The State Of The Nation!! Err... Team...

Our workforce is at an all-time low. We are faced with an ageing population. Our workforce will have to work much harder in order to support the elderly. Following the large exodus of foreign talent, as well as being forced to dedicate more resources to support our war efforts, our domestic workforce ability has seriously dwindled. We are expecting some foreign talent to return shortly though, and perhaps some of our ageing population can be called back to work. Re-training the elderly to have the relevant skills however, will not be done until much later. The current recession however, is not expected to continue for long unless our workforce decides to continue to laze around.

With regards to trade, foreign countries have reduced some of their protectionist measures slightly, possibly a result of a change in government. Our merchants are also becoming much more skilled at dealing with traders from the far reaches of the World. Nevertheless, it is still undesirable that we still have little control over trade with other countries. It merely seems as a means to export goods when our domestic market is already saturated.

Our research and development has been doing better than we expected, except with the dwindling workforce, it seems that all the new technology will have no consumers to use them.

Competition with neighbouring countries is stiff. In fact, a recent security breach and a bout of carelessness, has left our neighbour with a much better deal than we have. Does make everything more fun though don't it ^^.

The Ministers are soon finishing their term. However, they are still shaky as to the next batch of leaders appointed. We are entering a transition period where we will now be led by a mix of old and new Ministers, while the older Ministers try to do as much as they can while not being routinely owned by Very Senior Ministers (Parents) or Senior Ministeresses (not to be confused with Mistresses, of which we hope none of our Ministers have).