 1 Billion per Reset

Counts as money spent towards Military.

Improves Troop Quality.

 

 

The reason I have it like this is that once you have set up a military school...do you really need to pay for people to attend it? You own the people, you own the school...You are paying money to yourself.

 

 

Shall we say... 2,000*Prestige level is the cost to recruit a wo/man into the army.

20,000 for Indonesia

70,000 for Italy

126,000 for America

If you have 0 Prestige then just 2,000.

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I will note it down.

 

Mather, since someone (stork or spork) controls America, please negotiate with them for a price.

Alternatively, you can produce them yourself, however that is a breech of copyright, and implies some form of espionage to obtain the blueprints.

 

Or you need to conduct a research program to design a new class of whatever, and design it any way you choose.

 

For reference:

----- Design

Cost: 1-2 Billion

Duration: 5-10 years.

Effect:

Allows construction of a new class of ------.

Cheap option reduces combat effectiveness, Fast option reduces reliability.

[The_Mather1]

I just sent him a PM, requesting purchase of the weapons at a slightly increased price a piece.

[The_Mather1]

He won't have to do that, he just orders them from their respective companies, and since multiple Nimitz can be built at once and there's 6 days until the budget reset, I'm in no hurry.

[The_Mather1]

Because they've also constructed other ships at the same time.

 

Seriously, that's like asking how you can have more than one TV on when you've so far only watched one at a time.

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I am kinda going with Rocco's point of view here.

 

To use your analogy Mather:

Its like saying that you get paid $40 to watch TV, and it costs $25 to have a TV.

 

If you have 2 TVs, and you don't get any extra money for having 2 TVs, then you are making a net loss.

 

Also, more convincingly:

All ten Nimitz-class aircraft carriers were constructed between 1968 and 2006 at Newport News Shipbuilding Company, in Newport News, Virginia, in the largest dry dock in the western hemisphere, dry dock 12,

[Icuownage]

It's expensive, you should just buy one overpowered ship, and hope it lasts for a few generations.

[Guest Rob]

This year, I'm hiring 100,000 soldiers, for a total of $8B ($60000 a solider + $20,000 for training/arms/living supplies)

Project green will continue, with an additional $10 billion invested in it. This should create lots of new jobs, reduce CIs, and increase infrastructure.

$40B will be used to build aircraft and naval units. (Can I just say I have $40B worth of military units, and then say what they are later?)

$42B is used to fund project A. I'll PM archi the details.

The remaining $900B or so is used for infrastructure.

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Yeah, I will put it down as a Fund, and you just say what you want and if there is a delivery time I will backtrack to here (unless you are fighting a war, obviously)

[Guest Rob]

^ PMed the details.

[jasignhagj]

America's new president has a job, and will not be able to deal with anyone until next year.

[The_Mather1]

It's expensive, you should just buy one overpowered ship, and hope it lasts for a few generations.

It's the largest military ship in existance (I believe), how can I get anything more OP?

 

But that's fine then, I'll spend 15 billion making a set of huge drydocks and another 8 researching designs for an even larger carrier then.