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Hello eUK.

Before I get into the nitty gritty of my Economics platform for the next month if I win the election I must remind you to follow MoD orders and get our country back! At the time of writing the priority battle in the UK is South East of England. Please vote this up and fight. We are also attacking numerous Canadian held regions so our outlook should be better by tomorrow. Help with the war effort; read this.



I’d also like to State that I’ve just put up my Cabinet Apps for the month. Prior to publishing this article I have spoken Count Drakula who is currently CGS and I’m happy to say that he has accepted my offer to him of Minister of Defence. I have all the confidence in CD to continue to do well this month. I think both myself and my opponent will agree CD is the best man for the job.

Read this thread for Cabinet apps


The way this manifesto will be structured is as followe😛

- The new Raw materials and what I plan to do with them.
- Ministry of Finance
- Ministry of Trade
- Other Dastardly stuff

Enjoy Reading. This is once again another warning that this will be TL😉R. Especially the part about the new resources as it’s very important.

Raw Materials

First of all I want to do some mythbusting. It is easy for someone who hasn’t looked at the new module to confuse it with the old one, especially as some of the terminology is the same. Perhaps the most confusing thing is that there are medium and high regions, but the bonus’ have completely changed. Before the new module appeared, medium regions produced only half as much as a high region. Now the bonus’ are reversed and the high region bonus (as opposed to medium region penalty) is 25% on production. So for example:

Old rules:

High = 100 grain produces
Medium = 50 grain produces
Low = Pretty much nothing.

New rules:

Medium = 100 grain
High = 125 grain


Kevy Can into understanding of module. 😎

As you can see, the difference between medium and high production is a lot smaller. This means that whereas in the past medium regions were a complete waste of time, the productivity loss from lacking a resource in this module is much more affordable: Medium companies have 80% of the productivity of high region companies. This would mean our grain companies will be producing 20% less grain than if we had a high region, thus our grain will also be 20% more expensive.

In addition, productivity changes to the raw materials sector as a whole mean that grain is produced at a slower rate than in the last module. This means that we will need more.
As my opponent has stated in his manifesto, one way to quickly increase productivity is to acquire a grain region. However the government has to be realistic and do a cost/benefit analysis. In the long term, is the value of the extra grain worth more than the cost of declaring war on an allied nation, losing 1300g worth of MPPs, then region swapping into a region?

I estimate the costs as being a minimum of 3000g, assuming we pay for the DoW, replacing both sides of every MPP we cancel doing so, taking regions from (for example) France, and then rw’ing the ones we don’t need. In addition, the danger of the region being taken from us as North Dakota was taken from Ireland is very high, meaning our 3000g investment could be flushed down the toilet.


Something I don't plan on doing.

What do I estimate the value of our grain market at? After speaking to some of the people who are good at this sort of stuff (Iain Keers, Phoenix SG) he has said our grain market is currently worth a maximum of ~30g per day which is mainly from income tax.

With that in mind; having a high grain region would not benefit us when you consider the cost of getting one. Unlike my opponent, I have outlined the benefits and drawbacks of acquiring regions and will personally not waste 3000g to raise income by an insignificant amount.

The other resources: fish, cattle, fruit, deer, saltpetre, rubber and aluminium are not “raw materials” as they were in the old module. There are only three exploitable raw materials: Oil (so far we don’t know what this does), grain and iron. The rest are just there as productivity boosters for Food and Weapon production.

We have two major food products: cattle and fish. This means we should have a 10% boost on food.

Again, I have done the maths and without an enormous population the cost of invading another country or swapping with an ally in pursuit of a third food region, far outweighs any benefit to the government. It would be stupid to pursue such a policy when the economic gain for the country would amount to perhaps 10g extra per day in total economic output, and make 1.5g per day in extra taxes.

At that rate, it would take about five years of holding the region to regain the financial losses.

Finally on the issue of migration. The UK has high iron regions, which CAN be exploited to give us an exportable resource. Therefore we aim to move some of our grain industry to iron, simply because the export of iron would counterbalance the now-ultimately-necessary import of grain.


UK's High Iron! 😁

In the immediate future it would be best to self-supply grain. Our economists, the Minister of Trade and I will soon make a decision over the alteration of grain taxes. This is largely pending on the admins release of more information, but also on the production of estimates on how much gold we would stand to gain and how much food prices would rise if we left them unchanged.

Therefore, we will have to make a choice on whether we lower the trade barriers to save costs on grain or keep them and use the extra income for social schemes whilst enduring slightly higher food costs.

The big economic challenge of the new term won’t be met with clumsy region swaps, but with careful understanding of the resources we have. As I have already said, the economic advantage of having high grain now cannot be compared to what it was in V1, V2 or V1.5.

High regions give countries an advantage, but the admins have suggested that changes to the war module are coming; which could effectively lead to even more problems with holding onto regions. I don’t know about you, but I’m not willing to risk an attack whilst any country can undo it within hours of conquering. We should be spending our money more efficiently, like having fun with Canada/USA. 😉

Ministry of Finance




We all love Thatcher ( I just got chills down my spine for saying that.) but he’s not going to be around forever. For the next month the MoF will have an important uM who will be looking at the many aspects of the MoF Job (Monitoring the MM, assessing how much we sold GBP wise and much more). This will be collected and made into a report for Congress to see and will go into more detail than the regular MoF reports. This will mean Congress will know exactly how much we’re spending, our state of the market and GBP and will give them to chance to discuss it sensibly under closed doors. This would also help discuss the amount of tax for each item and give congress something else to do.

Ministry of Trade



This is probably one of the most important Ministries this month. As mentioned above with the new resources we will have to monitor our markets more regularly than we have over the last few months. The Minister of Trade will continue to do two reports per week and will contain any important finds on the market (such as random shifts in supply or demand) and report on the state of wellness per gold along with the general market conditions.

As for the Ministry of Profit department that I have mentioned in the previous manifesto that I did; this will be assessed by the Minister of Trade and myself. Currently we have 2 Stone companies, 1 q1 housing company, 1 q4 housing company, 1 q1 food and 1 grain. This means that four out of the six companies in the MoP are currently worthless. As the admins have stated that migrations will be allowed I will not back down on the idea of still having a Ministry of Profit but it will be toned down quite a bit as it’s currently not one of my Priorities.

Other Dastardly Plan

As you may have noticed, my opponent sneakily put on a domestic idea to his latest manifesto in regards to gifting. I liked the idea and all I have to say about that is.

Two can play at that game.

My plan for an increased gifting scheme will be to run a side scheme with it that company owners (Yes, you.) can apply for their employees to be contacted and gifted. How many times have you been running a company and someone with terrible wellness have taken up a new job and you’ve made a loss on them? Well. With the help of this scheme I plan to not only try to solve this ancient problem but also try encouraging the wellness lacking employees to get on the forums so that they can survive. It’s another domestic/economic idea that may or may not work. But we’ll never know unless we try. This will not replace current gifting which I outlined in my domestics manifesto


Iain Keers.

This has been my economics manifesto. Congratulations if you managed to read it all. Up next is the Military/Foreign Affairs Manifesto and will include all those juicy bits of detail that you’ve wanted to hear about all week. 😁

Kevy Kev Kev Junior Shabado
Potential Prime Minister