We legalized drugs at the outset of the game. Not sure about the other one though.

It's about the same as it was when we invaded Mauritania. Not much has changed really.

As of right now gay marriage is illegal, and drugs in general are legal. We actually export them now. I've never actually found out what legalizing gay marriage does. It could have something to do with the birth rate, or just affect our approval rating.

I like the idea of having someone initiate a war with the UAE for us, but who should it be? I'm pretty sure any NATO country can take them out in one shot, then we can just move in. We're not quite capable of taking them by ourselves. Maybe have the U.S. do it, so that the mideast hates them even more and we can maybe get them taken out in the process.

I approve of that course of action.

Plus, with all that terratory....

The Arab War
 

March 28, 2016

The threat from the mideast did nothing to hide it's presence, and only one thing was left to do...

Extinguish it.

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Coerced by us, Israel's armies reached the shores of Sharjah in the northern UAE and met the full force of the Arabs in combat while their navies met in the Gulf. Saudi Arabia quickly joined in to back up their ally in a battle further south, towards the Arabian border. We didn't follow too far behind as our entire army snuck between the two battles unseen and took the region in between.

That's when our commanding officer recieved the call. Our navy had been engaged off the coast of Mauritania. The Saudis had sent everything they had...we wouldn't last long.

"They are lost," I radioed to the commander. "For them" was my order.

At that moment, the southern battle ended with an Israeli defeat. What was left of the Saudi army, mostly stragglers and the wounded, remained. The commander saw his chance to avenge his friends back home, now at the bottom of the Atlantic. He surged forward with the entirety of the Netherland army and engaged them in Dubai.

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It was never close. We steamrolled them without losing a single man...then turned our heads south. The army was left standing at the border, facing into Saudi Arabia itself, with only the garrison at the capital left in front of them. The objective was the defeat of the Emirates, but they were as of yet distracted. If we could just take out the rest of them, we would not only have the Emirates, but all of Saudi Arabia.

I ordered them to charge the capital, the opposing forces met just outside of Riyadh. A perfect match.

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It was bloody, but we came out victorious. However, we had only taken two regions when the word came on the wires...the war was over, the UAE and the Saudis had surrendered. We could go no further, or else risk a larger war. So we took our winnings and cashed out.

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Here's what the ownership of Saudi Arabia looks like.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...enary/sp55.jpg

And here's our cohesive, easily manageable empire...http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ary/sp56-1.jpg

I think we just created East and West Arabia. xD And thanks to Israel not letting go of the regions they took, we also have a North and South UAE.

Though, we lost our economic ties with Canada. Thank God no one put any embargos on us. And we were kicked out of NATO. I say good riddance. We're going to take them over eventually anyway.

Do we still have Mauritania, or did we lose it?

We still have it, but our navy was taken out.

Fuck Canada (me saying that o_O), do we really need there ties?

/edit: How are we on renweable green fuel research?

Hmm...Guess we need to get cracking on our navy.

October 10, 2017

Flare, after what I just witnessed...

We don't need no steenkeeng navy!

Hey Mac, remember how you suggested we get some markets opened with Venezuela?

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How's about we just take the country. I think that's easier.

Let me explain how this awesomeness happened. I was working on the budget when out of nowhere, Saudi Arabia declares war on us again. Mind you, they have no army. So I say, "okay fine" and proceed to walk into their country and take two more regions...

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After that, Venezuela declares war on me, seeing my land grab. I pause the game as I see them ready to deploy troops to Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, and mainland Netherlands. I quickly called up the diplomatic relations window to see who hates them the most and might be able to give me a hand. The United States was at the top of the list.

They declared war on Venezuela and booted them out of our country while at the same time grabbing the half of SA that I didn't grab yet. It was hilarious, I was in a panic trying to occupy all the regions before the U.S. did while they did the same. They ended up getting this much of the pie.

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The U.S. took out the regiment that was going for our mainland, one portion of our army won a nailbiter in Mauritania (I was 100% sure it was a lost cause), and what was left of our troops in SA I sent to take over Venezuela itself because, having declared war on us, they left themselves wide open.

Now I think may be the time to rest and rebuild a bit. Maybe allow our relations to thaw some. We've made ridiculous gains today.

[Edit] I forgot to mention. During that madness a lot of countries made alliances. Finland and Sweden were two of them. This could be good for us, but it would mean instead of trying to take them over, we should get friendly with them, hopefully friendly enough to get in on the alliance.

The other alliances were Mali/Guatamala, Romania/Belarus, and Hungary/Slovenia.

I guess at this point we need to start reclaiming the old colonies in the Caribbean along with Suriname and Guyana.