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Invictus said
And plus, they look hella cool.

Damn, I forgot to account for the 'looking damn fine' factor in my argument. Rule of cool always did triumph over reality...

Personally, I think that if the military had reached the required technologies for a mech they would just use that technology to figure out a way to make existing tank designs more manoeuvrable. Less money spent that way, plus you can upgrade tanks already in action. But you are right: we could just argue about this for days, or we could actually get some role-play done. Speaking of which: does anyone want to trade food for low cost goods such as pots, pans, common engine parts and cookers- basically anything that would be made in China nowadays?
Mechs are worse than tanks. Or rather, if you have the technological capabilities to build mechs better than tanks, you could build something else much better. This is evidenced by the fact that no military in the world uses mechs, but nearly all of them use tanks. For example, instead of mechs you could just build a much faster, more mobile tank, or even make 'power armour' for normal soldiers.
The Administration would base theirs off a decimal system. They'd divide the year into one hundred, and 'days' into ten, and 'hours' into one hundred. This would be for ease of recording when events occurred. However, as this does not in fact conform to the natural system of days and years, this is not used in normal, everyday life.

For this, I suggest we don't base it so much on religion- not just because there are atheist nations, but also because there are many different unrelated religions. I propose a more arbitrary 'common era' style date- for example, maybe the most powerful nations just decided on a date in order to help trading. This would in my opinion be more likely than a random religion deciding that they'll date everything by the birth of some other religion's deity.

Another suggestion could be that it's based on the fall of some large empire- perhaps a large swathe of the continent was part of such an empire, meaning that when it split into multiple states, it had huge, long-lasting effects on that whole region. Other nations (who hadn't been part of the empire, and so had been relatively unaffected) would have to adopt their dating system, as otherwise they'd just be placing barriers over their trade- sort of like how Chinese people have adopted ACE for international functions.

As for months, if we didn't want to just copy the dating system we have nowadays, we could have thirteen months with twenty-eight days each. There would be a leap year every ten years, I think. However, this could just unnecessarily complicate matters; it's really up to which you prefer: being different enough from reality, or being easy to use.

In terms of naming the months, please don't just think of cool names. It would be great if there was actually a reason behind each name, and amazing if they were tied to our nations (e.g. Machina as a month, named after the church of the machine...)
Hey Omega, I can give you pots and pans. You want pots and pans, right? Of course you do. Everyone wants them.
Eh...the underlying design philosophy of the Administration is cheapness and reliability, so there isn't exactly going to be much that'll wow you. Except in the air and artillery areas: we have strong advancements in both- mostly because they are both central to our military doctrine...
Metals and oil can be traded by the Administration. Wood, not so much...
That would be great. What does your nation need most?
The Solaran Administration needs food. We have goods.
If we could set up a permanent thing, that would be great.
Hey, Kilo6, as your country is against organised religion, maybe our countries can be allies/at least have a treaty to not attack each other? My nation desperately wants there to be more non-religious countries, and you want to have a red-cross like nation. This treaty would mean that you would be allowed to enter any warzone that the Administration was a part of and deliver relief- including to the enemies of the Administration. This means we have benefits to both sides: mine gets a nice shiny non-religious state, and you get to deliver relief supplies to countries you would be shot at in otherwise.
Hey- can I say that I have a large industrial base, more so than average, but to compensate my nation has an agricultural sector that is far too small to support it- which I thought would feed in well with the overcrowding issues I was going to give myself. This would mean that I would trade away most of my excess trade goods for food, meaning that in the end my nation doesn't have any advantage over others.

The reason I'd like this change is twofold: it would create some economic variety in our continent, and also create a dependence on foreign trade for my nation. This would create some problems for me, as well as potentially provide some interesting international politics. It would also fit my territory: it isn't the most agricultural of places. I feel I need some down-sides, as my nation seems too overpowered to me...

Of course, you could just decide this isn't worth doing (I get the same amount of goods and food either way), which is understandable. I'll just figure out some other weaknesses to put into my nation- I have a few ideas...
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