Brainstorming/spitballing the Natural Enemy Decision
Releasethe Krakken
I see eIreland is proposing and accepting no natural enemy again or should I say: eWimp is proposing no natural enemy and voting it in. Just the necessary trolling to get your attention, but really shouldn't we move from a Natural Enemy to a new Natural Enemy isn't that what an eCountry who is not afraid of its own shadow would do.
Ok enough with the motivation : "there there little Rikhian don't cry"
So lets brainstorm this a bit and I was a bit lazy again so didnt research everything but help me out in the comments if you want or write your own article.
So correct me if I'm wrong but do we need some kind of border with the country. A land border? Which would make England the only suitable candidate. Yet we Ne'd poland so I assume one doesnt need to share a border ergo Brazil/South Africa as well.
Size so lets go about double our own size which is 644 so that gives us about +-1300
35 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,461
36 Finland 1,274
37 Sweden 1,090
38 Israel 973
39 Uruguay 971
40 Paraguay 949
41 Australia 927
42 Latvia 885
43 India 861
44 Republic of Moldova 818
45 Japan 678
46 Estonia 647
47 Ireland 644
48 South Korea 636
49 Netherlands 541
50 Egypt 533
51 Czech Republic 522
52 Austria 509
53 Bolivia 506
54 Cyprus 505
55 Belgium 468
56 New Zealand 452
57 Switzerland 423
58 Philippines 419
59 Montenegro 389
60 Slovakia 387
61 Malaysia 386
62 South Africa 385
63 Saudi Arabia 326
64 Pakistan 314
65 Thailand 310
66 Norway 306
67 North Korea 284
68 Denmark 273
69 Singapore 203
70 United Arab Emirates 193
This is the point where our congress pluck out a hankey and have a snot fest. Let me guess top "oh they are so big" bottom "oh loook they are so small i cannot wipe a smallie boo hoo hoo"
Get over yourself we need a natural enemy. This is a game that is a beneficial game element stop arguing and get this in place.
Ok on a more serious note , this is quite a list. Which only leaves us with our final step
:Exclude alliance countries since this is up for vote I will just list our current alliance countries so that we can just use this as reference point which is:
Eden : Members:
1. Albania
2. Argentina
3. Belarus
4. Bosnia and Herzegovina
5. China
6. Croatia (+)
7. Greece
8. Ireland
9. Israel
10. Italy
11. Netherlands
12. Norway (+)
13. Portugal
14. Romania (+)
15. Taiwan
16. Turkey
17. Ukraine
Affiliated Non-Members
1. Australia
2. France
3. Iran
4. South Africa
5. Uruguay
So after that we can discuss it and come up with a decision. Please ignore the flaming but I am getting fed up with having no NE and most players would also.
Comments
You can only NE a country you have a border with...
we NE 's poland how did we manage that as well as Brazil NE South Africa?
Cause we had border at the time
Brazil has a natural border with South Africa here http://www.erepublik.com/en/region/Northern-Cape
Bit like how we have a natural border with Canada in Newfoundland
However, we are now landlocked again and our only option for war will be against UK, again.
The Irish Gov should have made that^ clear to the UK Gov and Congress so they could take it into consideration when making their decision on the region swap. We should have put the ball in their court and let them decide if they wanted to keep the treaty or leave us with no option but to consider war with them again, as we do not share a natural border with anyone else that we are not allied to.
Attacking Canada or USA will result in us losing most of our MPP stack, so that's not viable at the moment. Not to mention they are long-time allies of ours anyway.
So if we want war at some point then it's going to HAVE to be against the UK.
+ Ireland is no condition to attack anything successfully atm
Ya Ireland is kind of in a terrible location for wars. Too bad we don't have a border with France...
perhaps some popular magazine should petition for the natural borders to be increased for us or the requirement to be dropped. this is classical bad programming as the user (eireland )have only 1 option and is not strong enough to be a long term factor for dominance over england. cant see how plato missed this dilemma. else we must create a path somehow to another suitable natural enemy.
if they dropped the bordering requirement any country could invade anywhere in the world and we'd be repeatedly wiped by superpowers just for the lulz Krakken