Is This What We Have Become?

Day 968, 09:10 • Published in Canada Canada • by Armour144

Are we that selfish? Are we that greedy? What about our long-time friends and allies? Are we really becoming the type of people who won’t rent out a region so that we can “control a monopoly” on it? Is that how low we have sunk?


If you haven’t figured it out yet, this is all about Titanium.

Ah yes, Titanium. The moment it was announced that diamonds would become titanium, and that titanium was needed for some weapons, eCanada went crazy. All seemed perfect, we have two regions with high titanium, so we can keep one for ourselves and then rent the other one out to one of our allies.

It’s a perfect plan, right? Apparently not. Apparently, we don’t want to give away one region of Titanium. Apparently, we’ve all become greedy and selfish overnight.

Ever since mentioning the word “rent” eCanada launched into a rigorous debate. “Should we keep the region?” “Should we rent it?” Then along came the bromance talk, where some Canadians and Americans expressed their joy in the possibility of Canada letting the US inside of it.


Among the cries for renting are “it will give us gold”, “We want the US inside of us”, “We want to be inside Canada and make some Bromance”, and numerous other statements like that.

If you listen to the reasoning for keeping all the regions, you quickly notice one thing: it looks out for Canada, and only Canada. “We’ll have a monopoly on the titanium!” “We can earn tons by exporting to Eden markets!” “We’ll all become rich” etc…

For simplicity, we’ll call Option 1 renting out the region, and Option 2 not renting out the region.

It’s pretty clear here that business owners would benefit the most from option 2, as the only other competition on the Eden markets would be other Canadian businesses, all of which are paying their employees the same amount, and they all have the same amount of taxes. Who else does this benefit? The government might make a bit from taxes, but it would never equal he amount that they would receive from renting. Our allies would be forced to buy higher-priced titanium than if it is made in another country with lower wages, which directly leads to a higher cost for helicopters and artillery. This would then make it harder for them to afford these types of weapons which could hurt eCanada in the long run.

By this point, some of you may have realized that I have yet to mention the titanium that Australia possesses. Australia actually holds 2 regions of high titanium, but many seem to be keeping them out of the picture because they are currently PTO’d by the Indonesians. But this is only temporary. At some point in time, it is inevitable that Eden will go to free Australia, whether it means a massive Anti-PTO, or through conquest (if Indonesia has swapped to bring Titanium under its own borders.)
So, if one of the arguments towards not renting the titanium is that we will “have a monopoly”, does that also mean you don’t support our Australian bro’s in regaining their own high-titanium regions?

If you do support our Bro’s, then our possible Monopoly on titanium will fall the moment that Australia comes back under friendly hands. The AUS is a weaker currency at the moment, so they will be able to produce cheaper titanium. They’ll export it everywhere, or even rent out one of their two regions like we should be doing

If you don’t support Australia, then I am wondering just which Phoenix country you’re here spying for.

Now, for option 1.

If we do rent out a region, our treasury will grow to be fatter than a kid who only eats at McDonalds. We were offered some 2-3k for Manitoba - a region that doesn’t produce raw materials that are related to weapons, so I believe that the amount of money we could receive from Titanium would be enormous. We could use that gold in so many ways: increasing the CAF budget, providing more social services, etc.

However, renting out a region will hurt our ability to compete on the world-wide market. That is a fact, but no matter what we do it is inevitable. Australia will get their regions, and if we decide to not rent out a region, we’ll just hurt our relations with our allies and look like big, selfish idiots who tried to put themselves first and failed.

But, that being said, it will provide cheaper titanium to our allies, which creates cheaper weapons, which means much more powerful allies, with better relations towards us because we helped them achieve all that.

So, what do we want to become? The stereotypical nice Canadians who everyone loves? Or the greedy businessmen who care only for themselves and their profits?


Armour144