02-01-2004, 18:29
This may seem like a odd first post, but I haven't found a system for determining my national budget that I liked, so I came up with this system:
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Economic System
This system is designed to determine 3 important economic factors about your nation: GDP per capita, GDP, and your nations annual budget. To determine your nations status, you will need to know these things: nations population, nations economic type (stong, frightening, imploded, ect.), and type of government.
The first thing I did is found a list of economic power of the real nations of the world, from best to worst. I found my list here: Nation Master.com (http://www.nationmaster.com/). Then I found a list of the types of economies in order from best to worse. Then I assigned a real world country to each economy type based on GDP per capita. For example, I determined that there is no real world frightening economy, so the US was put at All Consuming (I ignored Luxembourg). I put the country with the worst economy (East Timor) at imploded. I assumed that there wouldn’t be a direct correlation (i.e. the middle economy on the chart wouldn’t match up with the middle economy of the world. So I guessed that the top economies would be close to each other and then there would be a drop off. I guessed the drop off to start at good. I then filled in the list with countries and made up some numbers for Frightening:
Type-----------GDP per capita--------------Country Rank (GDP per capita)
Frightening----$43,900 per person----------N/a
All Consuming$35,935.02 per person-------2 (USA)
Power House--$31,601.37 per person-------7 (Norway)
Thriving-------$27,540.78 per person-------15 (Aruba)
Very Strong---$20,850.45 per person ------29 (United Arab Emirates)
Strong---------$19,777.88 per person-------35 (Faroe Islands)
Very Good----$16,637.33 per person-------50 (Bahamas, The)
Good----------$12,797.13 per person-------58 (Bahrain)
Reasonable---$8,897.49 per person---------74 (Mexico)
Developing----$6,019.51 per person--------99 (Venezuela)
Fair------------$4,585.24 per person---------115 (Turkmenistan)
Struggling-----$3,159.28 per person---------140 (Syria)
Weak----------$2,307.49 per person---------160 (Tonga)
Fragile---------$1,437.9 per person-----------182 (Togo)
Basket Case---$989.19 per person----------200 (Chad)
Imploded-------$435.64 per person----------225 (East Timor)
Since some of these nations I have never heard of, here is a chart I made with rounded numbers and nations you might have heard of:
Type-----------GDP per capita---------------Economy like…
Frightening----$44,000 per person---------No country on Earth
All Consuming$36,000 per person---------USA
Power House--$31,500 per person---------Switzerland
Thriving-------$27,500 per person---------Japan
Very Strong---$23,500 per person---------UK
Strong---------$21,000 per person---------Israel
Very Good----$15,000 per person---------Czech Republic
Good----------$9,000 per person-----------Mexico
Reasonable---$8,500 per person-----------Russia
Developing----$6000 per person-----------Venezuela
Fair------------$4,500 per person-----------China
Struggling-----$3,000 per person-----------Syria
Weak----------$2,250 per person-----------Cuba
Fragile---------$1,500 per person-----------Cambodia
Basket Case--$1,000 per person-----------Korea, North
Imploded------$500 per person-------------East Timor
Notice that I increased some figures so that the table didn’t drop off as fast. Now we are getting somewhere, using this table you can find important fact #1, your country’s GDP per capita. To calculate your country’s GDP simply multiply your GDP per capita by your population.
The next thing we must do is figure out what percentage of your GDP is your national budget. This varies by government type:
United States style democracy: 10-20%
European style democracy (Socialism and Capitalism): 21-29%
Socialist or Communist completely: 30%-40%
Total Dictatorship: 41%+
To determine what type of government you have, first just see what it says, dictatorship, democracy, or whatever. Another indication is your tax rate; the higher it is the higher percentage of GDP you will have.
Finally, to figure out your nations yearly budget, take your GDP and multiply it by the percentage you got from the step above.
For example, my tiny nation of Greenhome has a population of 6 million, a strong economy, and it is a “New York Times” democracy with about a 20% tax rate. So first I find my GDP per capita, for a strong economy it is $21,000 per person. I then multiply it by my population to get my GDP: 126 billion dollars. Since I am a democracy, I will use 15% of my GDP as my budget. So my nations yearly budget is about 18.9 billion dollars. This seems small but my nation has only 6 million people and I don’t tax them much.
