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Er.. Guys of the Old Continent, since Bean didn't play, Khitan... well, is Khitan still there or .. wiped off the face of the earth after WW1?
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Shroom Man 777 wrote:Maybe the Astarians could buy Shroomanian drugs to stimulate the mammaries of their women to lactate and stuff.
I'm not sure if you're trading with me in the first place. I've got lots of embargoes. Anyway once a woman is lactating it's fairly easy to keep her lactating, so trigger lactation or buy already lactating women and there you are.

It's just a small dairy too, and only a couple thousand girls total are involved in production. For now anyway.
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If he isn't, there's always me as intermediary!
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phongn wrote:If he isn't, there's always me as intermediary!
Yep! And in return, Shroomania can act as an intermediary to those Old Continental dudes who HAET the IRT's hypercapitalism.

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Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:Er.. Guys of the Old Continent, since Bean didn't play, Khitan... well, is Khitan still there or .. wiped off the face of the earth after WW1?
It's still there in the map, along with Vulpesia and a few quiet nations. I guess it's about as active as Mongolia is in real life. It IS a pseudo-Mongolia.
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The CSR is alarmed about the IRT's willingness to trade with people who practice slavery, human trade and direct exploit of human bodies.
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Stas Bush wrote:The CSR is alarmed about the IRT's willingness to trade with people who practice slavery, human trade and direct exploit of human bodies.
*Astaria sends nummy Sweet Meadows ice-cream to the IRT, air freight, hopefully those dour CSR diplomats will enjoy the taste of nummy Sweet Meadows style icecream* :-P
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Stas Bush wrote:The CSR is alarmed about the IRT's willingness to trade with people who practice slavery, human trade and direct exploit of human bodies.
I (the chairman of the board) find it distasteful, but the fact that they are virtually a captive market means I have little choice in the matter.
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Commune-1 is created.

The real goals are, of course, a little different from what the CCP would like you to think ;) think TOPGUN but for scientists, constructors and engineers.

"Extensive screening" means this is a Elite Sanctuary for people with extensive intellectual and other capabilities, mostly in science.

Of course, the government will be footing the bill for the first several years, and no one knows when the city will become 'self-sufficient', but it's good PR ;)
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On economic growth, it is completely impossible to calculate what it should be based on such limited data. We'd have to make up entirey arbitrary economic indicators in order to make it possible :)

Fingolfin, a contraction is unlikely based purely on military spending. Seeing as Byzantine trade is still solid and your industries aren't in much trouble, I'd think you could easily achieve a healthy 3% growth, if only in the military sectors.

In general, I'd say the guidelines are that developed countries with a healthy economy (means no wars, structural problems, resource shortages, incompetent management, financial crises etc.) can hover around 2-3% real growth, countries with major problems will generally grow at 1% or less, developing countries can either contract (kleptocracies do that a lot) or grow really, really fast due to introduction of technology (5-10%).

There are thousands of other factors than growth, of course. For example, rapid growth is generally correlated with higher inflation, and if your central bank falls asleep at the wheel, it may result in runaway inflation eating up your real growth. Growth can be unevenly distributed (as probably happens in San Dorado or China IRL), causing social or structural economic problems, etc - for example, in Byzantium's case, their military industry will flourish, as will related services, but other sectors can suffer because of higher taxes and less available labor.

Last but not least, it's possible for real GDP to grow while GDP per capita drops. Shady will see that, since he absorbed three broken or semi-broken republics, so he will get a boost to his total GDP, but his GDP per capita will drop to an average between the central USSR and the annexed border states.

One last thing: it's important to keep tabs on financial systems. I don't think I need to explain why, with all the nastiness happening IRL :D

Generally speaking, a good central bank's leadership should be a non-elected body (since the public doesn't know shit about economics, to be honest), separated from other branches of government. The way of appointing those people is important: I personally think they should be selected by the parliament, rather than the president or emperor.
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