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Thesis: Kaliningrad must be destroyed!
It isn't a secret for anyone that on the map there are some anomalies that send shivers down the spines of geographers. However, we understand that in most of the cases these anomalies are due to improving game balance and providing equal opportunities to all countries, regardless of the power balance in the real world. However there is one exception to this rule. In the game the reliance on actual geography creates an imbalance in the "equal opportunity" start. I call this the "Kaliningrad case".
The "Kaliningrad case" is due to the fact that although there is no Russian ingame region in the actual geographical location of Kaliningrad, the game administration assumes that it exists and because of that assumes that there is connection between the regions of Western Russia and the border regions of Poland and Lithuania. This makes the main Russian economics region (Western Russia is a high region ) in a marginal position compared to other high regions in the world and thus places Russia in a position worse than that of other countries.
As already stated, my argument is that Kaliningrad must be destroyed. This means that the connection between the Western Russia region and Lithuania and Poland must be removed. I would like to present some arguments for this to the game administration.
Facts.
1. Table comparing the high regions in the game and with how many foreign regions each of them has a border.
2. Citation from Wikipedia:
Kaliningrad Oblast (Russian: Калинингра́дская о́бласть, Kaliningradskaya oblast ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) on the Baltic coast. It has a population of 941,873 (2010 Census ).
The oblast forms the most western part of Russia, but it has no land connection to the rest of the country. Since its creation, it has been an exclave of the Russian SFSR and then of the Russian Federation.
An exclave, on the other hand, is a territory legally or politically attached to another territory with which it is not physically contiguous.
Arguments..
1. From the point of view of equal start and game mechanics.
High regions are a pivotal strategic component of the game and their ownership, exploitation, and conquest are one of the pillars of the game and the relations between countries. It is evident that a high-resource region placed at the border is vulnerable and places the country it belongs to in a dangerous position because if an enemy conquers it, the consequences will be a complete collapse of the economy of the country.
As you could see in the table above, there are 49 countries in the game and each of them has 1 high region that is inherent to the specific country. 15 countries have internal high regions that do not border any foreign countries, which provides a significant strategic advantage. On the opposite side there are less lucky countries whose high region borders three foreign regions, and there are 7 such countries. There is also one extremely unlucky country - Brazil - whose high region borders 4 potential enemies simultaneously. However, this pales in comparison with Russia, where the high region is the undoubted champion in this regard - it borders 11 foreign regions (second place goes to Croatia that has a border with 6 foreign regions ) of 6 potential enemies. More than that, because of this region Russia borders 11 other countries which is an impossible record comparing it with some other countries (23% of all countries in game ).
All of this places Russia in the worst possible position in the game, even not counting the fact that the above-mentioned Kaliningrad connection provides direct access to the country's high region to two of the most powerful countries in the game - Poland and Lithuania. I think that such setup could not be considered fair and does not provide equal opportunities to all countries. Thus the dis-balance has a purely game mechanics cause and should be fixed by the administration. There are no advantages due to the Kaliningrad case that offset Russia's precarious position compared to other countries in the game.
2. Based on actual geography
If the connection between Russian and Poland is justified because of the existence of Kaliningrad in the real world, then the administration must take into consideration that the Kaliningrad region is an exclave, meaning that the main part of the country does not have a land connection to Kaliningrad. There is no reason for the type of connections on the game map, unless we assume that there are huge teleportation bases in Kaliningrad, which would mean that the game is becoming a sci-fi.
Conclusions
Based on the reasoning and facts provided above, I would like to ask the game administration to reconsider the connection between the region Western Russia and the regions Sudovia, Lithuania minor, and Mazuria.
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