Analyzing the 3 New Countries

Day 1,156, 17:50 • Published in USA USA • by Jelly9473

Before getting to the real article:

This morning I woke up to a few congratulation messages, and a new alert telling me that I had received a Media Mogul Medal 😃

I went to sleep last night with about 960-970 subs, and apparently in the middle of the night a "chain" shout was started by CRoy, and later continued by others, encouraging people to subscribe to my paper so that I may get the medal I've sought after for so long.

I'd like to quickly thank all of my subscribers, voters and supporters who have helped me reach this goal. I don't want to carry on about nothing for too long..My next article will be about how I got my Media Mogul Medal..and why it was so important to me.

Anyway...


About 4 months ago (Day 1044) wrote an article about the last 6 countries that were introduced, you can find that HERE.

This article will be very similar, except this time I'll be taking a look at the 3 new countries added on today, day 1,156.

These countries are: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and United Arab Emirates

Just like last time I'll be looking at this from strictly a game mechanics view point and will discuss the countries resources, borders and the effects they may have on their neighbors...or vice versa.

I'll start off with Saudi Arabia



Saudi Arabia will have 13 regions, the most out of any of the recent countries. This update, or last.

It will have the resources of Oil (4), Grain (3), Saltpeter (2) and Aluminum (2) For economic purposes it would make sense for Saudi Arabia to begin looking for ways to gain Iron so that it can have a strong weapons market. In order to gain the full bonus it will also need Rubber.

Altogether Saudi Arabia will border Egypt, Israel, United Arab Emirates, and Iran.

The only one of those countries who does not currently have Iron is Israel. It would be possible to look for a way of expanding to gain Iron from any of those 3 neighbors. However, NONE of its neighbors currently has a Grain resource, while Saudi Arabia has 3.

Because Saudi Arabia borders both Israel (Pro-EDEN) and Iran (Pro-PH😵 I don't believe the country will truly be safe, no matter what direction it takes..unless it gets a massive baby boom.
Egypt



Egypt will have 6 regions, with the resources of Fruits (3), Cattle (1), Iron (1) and Oil(1)

It may possibly be the most "popular" new country simply because of how well known it is in RL..however, that may not be a good thing for this new country.

Egypt will border Israel, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey. It is very likely that Egypt will be thrown into the Greece-Turkey conflict, and ultimately be forced to pick a side, or be conquered with little defense :/

I believe that Turkey will have its eye on Egypt from early on because while Turkey lacks Iron, Egypt has it. By conquering Egypt Turkey would also gain Oil. Saudi Arabia may also be interested in Egypt as well because of its need for Iron.

For Egypt to survive it will need to make sure it has strong allies and a strong diplomatic leader who can ensure that it will receive support if Greece, or Turkey look to gather some of its resources.
United Arab Emirates (U.A.E)



U.A.E will have 7 regions, with the resources of Fish (3), Saltpeter (2), Iron (1) and Oil (1).

It will border Saudi Arabia and Iran.

U.A.E imo is the "safest" new country. I'm not saying it will have an easier time surviving than the other countries...because, lets face it. PTO's are now a part of the game 🙁

I say it is the safest because Iran has the same resources of U.A.E, and the only resource that U.A.E has that Saudi Arabia does not is Fish. It would be possible for the two countries to negotiate a trade where in U.A.E recieves Aluminum (Saudi Arabia has 2) and Saudi Arabia receives Fish (U.A.E has 3).

U.A.E may not have much to fear from its neighbors, only because it unfortunately does not have much to offer resource wise that they may need.

Because U.A.E only borders Iran and Saudi Arabia for defense purposes it would make sense for U.A.E to become close friends Iran who would be able to provide tactical support if a country does make an advance at U.A.E.
The last time new countries were added I went 4/6 in predicting which alliance the new countries would lean towards. I only got wrong Belarus (I predicted PHX, it "went" EDEN) and New Zealand (I predicted EDEN, it "went" PH😵

And before anyone says anything, I'm aware both Belarus and NZ suffered some effects of a PTO.

This time I will make a guess that Saudi Arabia will go pro-PHX countries, and Egypt Pro-EDEN countries based on who they border and what their neighbors may be interested in.
Once again, it's time for....


Welcome back to Paul's Picture Palace! It is I, Paul, and Yes, I have captured a section of Jelly's excellent newspaper to publish some pictures at least semi related to the topic,

Today's Topic,

The Middle East

First off, I know the Middle East has a lot of sand and camels and stuff, still, we (as in me) at P Cubed weren't quite sure who or what a camel was, so we google searched it and apparently Camels are some sort of alcohol distributor, anyway here is what we got:


Yes, your teachers lied to you


Next, as Egypt is among one of the new countries, now besides Sphinx's and stuff, there isn't much to Egypt besides semi-boring cartoons, right? right? Maybe I should have paid attention in History Class, anyway, here is my idea about what went down in Egypt:



Some kind of chiropractor eh?

That's all, and see you next time!