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Maxifaer wrote:

As someone with bad comprehension, is this a yes or no to selling water?

We give water to them to sell. We aren't forcing them to pay for it.

It’s easy to spend other people money - a quote, which isn’t mine, but I like it and wanted to share it with y’all

Kathol rift wrote:

We are a moneyless society. Poverty genuinely does not exist here as poverty and wealth are both products of capital. We manufacture a surplus and what we cannot produce, we import. Anyone is free to come get what they need at our distribution centers, and the hoarding of unneeded surplus by individuals is prohibited. We lack a traditional government and bureaucracy, so that's pretty much ruled out. Thanks to our ironclad conscription policies, we guarantee everybody works for a while at least, so nobody gets a free ride. And history has generally shown that capitalist competition does not breed innovation so much as war does, and war is a concept with which we are very familiar, so we stay far ahead of the curve on invention and improvement without any thought for the marketability of our creations.

We are definitely not a perfect society, far from it in fact. But we can at least say that our economic system is not one of our issues.

Jar Wattinree wrote:

*Metal Gear intensifies*

That's a nice argument senator, why don't you back it up with a source?

Obviously an OOC message.

Stralstein wrote:

Stralestein has joined The Z'vo Union of Maxifaer as its territory

Wait I thought I was the one getting territory

Kathol rift wrote:

We are massive hypocrites, just look at the fact that we're functionally a monarchy that constantly denounces the concept of monarchy

I feel like this is an important message to bring up in this civil debate over which nation is best (it's us)

Kathol rift wrote:

*unveils the Kathol military-industrial-cultural complex*

A weapon to surpass Metal Gear
Nah, they had a dictator. We just have an unelected autocrat. Completely different!

And we have an "appointed" leader.

Kathol rift wrote:

And history has generally shown that capitalist competition does not breed innovation so much as war does, and war is a concept with which we are very familiar, so we stay far ahead of the curve on invention and improvement without any thought for the marketability of our creations.

You know, I had like an hour rant about this very thing to myself last night, when thinking about how to best deal with Alerusia's abnormal and rapid technological innovation.
The solution I came up with was that the Alerusian government would pay for any innovations that show up to get pursued... and if you refuse to take the money, they'll take the technology anyways.
That and if a technology is important enough the Government will just flat out repeal your patent and allow everyone to use it to develop their own stuff.

Combine that with the fact that the Alerusians had to pretty rapidly advance to out-pace the freeze-over of their continent and to ensure that they were utterly prepared if someone came to their new continent and tried to take it from them... and you get a generally rapid advancement of technology across the board, I'd think.

Mestovakia wrote:

The biggest question I ask myself: What do I want to be? It is an unanswerable question, for I do not know.

You want to be a mining colony of Maxifaer ;D

Kathol rift wrote:

*unveils the Kathol military-industrial-cultural complex*

A weapon to surpass Metal Gear

A cardboard box!

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I kind of, almost want to go to Zvezdara, Serbia