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It's time for an update on the standard of living indices for each country. As previously presented, the affordability of Q5 weapons provides a reasonable indication of a country's economic strength, taking into account industrial infrastructure, market activities, taxation, and worker's wages. Essentially the Q5W index is the number of Q5 weapons a citizen can afford after recieving the highest wage currently offered.

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As you can see most countries have remained stable or slightly increased their Q5W index over the last week or so, as might be expected from normal population growth and new companies.

A significant increase in the index of Spain follows the acquisition of an additional resource bonus, overtaking China and bringing Spain close to Poland. This is remarkably successful considering Spain has only the 7th highest number of citizenships. Another contribiting factor is that Spain has recently implemented a low tax policy, in particular import tax is down from 20% to 10%, which helps to keep market prices competitive and affordable during full scale military campaigns when product demand is at a maximum.

Turkey is down to 2 WRM bonus regions and Canada is down to one WRM bonus region, and as weapon stockpiles are being expended and imports are blocked by high import tax policies, there is simply less production to supply the same amount of demand, and so the Q5W indices have decreased.

Australia has regained two WRM regions via an agreement with occupying country Indonesia, and once again begins the process of rebuilding. Considering their unfortunate history their outlook is better than it has been for a long time, and the Q5W index is climbing. This is likely to reach equilibrium soon however, as demand for weapons is expected to be minimal under their diplomatic agreements.