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Ladies and gentlemen, this is a very special day. After 254 days a man calling himself Calew is stepping into the media-world. With 28 posts on the forum and barely no activity in the news section I've been almost invisible. I've spent my life in the new world focusing on military and economy. I've fought 4 times per day on average and one month from this day I will probably be a Field Marshall. I'm worth 650 gold, but I only have 4 gold in my pockets; the rest is invested. So you can see that the time I didn't spend on politics och making a name of myself has been used in the best ways possible. In this article I will tell you the story of my eLife.

Learning to walk - Romania
I had read about eRepublik in some forums and was instantly interested. I was told to start my journey in Romania because they had the best salaries and they were constantly in armed conflict. I didn't quite understand why war was a good thing, but I followed their advice.
I think Romania is the resaon I've have had a lack of interest in interacting with other citizens. I lived in a country where I couldn't understand anyone and there were not many who wanted to talk in english. Therefore I turned to other thrills in the game.
As promised I had a decent salary from the start and it only got better and better. So as soon as I reached lvl5 I went to the market and bought a couple Q1-guns, which I used in the battlefield. Comparing the walls size and my damage I understood that I didn't make any difference in the battles, but I found the excitement in gaining in rank.
At this point all I cared about was fighting and I had no idea I would soon pick up an interest for economy. I didn't see money as a tool but as an obstacle in my way to being able to use a weapon in every fight. I was always broke since every penny that wasn't used to buy food went to buying weapons. But 30 days after my birth I noticed that I get 5 gold every month if I work everyday. I couldn't decide whether to exchange the gold into RON and buy weapons for it or if I should save it. If I used them to buy weapons I would be able to use a Q5 weapon and still have a lot left for Q1s, but I didn't know what the future would hold and if I saved money for a while I might be able to do something big. I had an internal debate the following days but I found my answer in the forums. There were people wanting to loan my gold in exchange for interest. So I sent my gold to one of the loan-takers and a week later my 5 gold had turned into 6 gold. Since then I have never held money in my pocket, they have always been invested somewhere. Of course I've been scammed, but the majority of the players here are honest and I've been able to make hundreds of gold this way.

Coming home - Sweden
As a RL-Swede I felt that I had to travel home when I heard that Sweden was going to invade their arch-enemy Germany. I joined the Swedish Military and moved home 5 days before the invasion. This was the first time I really took part of something outside my own little bubble. I read all articles regarding the subject and really got a good view of the whole thing. I could understand the thoughts of the swedish community but I actually thought that they acted in the wrong way. Still I fought for my country, and I stayed there a while after Germany was conquered.
But eSweden was to inactive for my taste. Articles with 30+ votes made it to the top news, and the salaries were incredibly low since Sweden hadn't had any regions with high productivity. The only hope for an increase of activity in Sweden was that the high-grain region conquered in the war against Germany would result in higher salaries. But when Hungary and France invaded Sweden and took all of Germany's regions I decided that it was time to move on.

General Manager for Calew Weapons - Hungary
A couple of weeks before moving from Sweden I had reached a fortune of almost 300 gold, so all I needed to start a Q5-company was 90 gold. I wrote a thread on the forum and started sending out letters to big banks and wealthy organizations. During the time I was waiting for a positive reply I studied the market. I studied demand, prices, RM-cost and labour and found out that a Q5-weapon company in Hungary would be the most profitable. A week later I found an investor willing to invest 100 gold for a reasonable interest. So, due to lack of imagination Calew ORG and Calew weapons was created and ever since that day I have had an extra income of ~5gold/day.

Present - USA
I have always admired USA in real life and in eRepublik. So it wasn't a very hard choice where I would move after the Hungarian invasion. I joined an army that was always fighting. Whether it was operations overseas, training wars or war in the US didn't matter because there were always some action.
Less than a month after my arrival in the states the third World War broke and I was in the middle of the actions. When Indonesia reached California I had been able to gather 80 gold and for the first time in my eLife I tanked. I was able to do 3500 damage in that single battle, but the battle was lost and the future for eUSA wasn't looking bright. PEACE practically just marsched further into the country without much resistance and I feared that my life in the USA would be short. But when we only had a few states left and enemy lines had reached Florida I was once again ready to tank. So when Florida was attacked I used this gold and this time I was able to do 4000+ damage. The battle was won (not due to my tanking, but still) and from that point the war has only been a success for us.

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