Dano get those compariosons up again
60 compared to 53:
Population (note symbol at end means compared to rate of change last session)
China - 381,430,000 - decrease of 8 million - (Note see below)
Indonesia - 211,058,000 - increase of 29 million + (Note see below)
Georgia - 207,141,000 - increase of 16 million -
France - 134, 117,000 - increase of 14 million +
Finland - 112,198,000 - increase of 10 million +
Prussia - 89,250,000 - increase of 7 million -
Norway - 83,953,000 - increase of 10 million =
Africa - 83,121,000 - increase of 6 million =
Germany - 82,765,000 - increase of 6.5 million -
Japan - 75,186,000 - decrease of 0.5 million -
America - 55,000,000 - increase of 4.5 million +
Thoughts:
A Note on China. China's population decreased by a total of 8 million, However of that 8 million 9.2 million were given to Indonesia in provinces. The result is that China is in fact NOT honoring its treaty, AGAIN, and has had a growth of 1 million in his other provinces, and that is while a war rages AND his country is a 1/3 occupied by rebels.
A Note of Indonesia subtract roughly 9 million from Indonesia to get real growth rate, which is slightly higher than last sessions due to tech giving increased birthrate.
Overall, the world is progressing as expected, steady growth on most nations, some increasing either from tech or increased immigration, while those that decreased it could be attributed to the War in China.
It should be noted that Norway population growth did not decrease with the changes to life ratings in provinces (aka edit/fix) which means Norway's good health care is doing alot!
Another note would Japan is decreasing, again ran into rebellion problems, as well as the war in China. Can the Japanese government ever please its people enough to stop tidal wave of pops from leaving for greener pastures?
Factories
Indonesia - 66 - increase of 21
France - 31 - increase of 1
China - 31 - increase of 2
Georgia - 30 - increase of 1
Norway - 28 - increase of 6
Finland - 25 - increase of 13
America - 22 - increase of 8
Japan - 22 - increase of 6
Germany - 21 - increase of 5
Africa - 20 - increase of 4
Prussia - 15 - increase of 1
Thoughts:
Indonesia still in the lead in sheer number of factories, and after getting interventionists in power for one election about a third of those managed to be upgraded to 2nd level.
France and China tied for 2nd, however again France made little no progress this session, poor France.
Chinese Industrialization efforts we halted when it attempted to switch its government to liberals. That is when the rebellions started. Needless to say shortly there after China also found itself at war with most the known world.
Finland came like a bat out of hell and built up 13 new factories, likely related to the mass amounts of resources he acquired from China. I expect further growth next session.
Italy and Norway both made progress too, 8 and 6 respectively, I just hope Italy has the pops to put in those new factories!
Africa finally made some more progress, maybe just maybe the dark continent can catch up to the rest of the world?
Prussia, last this round, is really stagnating compared to it Finnish neighbor, or is it a hidden industrial strength hiding in upgrades to existing ones?
Army/Navy
China - 207 / 19 - change of 131 / -8
Georgia - 150 / 49 - change of 78 / 0
France - 82 / 49 - change of 31 / 9
Japan - 52 / 52 - change of 32 / -7
Prussia - 35 / 9 - change of 19 / 0
Finland - 35 / 0 - change of -1 / 0
Indonesia - 28 / 80 - change of 3 / -14
America - 19 / 116 - change of 2 / 67
Germany - 15 / 12 - change of -43 / 0
Africa - 14 / 7 - change of -1 / 0
Norway - 9 / 40 - change of -29 / 2
New Category!
Manpower/Leadership
France - 1349 / 18
Georgia - 932 / 7
Finland - 748 / 143
Norway - 440 / 99
Germany - 425 / 106
America - 237 / 191
China - 264 / 31
Prussia - 260 / 60
Africa - 180 / 64
Indonesia - 16 / 17
Japan - 7 / 2
Thoughts:
China as expected has vastly increased his army seeing as he in in the middle of life or death war! Part of those new divisions are likely reserves, but that still a fair number of fresh divisions thrown into the meat grinder. That said, China seems to be fairly low on manpower, a few more major skirmishes with Georgia and he will run into a problem.
Georgia too same situation, part reserves part fresh meat. Georgia however has a fair bit of manpower and will be able to take the fight to enemy even if it does cost lives.
France is run by the AI so its doing what AI's do, however it is at war with China and does seem to be doing an OK job on it own landing.
Nothing much else is new, Italy redeployed its navy apparently, it may have been upgrading to a steamer fleet already! Norway and Germany reduction of armies are due to demobilization.
National Rankings!
----------Prestige/Military/Industry
Indonesia 696 / 138 / 2883
China 695 / 234 / 1809
France 223 / 203 / 1129
Georgia 550 / 221 / 795
America 582 / 128 / 825
Germany 498 / 69 / 742
Norway 174 / 73 / 890
Prussia 223 / 57 / 655
Finland 617 / 63 / 362
Japan 42 / 93 / 492
Africa -20 / 26 / 507
Summary:
Indonesia seems to have moved to the top of the ladder with lead of 1 prestige, and nearly 1000 industry points on china, approx a 2.5 times increase industrial capacity. Much of that is likely related to the new level 3 railways across all of Indonesia in addition to a 50% increase in the base number of factories, and upgrading about 1/3 of total number of factories. As fast as this industrialization seems to be going, will it be able to keep up in the sessions to come? I think not, as many of the locales where factories have been built have filled up already, limiting future expansion greatly. With all this industrial might Indonesia was contracted to build the great canals of Panama! It is now open to all the democracy loving nations of the world!
China did quite well for its self this session considering it was at war with most the world and having huge rebellion problems. It still managed a 50% increase in industrial score since last session. Will it be able to keep up this pace in the years to come?
France still managing to hold on to third place industrially, impressive considering it has made no really attempts at industrializing at all in the last 2 sessions!
Georgian industry is chugging along, No longer a major contender but holding out in the 2nd tier industrial powers such as America, Norway and Germany. Prussia seems to be sitting on the line between the second tier and third tier industrial powers, which are Africa, Japan and Finland. How will these tiers look like in the future? Will 2nd tiers stay neck in neck with each other or will they be contending with new arrivals from the lower tiers?
But when we come to military powers Georgia is no longer 2nd tier, they are practically leaders in the category! Will Georgia turn into a soviet union, immense military power with and ever falling behind industrial base? Who knows what one will do with that power. They may take a different route and offer their services to the highest bidder in exchange for desperately needed industrial machines.
And prestige! We see Finland for some reason that no one knows, is in the top tier of prestigious nations! One can only wonder what back room political skills they posses in order to pull such a feat off!
Indeed this session was quite interesting, progress for many, even for those knee deep bodies! What will happen in the sessions to come? Will China Fall? Will Georgia be left behind? Will Norway continue outpace America? Will the Dark Continent shape up follow the rest of the world into the modern era, or is it destined to gobbled up as in history? And finally are Finnish performing untold sexual favors for prestige?
Stayed Tuned to find out!