Election results the world over
Day 778, 13:49
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by Necrosis
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Poles
Warning, this is a very long article. I will preface it with boobs, to get your attention and votes
Introduction
Voter numbers are a good way to gauge a countries active population. The total population number is all very well and good, but it includes dead and dying citizens, and thus is a bad measure of anything really. Presidential elections are a good chance to see voter numbers, even more so in this post citizenship world. Takeovers are fewer and smaller than before, and thus the confounding effects of them on numbers is lessened, which results in a better picture.
The aging Jewitt hits a few problems when attempting to vote
I’m also a fan of using congressional elections for this, however this month’s congressional elections fell on Christmas day for many people in eRepublik, which would’ve obviously had an effect on voter turnout. While Orthodox Christmas is tomorrow for countries that celebrate it (Serbia, Greece and Russia are the main ones as far as I am aware), this would have a limited effect; it would be similar to the 23rd of December for us.
Firstly, I collected this month’s, last month’s, and November’s voter numbers for several large countries, and a few more that I thought looked interesting on the way. This means that many small countries have been left out; apologies for this, but there are only so many numbers my brain can take before having a meltdown. Maybe some other time.
The table
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The green indicates a large increase, whereas the blue indicates a significant decrease. To avoid myself much stress (I despise statistics), I didn’t put them through any statistical test, its just a rough guess based on the numbers in front of me.
First of all, a look at the countries that didn’t move much.
Australia; only three votes difference across the three elections, obviously the tiny difference in the January elections is insignificant, and therefore can be considered as almost the same. Coming out as a 0.49% change, this is obviously pointless.
Canada; they lost around 100 votes over the last 2 months. I an going to assume that this is due in part due to them having got all their regions back, and thus player retention having dropped somewhat. 1221 votes is still a reasonable number, and their military is most excellent.
Bill and Ted approve of Canada’s military
France; they have seen an 8% drop in voter numbers. This is most likely related to their ongoing conflict with Spain, which they are losing in true French fashion. This has probably affected new players signing up to help France, and thus with the constant flood of older players leaving that this game sees, an overall drop is observed.
Hungary; almost no change over the last few months. Still a massive 4000+ votes each time. A huge country which just keeps on going. Impressive numbers here, even more impressive continuation of the numbers.
Indonesia: Once a great power in the game, they are not the strong nation that they once were. With a declining population, they do have a large contingent of older players. They have seen a rise of several percent in the last 2 months, due in no small part to the war with Malaysia.
Iran: A fairly constant number, despite RL problems within the country relating to censorship and the like. Even the loss of all their captured regions hasn’t really put much of a dent in their numbers.
Good thing elections are not this heated in eRepublik.
United Kingdom: a country that fluctuates between 13XX and 15XX ever since the summer, the results for this country are as boring as being a resident of it. Much like with its foreign policy, the UK cannot seem to decide what to stick with.
You’ve seen the rest, now see the best
Now for the countries that have had a decent increase in voting population, and thus we can assume fighting population.
Brazil: Their population doubled for a while due to advertising, but this has not had a significant effect on their voting numbers, only around 200 extra votes due to this. Appears to be similar to France’s babyboom in the summer which didn’t stick at all. However a 28% increase is nothing to be sniffed at. With their abundant natural raw materials, even a few hundred extra workers will be of great use in the coming months as they skill up and create more money for the Brazilian economy.
Brazil’s greatest export is of course their football teams and players.
Croatia: An increase of over 35% is a great thing, even greater when you start with a voting population of over 2,000. Sitting comfortably over the 3,000, they are re inforcing their position as a very powerful nation. An increase based on real life nationalism, and as a response to Serbian increases due to the same, the Croatian’s constant need to defend their homeland against invasion has been a significant boon to their player retention and recruitment.
Greece: Another country with about a 35% increase in voters, Greece has been in constant war with Turkey for as long time now, following a failed attempt to wipe Turkey from the map with their Romanian allies.
Another population boom based on real life tensions, the Greece - Turkey conflict within eRepublik dates all the way back to last summer, when turkey wiped Greece from the map. With help from ATLANTIS, their regions were freed, and they have been in a state of almost constant war with Turkey ever since. Much like in Brazil, the new players will help feed their iron industry, and thus increase the Greek’s tax income to a reasonable degree.
