The Economics of the French Counterattack

Day 390, 17:02 • Published in USA Canada • by Dillan Stone

A little economic analysis of the war:


In France, Q1 weapons go for about 40 FRF. Q5s go for 245 FRF.

A Level 4 skilled worker can earn 13 FRF per day.


In the USA, Q1 weapons are selling for 17 USD, Q5s for 136.

A level 4 worker earns 18.50 USD.



To put this in currency-neutral terms, the French have to work three days to afford one Q1 gun. An American can afford a Q1 gun per day, with almost enough left over to buy a unit of Q1 food. A Frenchman who wants to fight at Q5 needs to spend nearly 20 days wages - the American is looking at about 8 days pay.



Some other countries of relevance: Canadians can earn 10.7 CAD. Their guns go for 15 (Q1) and 130 (Q5) - between 1 1/2 days and 12 days pay. In the UK, workers can earn 8.50. Guns cost a mere 4.4 (Q1) to 56 (Q5) - between 1/2 days pay and 7 days pay.

The Turks pay between 12.5 and 274.5 for their guns. They can earn 28.50, although admittedly they pay about 50% tax between working and buying, so that skews things quite a bit. The Italians pay 11.50 to 66.30, and earn 9.50.

Worldwide, gun prices range roughly between a day's labor for Q1 to a week's labor for Q5. That's approximate, but it fits a wide variety of nations.

The French are paying triple.

Why would this be?

There are two possibilities:

1) Foreign arms manufacturers, watching the FRF plummet compared to gold, demand higher prices (to sell for the same equivalent in gold) - and French wages haven't caught up to the difference yet.

2) Demand for weapons is MUCH higher among the French than it is for any other PEACE or ATLANTIS nation. Supply and Demand being the universal law it is, supply of weapons declines (so prices increase) and supply of labor hasn't declined (so wages remain flat)


I suggest it's a bit of both. Sure, the French might not have a lot of tanks, but I suspect the recent counter-attack is, in essence, the entire French nation rising up as a unified force (surely with significant aid from PEACE tanks) because it's THEIR nation. Now, someone explain to me exactly what we were "liberating" the French from?

Basically, folks, if you want to keep France, you're going to have to spend yourself into absolute and total national bankruptcy like the French are doing now. There's no such thing as a free war.

Although I still oppose this war, a little tactical advice; now might be the time for a very large number of Americans to move into Auvergne and/or Poitou-Chartres armed with a moving ticket - particularly those of you who are ravidly pro-war and not strong enough to make a difference militarily. Every person in a region raises the cost of doing battle there, and raises the size of the initial wall, so being a literal meat-shield might be your best (and cheapest) way of making PEACE pay more to liberate those provinces (and thereby ensuring they don't have the gold to proceed to American soil proper.) The moving ticket would, of course, be for moving back to the US mainland after we lose those territories - as it now appears we will.

And one taunt before I go. The USA will likely lose a battle. To France. After the smug remarks some of you have engaged in over the last couple weeks, I consider that rather poetic.