Decomposition

There is no way that your bills should be higher than your income - -perhaps you have not paid bills in a few days? Also, get rid of that intelligence agency and replace with something giving you a population or income boost (and definitely get those labor camps).

I might go with wheat and aluminum - mainly because I've had such a tough time finding an aluminum trade in the past.

Hmmmm..... this is actually a good point. I had pretty much the same experience (i.e., the futility of attacking a 105 plane squadron). I guess my response is that this makes quad attacks and co-ordination with other attackers more important. Strategy and co-ordination should be important after all.

Given the current levels of global radiation it is impossible for you to have an environment score better than six (global radiation +1). If you go by the number of stars then you can have, at best, 2.5 stars. Global radiation is coming down (slowly now) and should drop below 5 in another 10 days or so - so your environment should improve more then.

An additional relevant point is to perhaps not be a member of NPO if you want your population to rise

Buy infra, trade for population boosting resources, and (eventually) buy population boosting improvements and wonders.

Also make sure to use all your aid slots - not being 100% active in tech dealing is a sin

Kinda weird of you to ask for advice, have lots of players take the time to give you advice, and then ignore almost all of it.

Except that the nation is not even close to being large enough to even be considered for the Senate on the black team. Remember you have to be in the top 100 in your color to be considered.

+ 1 environment provides a significant boost to your population (assuming you are not already at the best possible level).

This! +1 Environment is much better than +1 Happiness (other than for very small nations perhaps??)

No - since the environment penalty now has much bigger ramifications you want to probably alternate between Democracy (for tax collection) and Capitalism (for buying infra).

Monarchy as government is also not ideal.

You should be able to find trades on your own - without a trade circle. Why do you have a clinic and barracks? These are very suboptimal improvements. Also - you need to start selling tech - you could be making a ton of money that way. There is a great shortage of tech sellers.

You have way too much land. My population density is over 50/mile without negative effects. I see that you have access to water so there should be no negative repercussions until you get well over 50/mile. Much better to spend your money on infra.

I seem to recall that each environment point has a substantial negative impact on population - don't know the exact figure but for my nation an increase of 1 in environment lowers my population by 1.6% (fiddled with my government settings a bit to find out). So if your environment will improve by 5 once the radiation dies down again then you should see an increase in population of around 8%.

Unless the environment bonus to your pop is bigger than the population loss from having a border wall.

Aid sent

Thanks to all our opponents for their nukes, their good humor, and the incredibly fair peace terms offered to us.

He could have deleted the messages in his inbox which means that you would not have them in your outbox.

Buy or delete some infra/tech.

Welcome to the fight. Hail NADC. :D

Enough time for elaborate arguments in the Boiler Room though.

Such courage! Thanks for a moment of amusement in these serious time. Especially funny to see from a self-described gun-nut.

So much cowardice in one post. (or is this some form of elaborate headfake that will result in a massive DoW in 10 minutes time). I have lost all faith in the game with this single post. Shame on all of you!