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A global perspective on new world economics.


Introduction

It's interesting to track this game at the international level. The following report is intended to be an impartial overview of the financial status of all countries.

Tools such as egov4you by aVie collect large amounts of data, mostly useful for military analysis. These are also excellent for comparing economies! After some calculations it's possible to measure how well countries are doing economically.

Income Ranking

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Several countries had to excluded, because they lacked regions or a viable workforce(😉:
Albania, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia*, Portugal, Romania, Singapore*, Switzerland, Ukraine.

Money!

The countries are ranked here by estimated tax income. Important: This is not necessarily showing the entire amount of cash going into treasuries each day. The values above show the potential cash generation if every active citizen is assumed to work once a day in that country (giving income tax), and spend their earnings on products in that country (giving VAT).

Actual income into treasuries is probably increased in all countries for at least these reasons:
1 - Citizens from other countries may be working in that country for a nice wage (+ income tax) and buying cheap products (+ VAT) so large countries will be boosted by a (relatively small) number of visitors.
2 - Smaller countries have traditionally been inflated (months or years ago), by the so-called market bot, adding currency into the game by buying products from markets that are listed below a threshold price in small countries (+ VAT). However, the threshold prices were lowered to phase out this activity.
3 - Citizens might pay 20 gold for a market licence in order to sell in another market (+ import tax and VAT for that country), although not likely.
4 - Citizens may on average spend more than they earn from wages. This includes gold medals and gold buyers who then buy weapons (+ VAT). This effect is mitigated if the bulk of that gold disappearing in training/upgrades/store.

These effects are very hard to measure accurately, and are assumed fairly negligible to the overall picture. Governments understandably don't give out all the information to know for sure.

On the flip side, commune activity avoids income tax and VAT, so if some countries are using a lot of MU communes (which is not a bad thing) they may receive less tax income than estimated.

Inaccuracies aside, Poland clearly has maximum income potential, and manages to keep a high Worker Rating (see below) and constant region bonuses using overwhelming population numbers to hold numerous small countries.

I previously thought expanding countries always face resistance, then I saw Argentina at #2 exploiting Chile's original regions without any resistance. Chile migrated to Australia, as it is easier for them to occupy an 8-times smaller country than contest their homelands.

Worker Happiness

The Worker Rating is a score (scaled 1-100) calculated based on how affordable products in the local market are, if citizens are working locally, using for example the price of Q7 weapons.

The worker rating will be high if local citizens are not overly taxed and have abundant companies, resources and products. If the worker rating is low, workers will be more tempted to go overseas to work and spend, affecting tax earnings.



Populations

Active citizens are defined here as the number of accounts which clicked the fight button at least once that day (egov4you).

Region data were taken from egov4you and checked manually, as they are in a state of flux.

The Population Density = the number of active citizens divided by the number of regions.

High density may indicate the country is ready for expansion, or has recently been attacked and lost regions.

Low density may indicate a vulnerability to PTO, as is the critical concern at the moment in eUSA. Low density could also indicate some countries which are geographically sheltered from threats.

And finally on that note, a reminder to vote TODAY for a party that isn't the obviously malicious PTO vehicle.