Is it possible to conquer other countries or have them destroyed?
Also, how realistic is the economy? Are there booms and busts that are not created by the program? Does as a massive war in your territory cause economic devastation?

Can there be civil wars?

It is possible for countries to lose all their regions and thus be conquered. It has happened to Belgium (split between the UK and Holland) and recently Slovenia by Croatia. There can't be civil wars as such but citizens can start resistance movements in conquered regions to try to return them to their original country. This has the potential to even bring back completely conquered nations.

The economy does fluctuate, responding to what happens in the game, not a pre-set program. There are several kinds of raw materials, such as grain and iron, which regions have in different quantities, which have to be harvested by companies which then sell them on the market to other, manufacturing, companies that turn them into finished goods which are then sold to either citizens or governments, depending on what they are. The quality of the goods depends on the skill level of the workers. The player who owns the company decides what price to sell his products, but has to take into account what other companies of the same product are selling at, so it works like a real market. Players buy things with their wages, paid to them by the company they work for. Governments raise capital by taxation, which comes in different forms, income tax and vat on different products. The governments of each country sets that countries tax system. There is also a monetary market, where gold (the base in-game currency which you can buy with real money as well as gain in different ways, awards) and the various currencies of the different countries, such as the UK pound and the US dollar, can be exchanged, at rates that change due to market pressures.

War can damage a country's infrastructure, since if a region changes hands, the two types of builds there can be; hospitals and defence systems (though again they come in different qualities), are destroyed. No damage is done though if the attack is not successful, though the defending country may have had to expend manpower and resources (usually weapons) to win the battle, though the same is true of the attacker, and if the attack was unsuccessful they expended their resources for nothing.

I also enjoy eRepublik. There are many ways to get involved; you can serve in a 'military,' start your own business, run for public office, etc, like Lizard said. You can be as involved or detached as you want.

Ah a fellow eRepublikian! What country are you a citizen of in it? You're real one? I'm in the UK, as I am in real life.

sorry your not you're

The US, true to life.

Aha, I fought against you lot today, when the Royal Navy sent me to fight for the Hungarians defending their Chinese region.

Did you send that friend request, DanEcht?

seems very interesting!
it seems like the stength of a country is based on its followers.
how should ichoose a country?

Well I chose the UK since I live there but when you join you can chose any country to join (as long as it has been created). If you want to join the strongest country then you can check before hand what the population of each country is, though the strength of a country also depends on the fighting experience of the citizens of the country (you gain fighting experience for training and fighting) and the strength of the countries economy which is itself heavily dependant upon the quantity of resources in the regions of the country. Note once you have chosen what your starting country (and region) is, it is possible to move to other countries, and even to apply to change citizenship to that country (where you are in the game and what your in-game nationality is do not have to be the same), but you will have to buy moving tickets (1 of the products companies make) in order to do so.

Remember if you are going to join can you please use the link I provided above and below, it will help me out, thank you.

http://www.erepublik.com/en/referrer/Cecil+Lizard

Yes, that friend request is from me.

A lot of people choose the country they actually live in; others live in a country they like. You can move around in-game and change your citizenship, so your decision isn't permanent.

Thanks DanEcht. Friend request accepted, even if you are an imperialist yank. :-) Having fun "liberating" India? ;-)

Now that you mention it, yes. Yes I am. :)

this sounds quite interesting... let me ask - are there 'ages'... another words does the game get re-set or will it just continue... so a country that grows and wins a lot will basically have a huge advantage going forward.

also - could one of you eRepublicans send us a list of the top10 countries? just so we can see if it is somewhat reflective of real life or not?

i might join... thanks for sharing it

No. Name Population number
1 Poland 40326
2 USA 25825
3 Spain 21347
4 Serbia 20162
5 Russia 15929
6 Hungary 15849
7 Croatia 13350
8 Romania 12533
9 Brazil 11052
10 Indonesia 8124

Not as interesting a game as it sounds.
Just good enough to spend around 2 min/day

It seems cool!

No, there aren't ages, it just continues, so countries can "carry" there size forward to carry on becoming bigger. However it is no guarantee, there is the ebb and flow of nations, as well alliances forming between nations, grouping into coalitions. For example, I hear before my time in the game, Indonesia was rampaging through the US. Now however, I read in a in-game newspaper, they have fallen on harder times.

There are rankings of the countries, but there is more than one way to rank them, such as Experience points and number of companies and so on. However I will copy here the current top10 in terms of population:

1: Poland 40326
2: USA 25825
3: Spain 21347
4: Serbia 20162
5: Russia 15929
6: Hungary 15849
7: Croatia 13350
8: Romania 12533
9: Brazil 11052
10: Indonesia 8124

Though with new joining all the time, and people moving around, these do change. As you can see it is not very much reflective of real life populations, though this not necessarily a bad thing, and there are always attempts to get people to join one country or another. Also the world looks rather odd, with regions, having started out in the countries there are in real life swapping hands. Also there is the practice of "corridors", where since countries can only attack regions which border their current regions, sometimes countries allow other countries to "conquer" some of their regions to allow the other country a border with a third country, so the second country can attack the third country. Then when they have take some of the third countries regions they allow the first country to "reconquer" the regions they gave them, leaving the third with "islands" of territory, disconnected from their homeland. This explains the Hungarian region in China, or the Americans being in India, which I mentioned earlier.

As hellalt says, it doesn't have to take up too much of your time. ;-)

Though there are the forums as well.

Hey DanEcht, your country's attempt to take Heilongjiang from Hungary failed! Good attempt though. :-)