I figure this is a horrific idea....but since the rest of South America and Africa have some really inconvenient alliances - what's going on in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania?

Let's take over the land down under or even Antarctica if we can.
Penguin shock troops!Fire Support Kings
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Artillery Emperors
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Oh god it's Chill Penguin. The Reploids are coming! Maverick uprising!

Anyway. Yeah I like the idea of going after Oceania. But I say we start with New Zealand and work west. That way we have a nearby base.

By the way, what is the Vietnam/Korea/Thailand situation looking like?

Funny story. (our save file is still intact, before anyone panics)

Just for fun I tried test firing our nukes at a couple random countries. The game crashed to desktop. I turned the graphics settings all the way down. It still crashed. I transfered the save to my laptop. It wouldn't work properly because my cd drive is shot. I went back to the desktop and tried updating my graphics driver to see if that changed anything. Nvidia's site is undergoing maintenance.

Grrrrrrrrr....

Next update will be up whenever I remedy the problem. Which will be whenever A) Nvidia finishes their work or B) when my new cd drive arrives.

In the meantime, I dropped the tax rate back from 84% to 78% bringing our approval rating above 70% for the first time since the Mauritania war. And I kept our interest rate steady at 45% to compensate for the inflation, but as of right now we're thriving.

...We're taking over three-quarters of everyone's wages?
And we're still in office? With a seventy percent approval rating, at that?!?

...I guess this game won't be winning any awards for realism anytime soon. =)

Can't you see? We've rallied the entire nation to our manifest destiny. We are the master race and proper owners of the rest of the world. Flyers showcasing our massive army are posted everywhere, and brainwashing movies abound in our theaters. The only thing we're not doing is hauling off that disapproving 30% to jail.

Or it could be that we have a single party democracy, making it impossible for us to be thrown out by a vote. But, that's not important...

I have a 70% approval rating with a 60% income tax rate.

However, I have the best {education, health care, infrastructure, environment} and the lowest {corruption, death rate} in basically the world. All without propaganda. Beyond that, we're nearly self-sufficient; our imports total less than 10 billion. So a lot of stuff is dirt cheap for my people.

So yeah; taxes aren't evil when they get to where they're going. Of my 300 billion budget, I'm losing 100 thousand to corruption. That's effective use of funds :D

Update:

I think the source of the problem is AVG antivirus I have running on this rig. It thinks the SuperPower 2 background process is a virus and placed part of it in the virus vault. I'm dealing with it as we speak, hopefully this will have us up and running.

This is obviously the work of covert agents in our borders. The people demand retribution!

Bob: I've had that exact false positive, and it can be dealt with. If you run into difficulty just toss me a message.

If you knew me personally, you would know that I have been fixing computers since I was in diapers. I've done everything to break them and learned every way to bring them back to life. I know about drivers, blue screens, hardware faults, software corruption, network security...everything.

I have no clue what the fuck is wrong with SuperPower.

I've updated the graphics card driver, sound card driver, DirectX, I uninstalled OpenSSH because I thought the daemon might be interfering with the game's process, lowered the graphics settings, tried one nuke at a time, tried it with different countries, tried it on different game speeds, reinstalled the game, uninstalled my antivirus, patched the game...

And it still crashes the moment anyone fires off a nuke. I am completely out of ideas. No one even mentions the problem on the game's forum. I've played it on this same computer for years and this is the first time I've had a problem. For now I'll try it on my buggy laptop just for the sake of getting some updates going. You think it might have to do with Windows XP SP3? That's the only major change I've made to the system. I wonder if there's a way to roll back the service pack.