Greece is a country with an impressive history in real life, as King Leonidas explains.
Poland: oh my God, wow. That is all I have to say on this. From a very respectable 3,485 votes in November, to over 9000 votes this month.
I’m sorry, but this picture had to be included after seeing the voter numbers.
A babyboom which has had not an inconsiderable amount of controversy, (accusation and retort), the Polish have been able to keep their new players interested in the game by invading Germany They are currently the largest country in the game for all measures of activity, total population, all that jazz. Importantly, it appears to be sticking. Watching Polish wars, you will see a plethora of 6-7 damage hits; the babies are getting their voices heard on the battlefield. Even today, they are gaining over 1,000 citizens weeks after the main spurt which saw over 10,000 players join the country in a day.
Like I said originally, wow.
Romania: Invaded by Hungary this month caused a player influx to the country, seeing voter numbers rise by about 500 on the previous month. A good effort on the part of Romania. The temporary loss of Transylvania to Hungary can’t have hurt this either. Currently under attack once more after a brief hiatus, Romania will hope to capitalise on this, and return to their former glory. One thing to remember when considering Romania’s numbers is that many of their army have Belgian and other citizenships.
Vampire cat is more threatening than Twilight vampires. (The relation to this is that vampires are said to be from Transylvania.)
Serbia: Serbs are crazy. No, really, they are, they say so themselves. In their desire to remove Croatia from the map, player numbers swelled , and then levelled off again. Sat at above 5,000 voters, they are a world power of great strength, who have no problem going up against a mountain of MPPs over and over in the hope of achieving their goal. They’ve been quiet recently, expect something big soon.
Spain: increase of over 500, invading France can’t have hurt this in the slightest. Everyone wants to attack France, its part of the genetic code carried by all humans. Even the French, why do you think they riot so much?
[Countries on the decline
Not all countries can win unfortunately. Some must lose. There seems to be few large countries in this position, which isn’t interesting or surprising in the slightest.
Mexico: I stumbled on this while looking at their numbers out of curiosity, but their have seen a 100 voter drop in the last month, down 17% from 2 months before. Sat at 350 voters, Mexico, with its complete lack of anything interesting will be having problems with player retention, and all that sort of thing. Boring place.
Have the Mexicans stopped using their time for eRepublik, and instead focused on huge sombreros?
Russia: They have lost over 1,000 votes since November, a massive drop of nearly 30%. I personally think this has something to do with the large amount of banned players in Russia; many high profile people have been banned for multi accounts, or even exploiting the game. Such things will have had an impact. Combine that with the lack of real war in Russia (the war with the USA in the summer was great for them), and players get bored, quit.
Sweden: Another country I looked at out of curiosity, wondering how the pig disgusting Swedes were getting on, and noticed a 100 drop in votes between December. They have been a small country since beta, and finally seem to be shrinking. Anecdotal evidence suggests older players leaving in a faster rate than before, this may be part of the cause.
United States: 500 voter drop, about 11% change in the negative. Still sat at a very awesome 4,000+ votes, but if current trends continue, this will be below the 4,000 mark by the next elections. I can’t honestly put my finger on exactly why this is. The USA has had plenty of wars and stuff like that to keep them occupied, hasn’t had any real problems with anything, other than the occasional battle loss and strategic error. A few citizens were involved in anti-PTO efforts on election day, but nowhere near enough to see the drop that the numbers show. The next elections will be interesting.
Right about here is where I run out of awesome pictures to use to get you to keep reading
Conclusion
Several conclusions can be drawn from this article; voter numbers do not universally rise or fall, I write articles that are too long, and next month will be pretty interesting in a few countries.
Necrosis
Warning, this is a very long article. I will preface it with boobs, to get your attention and votes
Introduction
Voter numbers are a good way to gauge a countries active population. The total population number is all very well and good, but it includes dead and dying citizens, and thus is a bad measure of anything really. Presidential elections are a good chance to see voter numbers, even more so in this post citizenship world. Takeovers are fewer and smaller than before, and thus the confounding effects of them on numbers is lessened, which results in a better picture.
