OT-RL treaties and Ranks

[Randallw]

Heres a list of the top empires by default as they have Stellar Torpedoes (aks: Nuclear Weapons)

1. US.
2. Russia }
3. China } I have my doubts on China and russias exact ranks as one has a large army but no money for anything. The other also has a large army but it is hopelessly out of date.
4. Britain
5. France

The top 5 also have space programs (Wormholes perhaps?)

6. India
7. Pakistan
8. Israel (I am assuming the rumours are true)
9. North Korea (Are the rumours true or not?)

I would like to place Germany in the top 10 but I do not believe they are allowed Nuclear weapons.

[Grauzone]

Originally posted by Randallw:
I would like to place Germany in the top 10 but I do not believe they are allowed Nuclear weapons.

no nukes in germany. we buy our enemies, not bomb they out (more civilized art of war) in near future we have also no nuclear power plants (greens in our goverment)

is this rank only military or complete score?

if military: germany is definitively not in the top 10.
if complete: maybe in the first 5.

Alliances: wanted Partnership with all EU-Members + T/R-Alliance with whole world + Military Alliance with NATO-Members.

only my opinion.

[Ruatha]

If you coun't resources and research (1 score per point in game) Japan would be fairly high I'd guess.

[Aiken]

Some figures:

Top ten nations/Military power (by military expenditures):
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/mil_exp_dol_fig

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1.	United States  $276.7 billion (FY99 est.)		

2.	China	         $55.91 billion (FY02)		

3.	France	   $46.5 billion (2000)		

4.	Japan	         $39.52 billion (FY02)		

5.	Germany	   $38.8 billion (2002)		

6.	United Kingdom $31.7 billion (2002)		

7.	Italy	         $20.2 billion (2002)		

8.	Saudi Arabia   $18.3 billion (FY00)		

9.	Brazil	   $13.408 billion (FY99)		

10.	Korea, South   $13,094.3 million (FY02)

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Top ten nations/Economical power (by gross domestic product): http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_gdp_ppp

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1.	United States   $9,612.7 billion		

2.	China	          $5,019.4 billion		

3.	Japan	          $3,394.4 billion		

4.	India	          $2,395.4 billion		

5.	Germany	    $2,062.2 billion		

6.	France	    $1,426.6 billion		

7.	United Kingdom  $1,404.4 billion		

8.	Italy	          $1,363.0 billion		

9.	Brazil	    $1,299.4 billion		

10.	Russia	    $1,219.4 billion

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[Randallw]

Originally posted by aiken:

8. Saudi Arabia $18.3 billion (FY00)

The're only so high because they export radioactives to the other empires.

[Aiken]

Btw, how can I calculate research and intel (especially) rank of real-world empire? What kind of measures can be used? Amount of scientists and spies? Heh, I'd be a millionare if I were informed about total amount of CIA spies