Alighieri84 wrote:I was looking at the nation budget on Particracy. I don't know how this fits in with forum RP, but comparable to RL defense budgets, Gaduridos would be closest to South Korea. But again, that would probably be modified according to other factors like population, and how other players saw/deemed the nation, like Kubrick said.
It's also important to remember that the economics system of Particracy never completed development. It's a good thing to use as a reference, but it's difficult to draw comparisons between real life and the numbers in the game's economies. Nations can choose to tax their people 100% in PT's economic system without any dire effects, and that's just plain not cool. Also, we've never even really been able to agree if 1 LOD = 1 USD, so who knows how much 1 GAD equals.
If you're interested, you might take a look at this old thread which links to a document I wrote with a lot of community members a long time ago. In it we gave a couple of recommendations for budgets in PT:
We will remain between 0% and 5% military spending as a percentage of GDP in most cases, and will only reach higher than 10% in extreme cases where the situation is well RPed and thought out.
We will remain between roughly 15% and 55% expenditure as a percentage of GDP in most cases, and will only reach higher in extreme cases where the situation is well RPed and thought out.
I welcome any comments you might have on that document in its whole.
