#aregentina

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Diego Maradona (1960-2020)

Argentina vs. England (1986)

[dogsagainstthehatman]

Why I hate Argentina is Victoria 3

There is a meme about a monkey who learns about Argentinas economic system and kills itself and Paradox takes that to heart.

I thought Argentina would be a nice easy campaign slowly growing an economy out of the way in the nice resource rich Latin America. Mexico and Brazil have been some of my most relaxing campaigns.

And holy moley was I wrong.

Here is what I discovered.

1. Argentina has NO PEOPLE.

Normally the early game is pretty easy as you employ peasants who working anywhere offers a better life than subsistence farms. Since Argentina has no population it makes it hard to get demand for good.

However, everything is expensive in the country. The price of goods is based on a ratio of supply and demand (no duh.)

So that means normally a deficit of 30 furniture is wonderful. However in 1836 Argentina a 30 deficit of furniture means your standard of living plummets and people get mad.

Well what's the big deal? You've a degree in economics, a high price is an indicator to build more furniture manufacturing right?

Well if you build more furniture manufacturing it gives you 45 more furniture. Now the price of furniture plummets.

Not to mention almost every building employs around 5000 people per level.

So you put half your available workforce to work building furniture, the price plummets, and now people are getting fired.

Oh also the price of wood just skyrocketed which makes the furniture manufacturing EVEN LESS PROFITABLE

Now of course the obvious solution is as their president said is for Argentinians to come on boats from Europe.

Right? Well Argentinains happen to be very racist. So the only people who can move there are Europeans. You can't not be racist due to the legacy slavery in the country.

Now okay, so let's employ the slaves Ibhear you say.

Well the slaves are a very small part of the population. Legacy slavery means we can't import slaves (which honestly may make some sense but it's not worth it in the game meta in my opinion.)

So you have all of the downsides of slavery and none of the good.

So, what does Argentina have going for it?

Well....you have a lot of natural infustructure. Which if you could build anything would be nice.

Also the literacy rate is actually kind of high. Literacy is important because it qualifies people for most lower strata jobs, which is good because you will be automating A LOT.

Anyway thank you for getting this far. This country is an absolute son of a bitch but it has become my pet project so I will give some updates.

[4busrda]

Mi decaimiento es emocional no físico.

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Vintage Coin Earrings from WorldTreasure

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rainy day in downtown Buenos Aires.

[4busrda]

Si lo hiciera todo bien, no seria yo.

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