Feel free to comment on this system, or tell me what is wrong with it.
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Economic System
This system is designed to determine 3 important economic factors about your nation: GDP per capita, GDP, and your nations annual budget. To determine your nations status, you will need to know these things: nations population, nations economic type (stong, frightening, imploded, ect.), and type of government.
The first thing I did is found a list of economic power of the real nations of the world, from best to worst. I found my list here: Nation Master.com (http://www.nationmaster.com/). Then I found a list of the types of economies in order from best to worse. Then I assigned a real world country to each economy type based on GDP per capita. For example, I determined that there is no real world frightening economy, so the US was put at All Consuming (I ignored Luxembourg). I put the country with the worst economy (East Timor) at imploded. I assumed that there wouldn’t be a direct correlation (i.e. the middle economy on the chart wouldn’t match up with the middle economy of the world. So I guessed that the top economies would be close to each other and then there would be a drop off. I guessed the drop off to start at good. I then filled in the list with countries and made up some numbers for Frightening:
Type-----------GDP per capita--------------Country Rank (GDP per capita)
Frightening----$43,900 per person----------N/a
All Consuming$35,935.02 per person-------2 (USA)
Power House--$31,601.37 per person-------7 (Norway)
Thriving-------$27,540.78 per person-------15 (Aruba)
Very Strong---$20,850.45 per person ------29 (United Arab Emirates)
Strong---------$19,777.88 per person-------35 (Faroe Islands)
Very Good----$16,637.33 per person-------50 (Bahamas, The)
Good----------$12,797.13 per person-------58 (Bahrain)
Reasonable---$8,897.49 per person---------74 (Mexico)
Developing----$6,019.51 per person--------99 (Venezuela)
Fair------------$4,585.24 per person---------115 (Turkmenistan)
Struggling-----$3,159.28 per person---------140 (Syria)
Weak----------$2,307.49 per person---------160 (Tonga)
Fragile---------$1,437.9 per person-----------182 (Togo)
Basket Case---$989.19 per person----------200 (Chad)
Imploded-------$435.64 per person----------225 (East Timor)
Since some of these nations I have never heard of, here is a chart I made with rounded numbers and nations you might have heard of:
Type-----------GDP per capita---------------Economy like…
Frightening----$44,000 per person---------No country on Earth
All Consuming$36,000 per person---------USA
Power House--$31,500 per person---------Switzerland
Thriving-------$27,500 per person---------Japan
Very Strong---$23,500 per person---------UK
Strong---------$21,000 per person---------Israel
Very Good----$15,000 per person---------Czech Republic
Good----------$9,000 per person-----------Mexico
Reasonable---$8,500 per person-----------Russia
Developing----$6000 per person-----------Venezuela
Fair------------$4,500 per person-----------China
Struggling-----$3,000 per person-----------Syria
Weak----------$2,250 per person-----------Cuba
Fragile---------$1,500 per person-----------Cambodia
Basket Case--$1,000 per person-----------Korea, North
Imploded------$500 per person-------------East Timor
Notice that I increased some figures so that the table didn’t drop off as fast. Now we are getting somewhere, using this table you can find important fact #1, your country’s GDP per capita. To calculate your country’s GDP simply multiply your GDP per capita by your population.
The next thing we must do is figure out what percentage of your GDP is your national budget. This varies by government type:
United States style democracy: 10-20%
European style democracy (Socialism and Capitalism): 21-29%
Socialist or Communist completely: 30%-40%
Total Dictatorship: 41%+
To determine what type of government you have, first just see what it says, dictatorship, democracy, or whatever. Another indication is your tax rate; the higher it is the higher percentage of GDP you will have.
Finally, to figure out your nations yearly budget, take your GDP and multiply it by the percentage you got from the step above.
For example, my tiny nation of Greenhome has a population of 6 million, a strong economy, and it is a “New York Times” democracy with about a 20% tax rate. So first I find my GDP per capita, for a strong economy it is $21,000 per person. I then multiply it by my population to get my GDP: 126 billion dollars. Since I am a democracy, I will use 15% of my GDP as my budget. So my nations yearly budget is about 18.9 billion dollars. This seems small but my nation has only 6 million people and I don’t tax them much.
Feel free to comment on this system, or tell me what is wrong with it.