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Perhaps this weeks theme is more relevant to eUK than any other theme I’ve used; after all, for all its aspirations as a political simulator, you could make a good argument that the war aspect of eRepublik is by far the greatest aspect of it.

Theme: Army and State



"Cease quoting laws to those of us with swords at our sides"

- Gnaeus Pompey Magnus


"Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state"

- Voltaire, (under the Hohenzollern dynasty, the army achieved such pre-eminence in Prussian society that something like 75% of all state expenditure was on the military, and despite being a smaller country fielded one of the biggest European armies)


"The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws. "

- Niccolò Machiavelli


"Be harmonious, enrich the soldiers, scorn all other men"

- Septimius Severus, (the deathbed advice of a Roman Emperor to his two sons on how to rule the empire; given that one had the other brutally murdered in front of their mother at a peace conference, tripled the soldiers’ pay and led a life of cruelty and debauchery, only 66% of that advice was taken)


“This is not martial law, only another path towards democracy.”

-Pervez Musharraf, (Pakistani general, upon seizing power in a military coup d’etat)