Stony lands of Finland
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by Urokhtor
There has been a lot going on about why some countries should have new high regions when V2 comes. Well Finland has been pretty tacit about our lack of high region. Currently we have IRL wast forests that produce wood products to all over the world. Still we don't have a high region.
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V2 will deprecate wood resource, but it substitutes wood with stone resource - which Finland is well known of. Our bedrock is one of the oldest in world with vast deposits of different stone qualities. We have also an old tradition of stonecrafting which implies to today's professional stone products like speakers, floor coating and sauna stove stones just to name few.
To keep Finnish stone craftmanship quality high, our schools educate students in many different schools for the fine art of stonecrafting. They get to cut, grind and overlay stone at young age. That's why their experience is highly appreciated around here. Most of the stone is used for infrastructure - just like in V2 will be.
Speakers made of stone. How cool is that?
Unlike some South European countries, our stone bed is hard. We don't have much of limestone, which doesn't withstand hard climate conditions, but we have broad deposits of hard stones such as granite, quartz and marble. They are mined in numerous stone mines all over Finland and then crafted to different stone products that I will now present:
A stone geysir for sauna stove.
Wine cooler made of stone!
Candle holder looking like a stronghold tower.
How could you speak about finnish stone without mentioning sauna?
St. Olaf's castle.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Eduskuntatalo_%28Finnish_Parliament_building%29.JPG[/img]
Finnish congress house with Greek styled pillars
And just to mention, Finland has also a healthy ore mining industry. We produce gold, silver, copper, zinc and many other metals. Kittilä gold mine happens to be the biggest in the whole Europe.
Ore mining.
Kittilä gold mine.
Small bits of Finnish gold.
I want to thank all of my readers. If you felt that this article appealed you and you want to help Finland get it's high stone region, please sign this open letter:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/forum/topic/170793/stony-lands-of-finland/1#post1966165
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Finland is made of stone
Finland ROCKS
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Rock on.
Admins are going to remove stone, like they remove wood, because Finns are wanting those resources.
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You have beautiful craftsmanship when it comes to carving stone. However, you dont have much of it. You can check out this link to see that you dont produce a lot of stone.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/forum/topic/170799/open-letter-for-possibly-multiple-high-stone-in-china-india-and-iran/1" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/forum/topic/[..]ran/1
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Yes.
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Votato! Potato!
But where would it be!???
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Gorgepir, simple production output doesn't always tell about resources, it's also about markets: Finnish wage and taxation levels are high compared to most of the biggest producers, and stone is already produced globally in high quantities, so it can simply be unprofitable to produce here. But real-life economies or political situations should not affect the game.
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Of course it doesn't and I agree with that. I was pointing out if one was to go by global production (notice not the amount sold, the amount produced), there are other countries that are ahead of Finland. However, one could always argue that all of Finlands production comes from one region, which might make that region have high stone.
About the real-life parallels, you are correct. One could always argue that eRepublik is not a perfect replication of real life. In that regard, I say go for titanium!
But good luck in your efforts regardless. I hope you get your high stone and we get ours.
@ gorgepir
You must be a moron since you are only stating the obvious. How Finland, country of 5 million people, could possibly match China in _production_, which has over 1000 million inhabitants ?
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@Hablos I see that you lack proper manners.
If you want to make up a new measure called production divided by number of people, feel free to do so. Make up your own measure and say that you deserve high stone. Feel free to do so. Anyone can play around with statistics to prove what they want. The only true number is the amount of stone produced, the rest are made up numbers.
And just to prove how wrong you are, Portugal has 10 million inhabitants, and 3 million stone is produced. Finland has 5 million and 800 thousand.
So I guess your theory is wrong.
@gorgepir
What type of stone production are you talking about? Crushed stone/aggregate and/or dimension stone?
In the article I quoted, it is total stone (both aggregate and dimension). However it is very hard to track crushed/aggregate by itself, because it depends on land mass and the market, whereas dimension is more related to the type of stones available in the country. But I am quite sure that the admin will not solely base the placements based on real life, so we probably have to wait for some randomness.
@gorgepir
Yeah, I found finding reliable information about aggregates near impossible (which is quite easily explained considering the way they are produced and used). I guess we can count on admins to once more royally fuck it all up when it comes to smaller nations.
What you could argue is that all the stone production comes from one region, which could be true in Finlands case. Then it actually would deserve a high stone region.
In all, the way the admins choose the resources is not so good, it is not fair to use real world examples because they depend on so many unrelated things. By only considering the real world, China, India and the US basically should end up with every resource. I consider that not fair, but I dont know if the admin does.
I genuinely wish you good luck with high stone though. You deserve it.
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Well to be honest one of Finland's strengths in construction aggregate production is the fact that high quality crushed rock for (infrastructure) building needs can be found and produced just about anywhere, since solid granite bedrock is usually very close to the surface. Considering what happened to us when wood resources were distributed I see this as a significant drawback.
And thanks, hopefully you will get one too (which is certainly more likely than us getting it).
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In Finland we stone.
"The only true number is the amount of stone produced, the rest are made up numbers."
The only true measure is the usable reserve.
Less developed economies tend to concentrate more on raw materials, which makes production a bad measure. And in this game, Finland is a less developed economy. 🙁
It's a shame the admins decided to play around with resources and reduce their number. They should rather be increasing them to increase the possibilities in the game.
But thanks for signing. I hope you'll get your high region.
Here's the conclusive proof that we have stone in Finlan😛
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I agree with Kalkun rusakko. Finland has enormous amounts of untapped stone reserves. Why? Because it is as cheap or even cheaper to mine stone from a Chinese quarry and import it here than to mine stone here. It sounds stupid but that's just how things are. Reasonds behind this crazyness are Finnish environmental laws, high wages and taxes vs. extremely lax environmental laws and rediculously low wages in China.
I wish drinkable water was a resourse in V2. It would be cool to have the next world war about this resourse that will in reality be very valuable in 15-20 years and we have tons of it.
And yes, referring to real life for resourses is pretty silly from the erep team, but some one might say that determining country regions and borders from real life is stupid.
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@Mokkero
Admins would most likely use sales of bottle water to determine the water resources.