Kubrick wrote:As Liu said, the list is not permanent. Things change in Particracy and things will keep changing. When I first arrived in Vanuku I roleplayed it as a medium developed nation which overall was quite poor and below average. Over the years that perception seems to have changed and now it's on the high development list.
Plus there are also plans to make a military ranking and with that updates will be even more important. Reviews will happen!
The military, I would some help developing my nations military further. After the moderation cleaned up everything I cant find the bill which stated all our numbers, equipment etc. quite annoying so I have to think of it all on my own but I have NO CLUE on military names, equipment and im just doing something. So when I have the time ill contact you guys about it.
The economy thing is indeed good. I see New Endralon as a nation that has potential for greatness if the infights and political instability due to the rivalry between the three ethnicies wasn't so great. I would like as I said in my earlier post see a resource and production map, it would greatly help.
These measurements are also relative to each nation, meaning we do not convert everything to LOD and then compare. Rather, we want to see what each individual nation views as important.
I totally agree with this. Doing so would limit everything. Also the size of the GDP, the military strength and its international standing says nothing about its economic development. Look at China and Russia for instance.
I am a free market liberal as well. However, capitalism does not exclude the government from investments in infrastructure (Adam Smith was a huge proponent of this). Additionally, I would argue that any big service or high tech industries would simply move to places where they get subsidies from the government, which are very anti-free market. Basically, if everyone doesn't practice free market policies, the free market doesn't work the way it should work. Plus, allowing everyone to say the private sector takes care of it is a huge cop out. All governments around the world practice anti-capitalist policies, largely for political reasons, as in most government spend money on a variety of things in society because that is what society or subsections of society demand, making it reasonable to include budgetary focus measurements.
Don't get me wrong, I don't oppose this. Adam Smith was right and my economic books also state the various things a government needs to do to develop a country to the next stage and I intend to keep to that. They simply aren't what you are mentioning though I do think they should be factored in. But I feared a too Keynessian bias would be used, I agree that a total anarchy or a unlimited free market and a totally socialist nation would both get a lesser rating then nations who are less ''radical''. Our nation has also invested more in education and healthcare because of it. So no critizism but a skeptical view to see if bias was in play, which it wasn't.
Probably not the best way to get people on our side, but we are being honest since we know that we cannot bend to everyone, because that would most likely make the point of the list moot.
Agreed, though the wording could have been chosen more carefully.
3. Limitations on RP, ones that are realist and actually enrich RP instead of making everything nearly identical, is good. As for your explanation of your country's situation, you can have whatever explanation you want. Our list is merely to show where everyone is, not explain why they are there. That is up for the players to decide for their individual situations.
Oh okay, that's what I wanted to hear, thank you!
4. I'm not sure what you are getting at here. Are you saying the list should also reflect the real world standing of the nations in which PT nation's are based?
Absolutely not. I meant to say that I questioned the wording of the medium development thing as if it were set in stone. But scrap it, its a misunderstanding from my part.
5. A name change is very easy to do and we will be happy to comply.
Thanks, I appreciate that.
6. Ex-colonial in this case refers to the former colonies of Dovani, Temania (formerly Squibble), Tropica, and Vascania. Underdevelopment does not apply to playable PT countries.
7. Relations do not really come into play with this list. Plus, Sekowo hasn't been under the thumb of Indrala.
Yeah I figured, I factchecked myself on the wiki and thus removed these questions.