Explanations, situation and choices

Day 1,137, 05:38 • Published in South Korea Romania • by Clopoyaur

Hi South Korea,

In these moments I feel the need of explaining a few things that are maybe unclear for many of the players living in South Korea.

According with the new resources allocation, each country can have bonuses for productivity depending on the resources the region they own posses. There are 2 main industries:
a) Raw materials
b) Finished products

The raw materials are grain and iron. If a country has at least 1 region of one kind, it means that the workers from the companies located in that country will receive a bonus of 25% in productivity.

The finished products are food and weapons. The bonuses for the manufactured industries are consisted of small parts of 5%.

For each region with at least one of the resources for food, a 5% bonus is granted. The bonuses for food industry are: grain, fruits, fish, cattle and deer. If a country has 2 of them (let’s say fish and grain, like South Korea), all the companies producing food will have a 10% bonus for the productivity of their employees.

The same applies for weapon industry. The bonuses for weapon industry are: iron, oil, aluminum, saltpeter and rubber. If a country has 3 of them the bonus for all the workers is 15%.

To summarize: South Korea has in this moment 25% bonus for grain (maximum), 25% bonus for iron (maximum), 10% bonus for food (has grain and fish in Taiwan) and 10% bonus for weapon (has iron and aluminum)



For bonuses it doesn’t matter if the country has 1 region of a kind or 10 of a kind, the bonus is given only once. This is the main reason why many nations started to make land swaps, for each country to get as high bonus as possible, giving away low populated region with resources they already have for regions with resources they need from other countries.

The purpose of all land swaps is higher productivity for both nations involved in the swap. Why is that so important? Because higher productivity means more products for the same amount of salary paid for companies. More products made for the same price, resulting in lower prices on the market for weapons and bread. Lower prices mean better fire power for all the soldiers of the nation, because they can buy more bread and more weapons with the same money.

Now South Korea is not a big nation in E-Republik but had the chance of receiving very valuable regions with a total bonus of 65% out of 100% possible. Additional resources for the country can be obtained in 2 ways: trough force by conquering other countries regions or trough land swaps (with controlled war). Every citizen of this nation knows the first option is not accessible since our military force is not big enough for a real war. This is why land swap is the best way and the cheapest solution for the country to get as many bonuses as possible.

The swap with Taiwan was a success for our side, as for almost 1 week now we control Central Taiwan, a region with fish, that booster the food productivity with 5% resulting also in a bread price drop in the last days. The price we paid for that was giving away Jeollabuk-do, a grain region, low populated from our country.

Taiwan balance: We gaved away Jeollabuk-do (35 citizens population), we received Central Taiwan (100 population). We have also obtained a war direct for our country, an excellent opportunity for the army to test its skills. Judge for yourself if that was a fair deal for us.

Unfortunately, Taiwan lost the region we gave away because of a RW, this is why, they restarted the war in order to take back that region. Again, nothing problematic there, just preserving the original deal.

The possible land swap with China: China would of have got 2 regions from us low populated again (40 and 43 population) with aluminum and grain and we would received in exchange 1 cow region (for additional 5% bonus on food) and a rent of 110 gold/month. Given the weakness of our army, safety measures were necessary, this is why, in the deal was stated that if we lose the cow region, China would pay us rent for the second region also. This would mean 220 gold/month, more than half of the income per month for the whole South Korea. Also, China agreed to pay the restoration of the MPP we could lose with Romania and support in getting the region we need to take.

What is the alternative? To stay inside our borders and watch the other nations grow, while we can grow also? We lose 2 regions with 80-90 population in total, but we receive 1 region from China with 120 population. The population of the country will remain almost the same. Also the ones stuck in a conquered region could come back to the country using a 1 region ticket. All the countries in the eWorld seek for progress and for better productivity bonuses. Why South Korea must be an exception. Why a worker to produce 25 breads when it can produce 28? Why to have higher prices when we can have lower ones? Why to oppose progress?



Poland conquered Germany, Hungary conquered Ukraine, Spain conquered Venezuela, USA conquered Mexico. Overall, big countries conquered smaller ones. We, South Korea, as a small nation, have the chance to be independent and still, have higher bonuses. Dear congressman, what path do you choose?

Mediocrity or progress?

Clopoyaur,
President of South Korea