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Hey, everybody. I’m here to ask a question, in the hopes someone with experience will answer it. I need to know what sort of Armed Forces a nation like mine would most likely have realistically, including Navy, Air Force, Army, etc… Someone please help me out, okay?

P.S.: None of the “All you can have is a mob of midgets with pointy sticks, NOOB.” stuff. It's rude, and a waste of time for people like me who are trying to do something constructive.

You can have what you want within the limits of your defense budget, there are a few GDP calculators on this site, find one and type in the necessary things for your nation and make sure you add the defense thing.

As for manpower, a good rule of thumb is between 2-5% of your nation's total population

I can't seem to get the one GDP Calculator I found to work. Does anybody happen know of any other GDP Calculators? The one I tried to use is at this link:

http://www.pipian.com/stuffforchat/gdpcalc.php

Edit: Double Post

Yup. You could manage around 600,000 soldiers, give or take a few thousand, in your total Armed Forces (as an upper limit). Course you don't have to have that much. And you can manage to keep about 240,000 in active service - as in, actually off fighting a war - at any one time. Much more than that and your economy would collapse, or at least suffer.....

Yup. You could manage around 600,000, give or take, in your total Armed Forces, as an upper limit. Course you don't have to have that much. And you can manage to keep about 240,000 in active service - as in, actually off fighting a war - at any one time. Much more than that and your economy would collapse, or at least suffer.....

Thanks, but I'm also looking for a way to determine how many tanks, ships, etc... I can have.

Check here (http://www.pipian.com/stuffforchat/gdpcalc.php?nation=Free%20Czechoslovakia&defenseprovided=1&defense=2) or just look below...

Free Czechoslovakia

Gross Domestic Product
Population: 12,000,000
Civil Rights: Unheard Of
Economy: Thriving
GDP per Capita: $20,000
GDP: $240,000,000,000
National Budget: $43,718,400,000

Percentage of GDP Spent on Defense: 2%
Percentage of Budget Spent on Defense: 10.98%
Military Budget: $4,800,000,000

Enough for:
154 F-15Es, or...
240 Su-34s, or...
255 F-16s, or...
436 MiG 29s, or...
1,116 M1A2 Abrams, or...
1,600 T-90s, or...
8,191,126 M-16s, or...
16,000,000 AK47s

Many thanks, FCN. I am indebted to you. I'll be working out details for the Free Czech Defense Force soon.

Your welcome...

Yeah, the Pippan(sp?) one works allright for starting up your info and such, but once you get a working knowledge of what you have, it's wackyness becomes a bit strange.

yup... I agree. Right now, there are several GDP calculators out... Just search for them online...

OOC: If you are willing to have a small but advanced military, and push the limits of modern tech, you might want to check out my storefront.

If you're not, I would reccomend the nation of Crookfur- I always take my very-close-to-modern-tech (This nation is on the edge between modern and future) nations to him.

Good luck and have fun playing NationStates.