The aging Jewitt hits a few problems when attempting to vote
I’m also a fan of using congressional elections for this, however this month’s congressional elections fell on Christmas day for many people in eRepublik, which would’ve obviously had an effect on voter turnout. While Orthodox Christmas is tomorrow for countries that celebrate it (Serbia, Greece and Russia are the main ones as far as I am aware), this would have a limited effect; it would be similar to the 23rd of December for us.
Firstly, I collected this month’s, last month’s, and November’s voter numbers for several large countries, and a few more that I thought looked interesting on the way. This means that many small countries have been left out; apologies for this, but there are only so many numbers my brain can take before having a meltdown. Maybe some other time.
The table
Click on the image to make it larger
The green indicates a large increase, whereas the blue indicates a significant decrease. To avoid myself much stress (I despise statistics), I didn’t put them through any statistical test, its just a rough guess based on the numbers in front of me.
First of all, a look at the countries that didn’t move much.
Australia; only three votes difference across the three elections, obviously the tiny difference in the January elections is insignificant, and therefore can be considered as almost the same. Coming out as a 0.49% change, this is obviously pointless.
Canada; they lost around 100 votes over the last 2 months. I an going to assume that this is due in part due to them having got all their regions back, and thus player retention having dropped somewhat. 1221 votes is still a reasonable number, and their military is most excellent.
Bill and Ted approve of Canada’s military
France; they have seen an 8% drop in voter numbers. This is most likely related to their ongoing conflict with Spain, which they are losing in true French fashion. This has probably affected new players signing up to help France, and thus with the constant flood of older players leaving that this game sees, an overall drop is observed.
Hungary; almost no change over the last few months. Still a massive 4000+ votes each time. A huge country which just keeps on going. Impressive numbers here, even more impressive continuation of the numbers.
Indonesia: Once a great power in the game, they are not the strong nation that they once were. With a declining population, they do have a large contingent of older players. They have seen a rise of several percent in the last 2 months, due in no small part to the war with Malaysia.
Iran: A fairly constant number, despite RL problems within the country relating to censorship and the like. Even the loss of all their captured regions hasn’t really put much of a dent in their numbers.
Good thing elections are not this heated in eRepublik.
United Kingdom: a country that fluctuates between 13XX and 15XX ever since the summer, the results for this country are as boring as being a resident of it. Much like with its foreign policy, the UK cannot seem to decide what to stick with.
You’ve seen the rest, now see the best
Now for the countries that have had a decent increase in voting population, and thus we can assume fighting population.
Brazil: Their population doubled for a while due to advertising, but this has not had a significant effect on their voting numbers, only around 200 extra votes due to this. Appears to be similar to France’s babyboom in the summer which didn’t stick at all. However a 28% increase is nothing to be sniffed at. With their abundant natural raw materials, even a few hundred extra workers will be of great use in the coming months as they skill up and create more money for the Brazilian economy.
Brazil’s greatest export is of course their football teams and players.
Croatia: An increase of over 35% is a great thing, even greater when you start with a voting population of over 2,000. Sitting comfortably over the 3,000, they are re inforcing their position as a very powerful nation. An increase based on real life nationalism, and as a response to Serbian increases due to the same, the Croatian’s constant need to defend their homeland against invasion has been a significant boon to their player retention and recruitment.
Greece: Another country with about a 35% increase in voters, Greece has been in constant war with Turkey for as long time now, following a failed attempt to wipe Turkey from the map with their Romanian allies.
Another population boom based on real life tensions, the Greece - Turkey conflict within eRepublik dates all the way back to last summer, when turkey wiped Greece from the map. With help from ATLANTIS, their regions were freed, and they have been in a state of almost constant war with Turkey ever since. Much like in Brazil, the new players will help feed their iron industry, and thus increase the Greek’s tax income to a reasonable degree.
Greece is a country with an impressive history in real life, as King Leonidas explains.
Poland: oh my God, wow. That is all I have to say on this. From a very respectable 3,485 votes in November, to over 9000 votes this month.
I’m sorry, but this picture had to be included after seeing the voter numbers.
A babyboom which has had not an inconsiderable amount of controversy, (accusation and retort), the Polish have been able to keep their new players interested in the game by invading Germany They are currently the largest country in the game for all measures of activity, total population, all that jazz. Importantly, it appears to be sticking. Watching Polish wars, you will see a plethora of 6-7 damage hits; the babies are getting their voices heard on the battlefield. Even today, they are gaining over 1,000 citizens weeks after the main spurt which saw over 10,000 players join the country in a day.
