eRepublik, the New World of Opportunities

Day 5,587, 07:38 • Published in USA USA • by Mister Y


Hello hello loyal and less loyal gamers. I’m here today (pushed by our new Country President) to talk about this new world called eRepublik. Yes, he wanted to underline the word “new”, because, even if the game is 16 years old, the eWorld where we live, and work, and train, and fight, it’s really NEW. Let’s understand why, retracing some pieces of the game history.

Few days ago George Armstrong Custer wake up with some silly questions: how many people are REALLY involved in eUSA country today? There are more or less chances of success for a single person, compared to years ago? How much influence has an involved beginner today, compared to a beginner of some years ago?

I tried to answer these questions. The hardest job was finding the old data, because numbers can explain almost everything. I separated the group of actively involved people from the "sea" of two clickers. I consider involved :
- the cabinet of the country,
- the other grey eminences working behind the cabinet,
- the congress people,
- the active journalists.

I let out the tankers, because they are difficult to quantify, above all in the past years. So I'm talking mostly about the people involved in politics and media.

Looking at the absolute numbers this people did not changed a lot: today there are 12 people in the cabinet (and headquarters in general), 43 congressmen and around 15 active journalists.
When I was in Congress, between 2010 and 2011 under the President Oblige, we were 42 congressmen, the headquarters counted 18 other people and I can remember there were a bit more than double articles than today, let’s say 32 active journalists.

So, in 12 years, the number of involved citizens did not changed much.

The first graphic shows the number of votes in the eUSA history. The graphic was already provided by Harvey Spectre a year ago, I updated it adding the last year results:



From elections we can extrapolate the total population, because Custer said the votes are always the 22-25 % of the total population. He’s our President, so we must trust him!

But if you don’t, I provided some old data also.
In the end of 2009 eRepublik was already famous: it was nominated “First game of the day” (February 11th) and it won some awards too.
In this screenshot you can see eUSA had 5345 citizens.

https://i.imgur.com/HflZbE7.jpg

There were around 3800 people voting for the congress and 4200 voting for the President. Ok, we can forgive Custer's mistake this time, but the pie representing the population was big, and the involved people took just a tiny slice:



eRepublik reached its top in July 2010, when the V2 ruined it forever. In the last days of V1 the gaming population was difficult to imagine, but this blurry screenshot helps:

https://i.imgur.com/9MMHxl1.jpg

eUSA had more than 18.000 citizens, but just 2000 was active in elections and the ones involved in politics and media were still the same as before:



I skip the bad happenings of the V2, but in V3 eRepublik found again its balance. In August 2011 eUSA wasn’t in top 5 countries but we can suppose 7000 players:

https://i.imgur.com/nxVCwec.jpg

The votes were still a lot: 1800.



The game slowly declined. Here there is a rare screenshot from november 2015:

https://i.imgur.com/0nq1eCt.jpg

The votes were 630 in an extimated population of 3000 or 4000 citizens. The pie is reduced, representing less population (almost a quarter than 2011), but, as the numbers of involved citizens had almost no changes, the slices are bigger:



Finally I reach my official data collection in September 2019, with 280 votes in a population of 1300:



And the beginning of 2023, with just 265 votes in a population of 1100:




Do you find it small? Of course it is! But look at the slices: more than a quarter of eUSA players are involved in something, and I don’t even considered the military module.
It means this is really a new world, a world with more opportunities, a world where everyone can get his pizza slice. A world where every individual's value don’t go lost in a sea of thousands of meaningless values. This is the eRepublik where everyone counts, because 1 in 200 counts a lot more than 1 in 4000.
If you are reading this article, you have a big influence and you are important!
So, what are you waiting for? Wake up and stay involved, eAmerica needs you!