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I have Aluminum, Cattle, Pigs, Coal, Iron, Lumber, Marble, Oil (default), Rubber (default), Wheat, Spices and Wine. Bonuses are: Construction, Asphalt, Automobiles and Steel. It gives me a nice overall mix I find, population increase, infra reduction, happiness/income increase. However Spices and Wine are just fillers, till I can find a fish and water trade.

Whats the upkeep for them?

You can only do 'non-destructive operations' at the moment.

Good stuff. I was looking for those two as well. Accepted.

How high would you rate Oil and Rubber as a starting resource?

Threat level IRL is public knowledge. DEFCON I agree with.

I, ruler of the nation of Akira, officially surrender to GOONs. After fighting a triple team attack for the last 3 days, and getting no assistance despite requesting it from my alliance, I find myself with no other option. I'll start to decommission my military ASAP.

They could escape in a plane, or a boat! But I do agree boarder walls should do somthing to help with spies, but perhaps they should be renamed imigration control or somthing?

Then it would just be outsourced instead.

It doesn't change your government style. It changes the DESIRED government.

I thought that at first, but having a happiness penalty, in effect, is an upkeep cost. Your income is decreased x amount depending on the happiness loss from the level you selected. I agree about the religion, government and DEFCON levels however. It would make more sense if religion and government changes took more than 1 update to become to become active.

The wording seems fine to me. They are more or less exactly the same levels the UK has in real life, just worded slightly differently, and I expect exactly the same as the real world United States levels. Personally I'll never drop my threat level below substantial, even during peace times. Its worth 1 lost happiness to me to have my counter-intelligence agencies working at 100% capacity to deter terrorist attacks, despite having gone the better part of a year without entering into hostilities with any other nation in the game. If a newb panics and makes a mistake then its bad for him, but he will learn for next time. Although I'm sure it will be fully explained in the next edition of the new player guide.

No, they are both different systems. In real life they are linked somewhat, but one is not totally dependant on the other. You could be at Severe threat level, like the UK currently is, but not have your military on full alert.

Not the best. Not the worst. I myself have gold and silver, and dont have to much of a problem getting trades. I'm sure you will be fine to.

Industrial Just Under 6k Yes and no. I dont pay the real cash for them myself, but I buy them from others for CN cash.