You don’t know which country, its random.
You cannot leave this island, you cannot end your life, you cannot abdicate your position.
Your country is immune from military attacks for 10 years, its literally impossible. There’s a magic force field protecting the entire island and the entire airspace up to 41,000 ft (max civillian flight level) and 12 nautical miles sorrounding the island. Enemy military are unable to enter.
You cannot get kidnapped or killed or like fall into a coma, or anything of the sort, you have plot armor for these 10 years. Any assassination attempts will magically fail.
Your population does not have plot armor they can die.
The enemy can send spies.
You get to choose the location of your island at the start. Things spawn in, and has a random amount of development of an average developing country, history, culture is randomly filled in and backdated. Everyone speaks your most fluent language and is literate.
You have zero nukes.
You have zero nukes.
Yes, but I have 10 years to acquire them.
Develop or trade for nukes. Literally anything else leads to us being conquered or destroyed.
First move: immediately turn over the dictatorship to a council elected by trades unions and community groups to manage in the interest of all people on the island.
Second move, tell them about this impending threat and allow the new revolutionary council to deal with this issue. As a mechanical engineer I’m not beat suited to the role of dictator
I become an intel broker.
Create the most vast espionage network ever conceived of and use my and my country’s so-called plot armor to avoid any potential consequences. I will use my network to infiltrate those governments to the highest possible levels, collecting intel on every program they have. I then create an indispensable, worldwide intel marketplace where these rival nation can acquire whatever info they need about each other. As insurance, I make it so that, if invaded, this intel marketplace instantly vanishes, and the identities of all rival nation agents are made public.
This may not guarantee my country’s survival, but it will guarantee that whoever attacks me will get their asses handed to them by those other nine nations.
- Get nukes.
- Make incredibly sweet business deals with every nation, making being attacked by one a threat to ally he others.
- Hope 1 or 2 works or we’re fucked.
- I guess we’re fucked.
Cyberwarefare and a fuckton of drones.
Use the cyber division to infect the computers of your attacker’s military and to collect enough data to backmail high ranking officials.
Drones are hard to stop when they attack in a swarm.
Underwater drones wouldn’t be a bad idea either to attack any military that gets too close. Maybe a last ditch effort to take them down with you.
9 years to get nukes, 1 year to bankrupt the country and seek asylum in Russia.
The joke’s on you, I’ve been training for this day since the very first Tropico game.
Buy nukes, pursue them by all means possible. There are many unaccounted-for nukes since Soviet Union collapse.
Nothing else will work. Compare, say, Libya or Ukraine or Iraq or etc. to North Korea, a small, weak nation in comparison to the USA
Tbf North Korea is still safe without nukes, PRC is protecting them.
I don’t see the PRC as willing to sacrifice that much for North Korea, hopefully we will never know
Ooh, I get to choose the location?
Fairly close to the North Pole. Our people are adapted to it, assuming the island has always been there somehow. Nobody else is, making the logistics of trying to invade an absolute nightmare for anyone on Earth.
Now we just have to feed ourselves somehow in the event of a naval blockade, so a lot of investment into ballistic missiles and submarines to make a blockade as difficult as possible and hopefully keep our trade open during the summertime. I assume we’re fully reliant on imports that can only come in during that seasonal window. Fishing alone probably can’t sustain a population that large, and nothing is going to grow up there.
Assuming an invasion has to occur in 10 years and cannot be delayed, whoever tries is kinda fucked though.
If North Pole is cheating, then in the middle of the Pacific with the same plan. Probably can’t resist something like the US though in that case.
Climate change make you a tasty target. You’ll be less affected than equatorial shores int terms of sea level rise and your climate is warming. Why do you think Greenland is being targeted by the US right now? Because the US military is planning for global warming across the globe.
Sea levels rise the same everywhere. And not in 10 yrs it won’t.
They don’t. Rise at the equator is slightly more due to the same reason the Earth bulges at the equator: centripetal force. The already-elevated sea level plays into the gravitational baseline at sea level, so gravity is 0. 5% weaker there than at the poles. The tides are also typically more aggressive at the equator and will only get worse, since it’s in the plane of the moon’s orbit.
The rules say you’re going to be attacked. Surely, the victor will hold the land for decades. Why not try to take it now first before the rest of the planet is desperate?
Okay, fair enough.
I fail to see the distinction. By OPs prompt, we’re getting attacked no matter what once his plot armor expires.
“you cannot harm the cylinder…”
Aim for alliances with at least half the top militaries. If one is going to be gunning for us, I want their peers to have our back.
To that end, pick an island location with a strong command of shipping lanes, both to offer access to allies and to boost our economy. The invincible force field will help enforce this while we get set up. Offer temporarily invincible military bases to our allies - give them more reason to back us up, and hopefully jumpstart our military readiness.
Otherwise I’d go utopian like @Tonava said - entice the best and the brightest, and have them play to their strengths, aiming to have a robust, well-educated populace.
Is this Civilization loaded with automatic peace treaties, soon to be followed by nukey Ghandi?
Fun fact, if anyone knows the game/meme but doesn’t know what happened: Ghandi was set to have the lowest level of aggression possible, but a modifier was able to reduce it further. The negative value then got interpreted as the maximum value for aggression.
Put me right next to Russia. Nobody else will want to invade because Literally WW3 You Guys and the Russians still thinks it’s 1945 so at least we can prepare for that
I’m not sure if the rules prevent you from getting invaded by other countries
Sell my ass to China. Like, absolutely spread my cheek so the CCP can plow all the natural and human resources of my country in exchange for military hardware and training.
The thing is, the equipment and military is secondary. What I actually want is to tie myself diplomatically to the CCP. And hopefully the economic impact and good diplomatic relationship will push the Chinese government to intervene or at least indirectly support my country in case of war.
Worst case scenario I can be a PITA to invade. Best case scenario, Chinese trade sanctions, and military support force the invader to back off.
I’m choosing China over anyone else because of the potential impact of trade sanctions make them the best candidate. France or USA are also good options
So you become North Korea: Island Edition Boogaloo
