Two-year anniversary of the cities update – So much money
TheJuliusCaesar
Greetings, it's been a long time.
The cities were added to the game exactly two years ago. Along with the update, it was said that the local elections module would be added in the following weeks.
Granted, we're still living "the following weeks", but one might have thought it a little shorter timespan. In any case, along with introducing cities, a host of taxes were introduced for the sake of our wellbeing by the thoughtful Plato:
- Country subsidies - 10% of the national income is divided equally between all the cities
- Residential tax - what you pay to become a resident
- Property tax - paid for activating or transferring houses
The money taxed went–and is still going–to the city budget, which unfortunately cannot be used without the local elections module promised. Result? The city budgets hold globally over 219 863 095cc of money which cannot currently be used. Yes you read that right. Nearly 220 million currency. 245 000 gold with the current exchange rate.
The amount of currency and its distribution was last gauged by Zordacz in his magnificent article nearly three hundred days ago–in the summer of 2018. Since then, the amount of currency in treasuries has grown significantly, from a bit less than 95 million cc to the current and already mentioned 220 million.
Master_rg from erepublik.tools was kind enough to provide the dataset for the current distribution of currency in city budgets. Kudos also for zRTx for helping with the navigation with the mess of formatting this article.
Without further ado, here's first some overall stats about the current state of cities:
Total residents: 19 150 (-1 276)
Total visitors: 50 139 (-8 66
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Total GDP: 100 103 021cc (+63 970 461cc)
As the smartest might have noticed, the total amount of residents has gone down by nearly 1 500 citizens and visitors by 8 000 citizens during the last three hundred days. Perhaps this tells something about the current direction of the game.
At the same time, total gross domestic product has nearly tripled in three hundred days. The raise is most likely attributable in citizens bying more companies to produce with.
Here be, then, the top five cities sorted by their size of treasury. In spite of my steadfast opposition towards emojis, I've used some here as zRTx told me they'd increase the readability of this article. I yielded.
💰Gdansk (Pomerania, Poland) - 9 388 044 cc
💰Iasi (Moldova, Romania) - 8 143 089 cc
💰Buenos Aires (Pampas, Argentina) - 5 940 339 cc
💰Belgrade (Belgrade, Serbia) - 4 323 583 cc
💰Punta Arenas (Zona Austral, Chile) - 4 011 217 cc
As we an see, the list is crowded with familiar big nations–the top two cities of Gdansk (Poland) and Iasi (Romania) having roughly twice the size of treasury than the rest in the list.
Next, cities sorted by their gross domestic product–meaning who produces the most valuable things and how much, total production.
👷Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain) - 17 532 766 GDP
👷Olympia (Washington, USA) - 6 448 837 GDP
👷Tallahassee (Florida, USA) - 5 449 817 GDP
👷Zahedan (Sistan and Baluchistan, Iran) - 3 976 563 GDP
👷Krasnoyarsk (Eastern Siberia, Russia) - 3 745 418 GDP
The list differts significantly from the top treasuries presented earlier, all five cities above are regions with bonuses for house production. As constructing a house requires paid labour and cannot be worked as a manager, the resulting GDP increases significantly.
Worthwhile to note that the leading region in this, Spanish Canary Islands, has the gross domestic product of nearly three times the GDP of Washington, USA, which occupies the second place in the list. Though, United States occupies also the third place in the list with Florida. Combined, Washington and Florida have a sizeable GDP of over 10 million cc.
And, for comparison and a rough overall picture, top cities sorted by their residents:
🤖Belgrade (Belgrade, Serbia) - 404 residents
🤖Gdansk (Pomerania, Poland) - 337 residents
🤖Iasi (Moldova, Romania) - 316 residents
🤖Buenos Aires (Pampas, Argentina) - 311 residents
🤖Budapest (Central Hungary, Hungary) - 304 residents
The listing matches the top cities sorted by size of treasury, with the exception of Budapest (Hungary) taking the fifth place instead of Punta Arenas (Chile).
