Making money

Day 3,443, 09:51 Published in North Macedonia North Macedonia by Tom Falco

I was fortunate enough to play this game some years ago and to return years later (now) to play again. However, I've noticed the same problem with making money as before.

At the moment, it costs a lot of money to set up a factory, a lot to travel between regions and a lot to employ people. There's a lot of competition when selling products and the countries where products sell for more have very small populations, so is just as hard to sell in.

So, I have the following questions for the people of erepublik;

Where to open factories?
What factories to open?
What level should these factories be?
Where to sell the products these factories make?

I've opened it up as a discussion so that other readers can benefit from the answers to these questions too.