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Military forces are being augmented with a new draft of 1 million troops.

OOC: Ok. Thanks for letting me know. :)

Military forces are being augmented with a new draft of 1 million troops.

1million + X = ?

How many did you start with?

OOC: Ok. Thanks for letting me know. :)
Didn't want any being alarmed when I announce the draft of 25 million troops. Got to start small you know.
Goal is 500 million.

Military forces are being augmented with a new draft of 1 million troops.

1million + X = ?

How many did you start with?
1 million.
I might not be able to get my 500 million due to budget constraints.
But I can try. :D

Well, let's see how much we can give you this week, laddie.

*Counts Bills*

20, 30, 40 million dollars donated to Whittier.

I pay each soldier 10k a year. So that keeps my numbers down.
I'd make them do it for free but paying them makes it less likely they'll defect to the enemy of flee the battle.

Well, let's see how much we can give you this week, laddie.

*Counts Bills*

20, 30, 40 million dollars donated to Whittier.
Still wouldn't be enough. I'd have to spend over 2 trillion dollars to do it. Which no one on NS has. Unless they have a savings account in of the NS banks with a few trillion in it. But even then it would last only a couple of years before they were forced to downsize due to running out of funds.

I pay each soldier 10k a year. So that keeps my numbers down.
I'd make them do it for free but paying them makes it less likely they'll defect to the enemy of flee the battle.

Wow,... the avg salary of a Noviet soldier is 55K USD. I like to make sure my men are well fed and loyal.

Well, let's see how much we can give you this week, laddie.

*Counts Bills*

20, 30, 40 million dollars donated to Whittier.
Still wouldn't be enough. I'd have to spend over 2 trillion dollars to do it. Which no one on NS has. Unless they have a savings account in of the NS banks with a few trillion in it. But even then it would last only a couple of years before they were forced to downsize due to running out of funds.

i belive i read i thread from a few months ago that said Menalmacar's Military Budget was like 25 trillion USD.

I was just making a friendly donation. If you don't want it, give it back. I don't care what you use it for.

I pay each soldier 10k a year. So that keeps my numbers down.
I'd make them do it for free but paying them makes it less likely they'll defect to the enemy of flee the battle.

Wow,... the avg salary of a Noviet soldier is 55K USD. I like to make sure my men are well fed and loyal.
Don't worry, parliament is debating a pay raise and that is only what we pay the ground grunts. Special Ops troops and airborne get 20k a year.
The Secretary General recieves a salary of 500k a year not including expenses.

I pay each soldier 10k a year. So that keeps my numbers down.
I'd make them do it for free but paying them makes it less likely they'll defect to the enemy of flee the battle.

Wow,... the avg salary of a Noviet soldier is 55K USD. I like to make sure my men are well fed and loyal.
Don't worry, parliament is debating a pay raise and that is only what we pay the ground grunts. Special Ops troops and airborne get 20k a year.
The Secretary General recieves a salary of 500k a year not including expenses.

55K avg armed forces salary (higher for officers)
spec ops paid 100K a year
Milatary Intel 70K

If your people are content, or complacent, with 10K a year then who are we to talk?

Well, let's see how much we can give you this week, laddie.

*Counts Bills*

20, 30, 40 million dollars donated to Whittier.
Still wouldn't be enough. I'd have to spend over 2 trillion dollars to do it. Which no one on NS has. Unless they have a savings account in of the NS banks with a few trillion in it. But even then it would last only a couple of years before they were forced to downsize due to running out of funds.

i belive i read i thread from a few months ago that said Menalmacar's Military Budget was like 25 trillion USD.
It depends on which calculator you use. If you use the one, which is ideologically biased and has no bases in fact then she might have 25 trillion.
But if you use this one (which is much more realistici)
http://www.thirdgeek.com/nseconomy.php?nation=menelmacar
she has a little over 131 trillion in her GDP.
And her actual govt. budget is 34 trillion.

Compared with just 18 trillion GDP for Whittier and
whittier budget of 19 trillion. which pretty much puts my nation in debt.

I was just making a friendly donation. If you don't want it, give it back. I don't care what you use it for.
We would accept and use for debt repayment.
And we would like to establish diplomatic relations with the generous nation that made the donation.

The Union of People's Republics of Whittier

"The purpose of Life is to help others."

Government Category: Inoffensive Centrist Democracy
Government Priority: Education
Economic Rating: Good
Civil Rights Rating: Average
Political Freedoms: Average
Income Tax Rate: 100%
Major Industry: Gambling
National Currency: canali
National Animal: golden dragon
Total Population: 2,950,000,000

Exchange Rate: 2.9055 canalis = $1
Gross Domestic Product: $18,823,503,833,944.38
GDP Per Capita: $6,380.85
Consumption: $0.00
Government Budget: $19,515,524,400,000.00
Government Expenditures: $18,734,903,424,000.00
Goverment Waste: $780,620,976,000.00
Exports: $2,430,463,337,944.38
Imports: $2,341,862,928,000.00
Trade Surplus: $88,600,409,944.38
Gross Regional Product: $258,491,611,644,501.53
GRP Per Capita: $11,987.74
Regional Population: 21,563,000,000
Regional Average GDP: $13,604,821,665,500.08

What I like about this one is that it gives the per capita which is a stronger indicator of a nations economic strength.

I was just making a friendly donation. If you don't want it, give it back. I don't care what you use it for.
We would accept and use for debt repayment.
And we would like to establish diplomatic relations with the generous nation that made the donation.
Sure. You may establish an embassy in Highfather, and may we establish one in your capital city of...?

:? :? Now if I could just figure out how it is that my budget is bigger than my GDP. :? :?

I was just making a friendly donation. If you don't want it, give it back. I don't care what you use it for.
We would accept and use for debt repayment.
And we would like to establish diplomatic relations with the generous nation that made the donation.
Sure. You may establish an embassy in Highfather, and may we establish one in your capital city of...?
The capital is Whittier. You may establish your embassy anywhere in the city where people are willing to sell their property.

Turns out I have surplus not a debt.
But I have no consumers.

At least I have a trade surplus instead of a trade deficit.

"Good" economy?!? Weren't you at "Frightening"?

"Good" economy?!? Weren't you at "Frightening"?
When was I ever at Frightening?
Don't forget that civil war I had awhile back and all these anti terror wars I was forced into. Not to mention those other wars awhile back. They wrecked my economy. :(
See, even for frightineng economies wars aren't good. They can turn you into a "good" economy with less money and no consumer spending.
:)

My pay for my soldiers is fresh human, lol