Finally, I decided to look how the treasuries add up when taken to the national level instead of regions and cities:
💸Turkey - 21 473 169 cc
💸Romania - 16 075 949 cc
💸Poland - 15 926 747 cc
💸Serbia - 14 205 993 cc
💸Hungary - 13 980 492 cc
The wealthiest nation by city budgets is Turkey, currently occupying Bulgaria, with a rather large margin of over five million citizenship currency. Romania, Poland, Serbia and Hungary follow in tight succesion after that.
What does it all mean, then? As mentioned, the gross production is significantly up while the number of residents is slightly down. We have more weapons, more food, more houses and more raw materials in our hands than three hundred days ago. As we have numerous sinks for in-game currency where the money used completely disappears, however, the prices have not decreased the same amount as production has increased.
Further, the big nations have a sizeable chunk of cash in their city treasuries which they cannot currently access. Of course they also have significantly bigger incomes, as the treasuries are mostly a proportion of their income, but making the stashes available suddenly would probably cause momentary increased spending, airstrikes and increased Combat Orders, perhaps increased prices. A lot would depend on how the local democracy promised would work.
On another note, I'm a bit surprised we are still as numerous as 19 000 residents globally. That number might have some artificial inflation to it, but we're probably still talking north of 15 000 citizens still living.
Perhaps another hiatus of 450 days with articles is in order now,
- Caesar
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good article!
ο7
You shouldn't have become a resident in the first place.
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Otherwise it is a great article!
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What a joke, 2 years and they still have impermented this, lazy owners.
All ticket admin asking them what its going to be sorted out .
A very recent update finally compared to the 1035 days of the useless perception 😃
Also still waiting for the "strategy" that was supposed to be involved with air battles, so you could choose which rounds would be air rounds instead of the "temporary" 1 out of 4.
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o7
Kiitos jännittävästä artikkelista!
🙁((((((( ne stawash! hadmins!
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I wonder when will the admins announce the fact that the game is abandoned?
That would scare whales off. The cow has to be milked dry.
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funny to read
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When i think the potential this game could have if properly developed i remember the (utter)(in)efficiency of its administration to recall my self to reality.
I hope people read this to realize how terribly this platform has been managed mainly due to the incompetence of the delivering team and not so much in the lack of vision.
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the rise in GDP is mostly caused by continuous CC to gold inflation
numbers rise faster than the value
o7
should we organize a strike and boycott the game for a day?
220 million, that's nothing compared to the daily cc generation due to True Patriot medals
Given that even the existing congress places can't be filled up with active players, democracies are disfunctional, the very same people are running things in almost all countries for years, what would happen if they introduced local elections without adding something interesting feature to it that makes the whole thing meaningful? Probably nothing.
Very pleasing to read! Hope to se an update soon
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Superb article o/
Would be happy to help in future 🙂
2 years? That means I didn´t even read the cities tutorial for 2 years now!
Great article
Great
i am still waiting this module to be added in the following weeks
I don't think, the GDP rise would be so impressive if you take into account the inflation. Gold price, salaries and market prices are constantly rising.
And there is only limited amount of food and weapons, single citizen can consume in a day. I don't have market prices from 300 days ago, but I would guess, the GDP may be even lower than back then - if converted to qantities of food and weapons.
"As soon as possible"(с) admins
Great article. Very interesting
Thanks for your work.
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2697132
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Remove the failed attempt to create city government and give back the money to the national treasuries.
Do keep the cities.
Fasismi, kommumismi, journalismi.
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One aspect to this is that if they now implement cities the cities with the most money are likely in a lot better position. That kinda ruins the idea of the cities since competition is over before started. I suspect every country now has one city with significantly more money than the rest. They should reset the city treasuries or return the money to countries before implementation.
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Putin more money will only make cc in our pockets worthless
Happy Birthday Prohibited Banking Ppl o/