Update Fifteen: 1853 A.D.
A sure sign of modernity in Scandinavia, the Prime Minister has opened its doors to economic activity with long-time rival, the Danish. Trade, though no where near the low-tariff level of inter-ECC trade, slowly begins to grow around the port of Stockholm as Danish merchants look towards Scandinavia instead of Germany and France for raw resources. In return, Danish manufacturers have a whole new market to sell their products, increasing both economies substantially (+economies to both).
The Germans are also attempting to catch up with EEC rivals, the French and British, in manufacturing capacity. The Germans had just gone through nearly six years ago an economic recession that hit the factories particularly hard, but since then production has only been increasing. However, much of that success has much to do with French corporations who outsource factories to Germany where wage laws are less strict and production is cheaper. While the capital generated in Germany goes straight back to major French corporations like Renault, the Germans do gain the essential factory skills and ethics.
British naval expansion continues. The ports of Southampton, Plymouth and Newport are transformed into mega-ports, sometimes building a whole battlecruiser in less then a month. The high demand for battlecruisers placed by the government has also created thousands of new jobs, as well as boosting the peoples morale with a new and strong fleet protecting the island (+ confidence). In addition to the creation of this new fleet, the British have also been concentrating on creating a surplus of income by selling many war bonds to its people (+ economy). British coastal defenses are also beefed up, becoming some of the most technologically advanced fortifications in the world.
Likewise, the French have also been looking towards port production, but have had a rather slower and more relaxed approach then the British. Instead, the French continue their economic domination of Germany and most of Italy, along with central South America. French industry is among one of the most advanced in the world, though it does lack in shipbuilding efficiency, at least to the extent that the British and Danish have. But what it lacks in port facilities it makes up for in raw resources. After having conquered many Teuton lands and Piedmont of Northern Italy, the French have virtually become self-sufficient in its resource needs. Though this is not expected to last long, coal and iron ore is not particularly abundant in the country, and much of the steel production is being done in Iberia.
If there is an award to give any nation for remaining traditional and stable, that award would have to go to the Spanish. Their economic way of life has been the same for many, many years, and yet they continue to humbly compete on the world market. Industry is not particularly strong, but it is highly balanced with the service and agricultural economies, making Spain a bulls eye for foreign investment. The Spanish have a steady market in South America, an economic zone that she has had for centuries. New, though, is the steel industry that seems to have been subsidized heavily and what is becoming one of the top steel industries in the world. The Spanish Metal and Steel Corporation operates the most extensive steel factory system in the world, challenging the industrial steel giants of France, Egypt and China. Further cooperation with the EEC and a slow isolation from ACE has also helped Spain come to terms with its European neighbors, though at the expense of a long, traditional and prosperous relationship with Egypt.
The EEC and the African Union continues to work in coordination with each other, the AU providing cheap raw resources to the European industry machine, while the EU is providing manufactured goods and industrial support to help build an industrial base within the African Union. The AU has been searching greatly for a way to become self-sufficient, economically, for the past decade and has only recently turned away from Egypt and towards the Europeans for help. Aid has been flowing in constantly from the whole of the EEC, but most notable are the British and Danish aid. Egypt, meanwhile, has cut trade to the Africans and is putting forth for the whole of the Democratic League to place sanctions on the southern nation.
For unknown reasons, really, the huge Arabian army has been mobilized as ordered by the government. The troops have been equipped with the most modern of weapons, also, with submachine guns, accurate rifles, and Hanu Motors Trucks and armored cars.
Speaking of mobilization, one of the largest armies in the world, the Chinese, have begun to undergo mobilization itself. Because of the sheer size of the Chinese military, it may take years for the completion of such mobilization. This decision has come from the threat posed by the Pacificans who have amassed their army at the Northern Chinese border in response to the Chinese support for Mongolian secession. Likewise, the Pacificans begin mobilization as well, and has added to the ranks of the border forces. Peace in the region hangs by a thread, and should that thread break, the world may see cataclysmic losses on both sides.
The Imperial Island of Madagascar, after undergoing democratic reforms nearly five years ago and embracing a more free and capitalist economy, is experiencing somewhat of an economic awakening. Factories are springing up throughout the small country, though they are relatively inferior compared to the Egyptian or European industry, they are nonetheless a step towards industrialization. The economy is growing rapidly in other areas as well, including agriculture and raw resource production, sighting timber and rubber as burgeoning industries. The Imperial Republic, though, is much too small in both size and population and limited in national resources to ever really compete globally on the economic scale, and so this has many people within the nation talking about a reunification with the Democratic Republic, by any means necessary.
The war in South America continues to pacify. The Brazilians, sporting the French-trained and equipped dAnarchie Brigade, which won some amazing victories against the Amazonians, have made peace with its Bolivian neighbor. Meanwhile, Amazonia is near capitulation as Brazil makes gains as well as an Ozeania attack from the south through Bolivia. Peru has completely fallen to the Ozeanians. Pan-Columbia, meanwhile is still having trouble fighting off a small Amazonian army in its eastern province.
In the north, really the more important war between USSA, Ozeania and Panama, a cease-fire has been reached between the opposing parties as peace talks continue. The peace treaty will have profound consequences on both parties, defining the amount of influence that Ozeania and USSA will both have on the smaller states of North and South America.
NPC Notices
Trade Routes
Sumer: Russia (1/3), Arab Emirates (1/3)
Egypt: Morocco (1/3), Sahara (1/3), Arab Emirate (2/3), Spain (0/3), China (2/3), Congo (2/3)
Africa Union: Arabia (0/3)
Arab Emirate: Egypt (2/3), African Union (0/3), Russia (1/3)
Imperial Madagascar: Egypt (2/3), AU (2/3), Britain (2/3)
USSA: New Canada (0/3), USSM (2/3), Quebec (1/3)
Ozeania: China (2/3), Pacifica (2/3), Egypt (1/3)
China: Sinhala (1/3), Egypt (2/3), Ozeania (1/3), Sumer (1/3)
Uruguay: Brazil (1/3)
Russia: Uruguay (1/3), Arab Emirates (1/3)
Sioux: USSA (1/3)
Sinhala: Egypt (1/3), China (1/3)
France: Britain (2/3), Denmark (1/3)
Britain: France (2/3)
Spain: France (1/3)
Denmark: France (2/3)
From the Mod
When you train your army or navy to well trained, you must always keep a growing economy. So for those who tried to train their navy and it brought their economy to stable, I canceled it as it is against the rules.
Histograph Largest Ports in the World
1. Haifa, Sumer
2. Memphis, Egypt
3. London, Britain
4. Port Sayid, Egypt
5. Boston, USSA
6. Newport, Britain
7. Bordeaux, France
8. Halifax, USSA
9. St. Petersburg, Russia
10. Shanghai, China