It continues...

Ironically despite the fact that I was trying to take over the world I still put forth several UN resolutions and they were all passed. I achieved Universal Suffrage, and open markets to name a few of the global achievements that we championed. I lead the other nations by only a small margin but have overwhelming power and still advocate for peace. As a person I almost feel like a hypocrite but as a nation I feel like we are doing this to survive. Oddly it feels like being the United States, in both the past and present. This mentality reflects our warlike mentality at the moment much like the warlike mentality we have as a nation, in reality and in the game. Certain sects of our government advocate for world peace while others (like the president) are working on a war. This paradox almost makes you wonder about the wellbeing of the world and is it healthy for the economy when you have two competing perspectives that operate as opposites in the economic and political realms. They play such a huge role and so interconnected that what happens in the economic world will affect the political realm, and vice versa. In my game of civilization it is almost like the US entering Iraq, engaging itself in this war, and its work on securing a safe, peaceful environment. But these two competing agendas actually work well together. It diversifies the economy so that goods and services are not solely focused on particular thing. Many countries it seems, especially the losers of wars, focus their entire economy onto the war effort and ignore other once thriving industries that don’t aid this purpose. Recuperating from such a blow to their economy is a long and difficult journey that puts that particular nation at a halt for a little while. At this point there is no challenge to my status that I can basically be acquiring whatever I want without any kind of formidable power strong enough to deal with, much like the United States about 10 years ago.