[Analysis] Dictator Module and What's Next? [EN]

Day 2,656, 12:18 • Published in Croatia Indonesia • by DevaJr
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Day 2,656 Karnataka, eCroatia


Hello all of my friends, especially my Croatian friends 🙂
Today i want to share what i have been thinking about the dictator module and what come next. I know its late but i think it's worth enough :3



1. Erepublik Tax Haven
All of us now are in difficult time because so many rich people use tax haven countries to hide their actual income and do tax fraud. So why? In this new module, the dictator have power to control the money, citizen's money that are collected by government. His/her power can't be limited by congress and have full ten days to exploit the money. With this power the dictator can share their corruption to his/her groups. Sound terrible right? For big countries like Serbia and Poland, if a dictator assume the power they will face many and strong rebellions that will reduce their benefit as dictator, especially if the foreign dictator assume the power. So how about the small countries?

They will be the target of PTO-coup movements. Countries like South Africa and Thailand have been PTOed by some MUs. So whats new?

All of us know that making multies is still favorite practice to funding war without RL money. PTOed countries like south africa and thailand are serious PTO. They bulit a new 'nations' and 'state'. But how about small countries like philipines, UAE, north korea, slovakia, denmark, etc? These countries will become the erepublik tax haven coutries.

Foreign MUs will do coup and assume power. The main country that support the coup will make sure the coup-ed country have all of their regions or deleted by them.

These are two scenarios:
A. The coup-ed country have all regions
Multies will be made with coup-ed country citizenship. Then they set tax as high as possible (especially VAT Tax). Transactions will be done via market. Players from the Coup MU will sell commodities to extract money from multies. The money will go to coutry's treasury. Then the Gov will distribute the money as "logistics". This scenario will be done if the coup-ed countries don't have border with the main country and have strategic positions or the Coup movement do coup for their own glories. For example South Africa, New Zealand, Singapore, etc.

B. The coup-ed country have no regions
Same, they make multies and set the tax as high as possible. The money will go directly to the main country. this scenario will be done if the coup-ed country have direct border with the main country and have vulnerable positions. and also to keep the dictator in Power. For example Slovakia, Denmark, North Korea, etc.

The money from multies will be clean because the money are directly collected by government. This is a legal money laundering.

It's easier to do Coup than do PTO. Because in one action they will get all access to treasury. no need for congress or voting in elections. the Dictator can control the citizen flow from outside to strengthen their position and I think it's possible for one country become a base from more than one MU. This kind of situation is really a Tax Haven



2. Focus on Coup than Expand
We have seen in one week, Serbia the strongest country in Erepublik has faced two coup attempt. These coups had been organized by foreign MU led by a Legendary Chilean, Trico. so?

okey first i want to say that i'm neutral, taking serbia just as for sample.

With only 200.000 CC to do coup, every countries will become a very easy target of coup from foreign or domestic MUs. because 200.000 CC is very easy to collect, especially against country with many enemies. For example is Serbia (have enemies from Chileans in South America to Terrorists in Greece).

because of the cost are cheap, coup will be held regularly and will make the country are more focus to stop coup than expand outside their borders. this is a time bomb. players will be bored to fight coup from one to another. And also players will think its easier to do coup than fight via direct WAR. so i advice the cost to do coup is flexible depend on how strong the country and how many the regions they have.

Use Country Power to calculate the cost.
in eRepublik we use country power to define which country is a hegemony or not. i propose, in a country with more Country Power need more money to do Coup. Why? it's simple. in RL it's easy to do coup in weak countries like South Sudan or Somalia (no offense) than to do Coup in strong countries like United States or China. So i think it's fair to do coup in a strong country is more expensive than the weak one. and also it's easier to do coup in a country with two regions than a country with eleven regions.

I don't want to see Greece can be coup-ed with same price when You coup North Korea

It'll be more epic, tragic, and rude if I Coup Brazil when they have only one region left

I think the Country Power is enough as variable because the Country Power are calculated with regions, damages, and players as variables.



Okey these are what i have been thinking when i heard about Dictator module. I love this module but i think it need updates. I ask Plato to make Civil War module too 😃 Oh ya all of you are free to agree or disagree. and also i'm waiting for readers' advices, clarifications, or anything can make this article better. thank you for reading, Don't Forget to Vote, Comment, Shout, and Endorse 😃




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