Vive Le Maquis!

Day 1,805, 07:29 • Published in Canada Serbia • by Sally Willis

Resistance is a lot more than merely armed struggle to overthrow the oppressor.

Unless one is very wealthy -- and I am most definitely not -- avoiding paying Polish taxes is not easy. With salaries and MU stipends at levels too low to support even the most economically savvy player's military efforts in any resistance war, we need to think outside the box if we are to thrive and succeed in punishing the Poles for their vaunting world-domination ambitions.

If we are to succeed in over-throwing our transatlantic oppressors we need to fight them on two fronts: the military front and the economic front. I am not discounting the diplomatic and political fronts; those arenas fall outside the spheres of activity relevant to mere plebs like myself.

The military front can only hope to succeed if the grass-roots combatants can afford the hardware to make their efforts count. 25 lame kills to meet a Daily Order is never going to enough. It may well be possible to meet a DO with little more than time, enough food, and pointy sticks, but that won't win no resistance war. Every RW started and lost is a humiliation I, for one, am not prepared to accept.

The Economic Front

This is where eCanadians can flex their muscle. Without a Congress I don't see any obvious options for killer economic moves in regard to taxation. However we can dodge our economic woes if we create a vibrant black market. Of course there are risks in a using a black market, but the game mechanics do not outlaw the principle.

Our tax regime is exceedingly generous and our treasury coffers are nothing to sneer at. With low taxes and a plump treasury, the government does not need our cash. Moreover, the government pocket book is not so fat that it can afford to fill our personal bank accounts with cash.

Our leaders need to look at ways to channel high quality weapons to those who can -- and do -- use them most effectively. I for one would be more than happy to work for Q7 weapons, so long as it was for a preferentially advantageous rate. My current daily salary won't even buy me one Q7 weapon, and yet my virtual labour provides my employer a heck of a lot more than that!

Players with Q7 weapons factories need to set aside personal economic and military growth and ensure that their factories are fully staffed with loyal eCanadians who are each rewarded with a Q7 weapon for each day they work, with a bonus paid every week of 10 more Q7 weapons if the worker has worked every day.

For a pleb like myself, such a scheme would enable me to punch hard two or more times a week without needing to resort to the markets to buy weapons.

I urge our leaders to explore the possibility of implementing/advocating such a scheme in this dark hour in eCanadian history.

I for, for one, am not prepared to go quietly into a night where pierogi and kielbasa is on the menu!