Like I said originally, wow.
Romania: Invaded by Hungary this month caused a player influx to the country, seeing voter numbers rise by about 500 on the previous month. A good effort on the part of Romania. The temporary loss of Transylvania to Hungary can’t have hurt this either. Currently under attack once more after a brief hiatus, Romania will hope to capitalise on this, and return to their former glory. One thing to remember when considering Romania’s numbers is that many of their army have Belgian and other citizenships.
Vampire cat is more threatening than Twilight vampires. (The relation to this is that vampires are said to be from Transylvania.)
Serbia: Serbs are crazy. No, really, they are, they say so themselves. In their desire to remove Croatia from the map, player numbers swelled , and then levelled off again. Sat at above 5,000 voters, they are a world power of great strength, who have no problem going up against a mountain of MPPs over and over in the hope of achieving their goal. They’ve been quiet recently, expect something big soon.
Spain: increase of over 500, invading France can’t have hurt this in the slightest. Everyone wants to attack France, its part of the genetic code carried by all humans. Even the French, why do you think they riot so much?
[Countries on the decline
Not all countries can win unfortunately. Some must lose. There seems to be few large countries in this position, which isn’t interesting or surprising in the slightest.
Mexico: I stumbled on this while looking at their numbers out of curiosity, but their have seen a 100 voter drop in the last month, down 17% from 2 months before. Sat at 350 voters, Mexico, with its complete lack of anything interesting will be having problems with player retention, and all that sort of thing. Boring place.
Have the Mexicans stopped using their time for eRepublik, and instead focused on huge sombreros?
Russia: They have lost over 1,000 votes since November, a massive drop of nearly 30%. I personally think this has something to do with the large amount of banned players in Russia; many high profile people have been banned for multi accounts, or even exploiting the game. Such things will have had an impact. Combine that with the lack of real war in Russia (the war with the USA in the summer was great for them), and players get bored, quit.
Sweden: Another country I looked at out of curiosity, wondering how the pig disgusting Swedes were getting on, and noticed a 100 drop in votes between December. They have been a small country since beta, and finally seem to be shrinking. Anecdotal evidence suggests older players leaving in a faster rate than before, this may be part of the cause.
United States: 500 voter drop, about 11% change in the negative. Still sat at a very awesome 4,000+ votes, but if current trends continue, this will be below the 4,000 mark by the next elections. I can’t honestly put my finger on exactly why this is. The USA has had plenty of wars and stuff like that to keep them occupied, hasn’t had any real problems with anything, other than the occasional battle loss and strategic error. A few citizens were involved in anti-PTO efforts on election day, but nowhere near enough to see the drop that the numbers show. The next elections will be interesting.
Right about here is where I run out of awesome pictures to use to get you to keep reading
Conclusion
Several conclusions can be drawn from this article; voter numbers do not universally rise or fall, I write articles that are too long, and next month will be pretty interesting in a few countries.
Necrosis
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You are certainly not great.
1st?
Good stuff.
Interesting article as always.
lol @ Sweden.
Poor article from a double traitor.
It is definitely a long article, but you know how to get attention. 🙂
'Everyone wants to attack France, its part of the genetic code carried by all humans. Even the French, why do you think they riot so much?' 😛
Serbs are crazy, really they are. 😃
Serbs are crazy, really they are
we no need to say, our actions says for itself 🙂
Why you didn't mentioned eLatvia and eNorway?
Serbs ARE crazy 🙂
Longcat is loooooooong
you're a very entertaining and at least an interesting individual
If I was a pig-disgusting Swede, I'd invade Finland and advertise on Swedish websites.
Still - a declining number of pigs is good for the rest of us.
Excellent article. USA numbers should be dropping because of their totally incompetent economic policy. People are leaving eUSA to other places in game and I see more Americans abroad.
I never got past the boobs
voted
You so sexy.
"Spain: increase of over 500, invading France can’t have hurt this in the slightest. Everyone wants to attack France, its part of the genetic code carried by all humans."
LOL XD
I like it.
Voted.
lol voted