Philosophy of eRepublik : Babybooms, Empires, Strategy and Nationalism

Day 1,098, 06:16 Published in India India by Enigma1990
Introduction
We have fallen prey to the conquests of many nations. Yet still we do not share a feeling of hatred towards each other, at times we do when we are defeated. Our rivalries will always continue, as war is what drives economies. We will just go on conquering each other's regions over time 🙂 We cant blame a country for attacking us as it happens all the time. It has brought us together to work for a stronger nation. Here are some of the things you need to know about the eWorld


Babybooms
Babybooms have given rise to empires, A country's population determines its strength, economy and conquests. A babyboom would be the single driving force of a country if it happens. There are two examples for this :

Polish Babyboom : 50k Citizens
Late in November 2009, Poland invaded and conquered three German border regions with the assistance of EDEN. They used a screenshot of Poland with those three regions and posted it around the Polish internet, inviting thousands of players in almost overnight. After the babyboom was done, Poland had gained over 50,000 citizens. They used these citizens, eager to wage war on Germany to reduce Germany to its capital in Saarland. It was a hard fight in Saarland, but Poland defeated Germany and multiple PHOENIX allies all by itself.

Hungarian Babyboom : INDEX.HU
World War I started after Romania declared war on Hungary. Romania's declaration came two days after the formation of the PEACE GC and was declared before many PEACE protection pacts with Hungary became active. At the end of the war Hungary was reduced to just one region , Hungary had to struggle at the beginning of V1. Few month laters, on February 9, 2009 the famous index.hu babyboom started that eventually led to the rise of the Hungarian empire.

The Polish Babyboom lasted only months and dropped hugely, this happened most probably due to lack of newbie retention, but how could they retain such a huge population ?


Rise and Fall of empires
Indonesia had been considered one of the strongest nations of the world, laying claims to regions highly rich is resources, it had also been the only nation who were never defeated while defending their homesoil (Orginal territories) which is a great achievement indeed but recently the USA showed its superiority by defeating Indonesia at Sumatra breaking Indonesia's record. The changes made in the game lately have shifted the balance between the two major alliances hugely. Eventually all empires will fall.


Strategy
After Phoenix powers were defeated in India and China, Pakistan silently swapped Iran, Turkey and Bulgaria regions up to the PHOENIX superpower Serbia. Serbia used the Pakistan landbridge to bring itself to Asia. Serbia waited silently for months in Pakistan. After waiting for nearly a month at the Indian border Serbia decided to move on China. Russia captured the Chinese region of Xinjiang, the region that Pakistan bordered. Hungary captured Liaoning and defended the region from Chinese attacks. Serbia swapped with Russia and Hungary to reach Liaoning. EDEN tried to conquer Liaoning quite a number of times but they were defeated each time but finally EDEN succeeded in taking back Liaoning, which was a huge success for EDEN.


Nationalism
Nationality is the feeling which provokes us to drain all our wealth to defend our country and help it grow. We take our people to be stronger than the citizens of other countries. Instead of helping its allies in important battles, A country looks for its own selfish interest, fighting in low importance battles. This will always lead to the fall of a country. You need to help your allies before they would help you !

- Swadhin
With sources from the eRepublik Wiki