eCanadurr - What is it good for?

Day 2,367, 21:56 • Published in USA USA • by Talostastic

TL😉R Here’s a handy chart that tells part of the story I’m about to tell.


It has been a very long 3 months. On Day 2274, the eUS proposed an NE against our neighbors to the North, and since then it has been a back-and-forth battle of taking and retaking regions from eCanada.

Why? The conspiracy theories have their own explanations. The Why is simple. eCanada has been, for a very long time, a Foreign Affairs nightmare for the eUSA. They stepped it up by opening an MPP with Serbia, eUSA’s oldest enemy. Any other explanation for this war is half-truth or entirely made up.



Between Day 2274 and today, the landscape has changed. eCanada has all but gone broke, subsidising their MPP’s with donations of private funds or from other countries. Their war efforts and CO’s, subsidised by private citizens and by the personal pocketbook of DMV. I don’t have exact figures on what eCanada has spent, but thanks to Gnilraps, we know about how much the eUSA has spent. But I’ll get back to that in a moment.

At the time of writing this, the oldest information eGov had available was ~10 days after this war started, from day 2284. On that day, the population of eCanada stood at 764, 303 (39.6% fighters) of which were cataloged as fighters. eUSA weighed in with 2658 citizens and 1068 fighters (40.4% fighters). With this initial phase of the invasion moving forward, an interesting change in population trend emerges. (SEE CHART)



Operation Grey Cup began on Day 2304. Up to this point, both the eUSA and eCanada had definitely benefitted from this confrontation. eCanada gained 33 players and boosted their fighting population by 43. The eUSA gained 336 players, but lost 6 fighters. Then, the funding kicked in.

Since the beginning of Grey Cup, both countries have lost in terms of population and fighters. eCanada has suffered a loss of 185 citizens (or nearly a quarter of their population), with 60 fighters gone (give or take 20😵. The eUSA has suffered terribly on the population loss front, with our numbers a whole 4 citizens below on total population (0.015😵, and down 102 fighters (9.5😵. The lost fighters trend is below the World-Wide totals, showing that this is a slower loss than many other countries, and half of what eCanada has lost.

With Grey Cup, eCanada has been without a Congress twice. In terms of cost, this has taken directly from the pockets of eCanadian citizens 400 gold, and gained the citizens of the eUSA 95 gold (Congress medals). eCanada has been unable to remove any money from their Country Treasury, disrupting any function that requires cash outside of their Treasury. Since tax figures are much harder to track, I had to pull a rough estimate based on available information. The 6 day average when eCanada was wiped brought 1538 cc per day into the American coffers, and cost eCanada at least 3x that much, since they reduced their Work Tax from 3% to 1% when the war began taking (an estimated) 200k CC total out of eCanada’s coffers from tax collection alone.



On the fiscal aspect of this alone, the eUSA has taken about 280k CC away from the eCanadian government and it’s citizens. This is from lost Congress and tax revenue alone, it does not include the money spent on resistance wars and CO’s by the eCanadians. To those who wish to combat this with “Oh lol it cost you hamburgers 3 million to take 280k CC away from us”, that would be incorrect. Per Gnil’s latest article, yes, the eUS Government spent that money, but a vast majority of it went straight back into the pockets of the eUS citizens. The money spent by the eCanadian government either went to Plato in the form of 10k per RW, or outside of the country via open Combat Orders. Most of our money stayed on our soil, a lot of eCanadian money went off into the ether forever.

Given all of this information, should the war with eCanada continue? Absolutely. They still maintain their Serbian MPP, are funding the entirety of their war effort through private contributions and DMV’s pocket, and sure, they’re on the push back currently, but this is the 3rd “liberation” of eCanada that’s occurred, and it will be once again reclaimed. Determination has to be reset at regular intervals to keep long term occupation viable, and eCanada has been spending their money hand-over-fist to assist us with that (Thanks bro’s!).



The only downside for the eUSA is battle-weariness. Most people are sick of the perpetual war, and would be sick of it no matter which country we were involved with. Funny thing about battle weariness, within a week of some sort of NAP with eCanada, many of the people complaining about the perpetual war cycle will be chomping at the bit for another campaign. War is the only real aspect of this game, it affects every other module, (both economy AND political!), and the numbers bear it out.

This war with eCanada has benefited the eUSA. And it should continue. Walking away without any long-term benefit to the States would be an utter and complete waste of everyone’s time.


Sources ;
eUSA Tracking on eGov
eCanada Tracking on eGov
Tax income tracking



Yours,

Talostastic

PS - It seems some people have confused this with some sort of government propaganda piece. It's not. It's just one man's opinion that they don't like, so it's written off as some shady state-sponsored attempt to bolster a population. Literally couldn't be further from the truth, but, whatever punches your clown, Nancy.