January 11, 2030

I found the problem! And it was much much easier to fix than I thought it would be.

First, I'll tell you what I tried (also why it took so long for me to get this post up). Sorry if I don't address everyone's posted suggestions. I outlawed abortion, contraception, and anything else that would inhibit our people from churning out babies. That just made the problem worse. I got new common markets with Russia, Ukraine, Portugal, the US and a few others. I also added on economic partnerships to some of those. All in all the treaties gave us a modest increase in resource production, but we were still losing cash at an alarming rate. I tried dropping every one of our budget sliders to zero so I could have enough of a surplus to lower the tax and interest rates to try to stimulate the economy that way. That, in a word, sucked.

For each of these I let the game progress several years into the future. When I found that absolutely nothing I tried worked, I got desperate and looked over our territories. A last ditch effort would have to be made to stop the bleeding and make at least some of our debt back. This effort would be in the form of selling regions. In doing so I found the issue.

Ladies and gentlemen our problems resided in a malignant tumor known as the United Arab Emirates.

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Since they were the smallest regions we owned I decided to gain some clout with the Americans and sell them off cheap, at just $300 billion a piece. At first I tried for more, but it was a hard sell. The Americans agreed and our debt was immediately cut from $1.6 trillion to a more manageable $700 billion. Then I noticed something else. Our deficit had gone from nearly $102 billion, down to $15 billion, and dropping. The upkeep of those three tiny regions must have been so damn high that it was sucking nearly $100 billion out of our treasury a month to support their environment, education, infrastructure...everything.

With just a little tweaking of the budget, and maybe some taxes applied to some resources (oil) we'll be back into a surplus and ready to rebuild our military.

In other news, Venezuela continues to get hit with terrorism and assassinations almost on a daily basis. What remains of them anyway, the coast that Japan is occupying.

And here is the current economic situation as requested:
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After the selloff, our relations with the United States skyrocketed. At which point I saw it logical to take this next course of action. I hope you're all happy.

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Well, from what I've seen (Dubai), UAE IS an expensive place....so it does make sense..

I do not like it at all good sir. Great empires can only be forged in the fires of adversity and conflict, not the gentle winds of peace.
We should declare war on them immediately.

Yeah, go ahead and declare war on the United States. See how long we last. =P

Yeah...no. Especially since they just assumed our debt.

:)

Yup, we're officially out of debt and making money now! I'm working on some new designs for our army units as we speak. Also, I put our covert ops on vacation to save some cash for the time being.

December 5, 2031

Our economy is booming right now. We have money coming out our ears. I have increased all our important budget sliders back to max for now. At this rate we'll be able to build our African invasion force in just about two-three years if we get the blueprints right. I also opened our borders and changed number of children per family to unlimited. Now, just as long as our new ally doesn't do anything stu...

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God damnit.

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Here we go again. They wasted no time in assaulting South America's newly built navies and sending them all to the bottom of the ocean. Russia once again began it's pursuit, but the war (like the last one) stayed exclusively to the ocean. In its midst, China also declared war on Venezuela, bombarding an area occupied by Japan, which shouldn't bode well for the future.

Also,
-South Korea allied with Japan
-Chile allied with Colombia and Liberia, I'm assuming to support their drug trade
-Belgium allied with Denmark

This is shaping up to be quite the showdoAUGH I'M HIT!

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I guess maybe aligning ourselves with an aggresively suicidal country wasn't such a good idea. We have also taken a failed assassination attempt from Tuvalu and the Central African Republic, and failed sabotages from Guinea in which we caught the saboteurs. They are now being probed for information...with extreme prejudice.

This is getting pretty heated, and if it continues like it did with the UAE and Venezuela, we have a whole mess of terrorism attempts about to come at us. And maybe even war. My honest suggestion, and we do have the money to do this, would be to begin researching nuclear weapons and developing our missiles. No one would attack us because they would have to face the U.S., and when our missiles are done they wouldn't touch us.

Unless you favor first building up our conventional forces.

Wouldn't that make us hated by the world though getting nukes?

Who needs conventional forces when you've got the US as your ally? Nukes and missiles!

Also, if we're going to take all of Africa I suggest we start with Egypt.

EDIT: Maybe, but as you can see we're already pretty hated.

I think we should use our covert forces to deliberately goad China and Japan into war with each other. If China and Japan got many allies into both sides of the conflict, and if we stayed neutral in the massive cataclysmic warfare that ensued, we'd be in an ideal position to pick up the pieces.

In the meantime, I'm still a fan of Operation: transform West Africa into South Amsterdam.

Today is a glorious day for our military, because today we roll out the next generation of ground units, aircraft, and naval vessels that our great nation has been so deprived of. The lineup includes:

-Geminex-I Infantry Vehicle
-TEV-I Tank
-Sifright-I Artillery Gun
-Dracorian Attack Helicopter
-MAC-I Fighter Aircraft
-HAWK-I Attack Aircraft
-Solid Snake Frigate
-Pillar of Oster Destroyer
-Gregness Aircraft Carrier
-Pinkleton Class Attack Submarine
-Flarecobra Ballistic Missile Submarine