Operational Pause Lifted; PEACE Poised to Resume Offensive

Day 622, 01:09 • Published in Hungary Russia • by Pilatus Clooney

Day 622 @ 0100 eRepublik Time

Comrades,

On day 620, PEACE commanders declared an operational pause in the campaign against the USA. Although multiple blocking attacks were put in place by various PEACE member states (to prevent the USA from seizing the initiative), PEACE tanks and elite combat units were largely held back in reserve. The reasons given for the pause were threefol😛 (1) to allow the United States time to mull through the terms of her surrender; (2) to allow for logistical consolidation prior to the subsequent phase of the war; and (3) to further neutralise Canada.

Officials at PEACE Headquarters have informed us moments ago that the logistics consolidation has since been completed and the operational pause will be lifted in the early hours of day 622. The resumption of offensive operations is now imminent and H-hour has been set. In order not to compromise actual PEACE operations, this paper cannot disclose the specific details of the planned actions, save to say that it would entail 3, and up to 4, major offensives across multiple theatre of operations.

In other news, we saw the return of Georgia to the USA through a resistance war yesterday. Our source in the Portuguese Presidential Office has confirmed that Portuguese soldiers were ordered to fight for the resistance, the objective being to return Georgia to the USA so as to prevent Spain from attacking through Galicia and to obtain a "free war" against Portugal.

With that we turn our attention back to the American economy. The situation there is growing bleaker by the day. The average pre-tax salary of an American worker has, for the first time in decades, fallen below the $8.00 mark to $7.88 and continues to trend lower. Be that as may be, the actual take-home pay is even considerable less given that income in the USA is taxed at between 20 – 25%. In contrast, the average pre-tax wage of a worker in developed PEACE nations such as Indonesia and Hungary is IDR11.06 and HUF11.30 respectively. Income is taxed at an average rate of 10% in the latter countries.

To put things into perspective, the price of Q1 food in the 3 countries is $1.12, IDR0.93 and HUF1.13 respectively, while the price of a Q1 weapon is $8.02, IDR5.84 and HUF5.19 respectively. Unsurprisingly, a US-based economist succinctly summed up the current situation in the following words: “Food and weapons cost more in the USA but the American worker earns significantly less after taxes. The war is lost.”

Over at the commodities front, the state of Washington (Canada; high grain) is poised to fall in the face of a withering Hungarian assault. As a number of American Q2 grain companies are based in that region, the price of Q2 grain is expected to spike once that state falls. “I’m looking at $1.30 or more by the end of the day for Q2 food”, said a concerned trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Prices of selected items in USA (Days 616 - 622)
Q1 grain 0.40 0.45 0.59 1.40 1.00 0.99 1.01
Q2 grain

0.88 1.05 1.14 1.20
Q1 wood 0.38 0.38 0.49 0.47 0.42 0.42 0.47
Q1 oil 0.30 0.30 0.35 0.32 0.29 0.33 0.35
Q1 food 1.19 1.20 1.11 1.09 1.12 1.09 1.12