Brandenburg Business Weekly - World Economic Index

[Desertfox]

Well the Dutch should have known better than to light a match in a firework factory. ;D

[Korpen]

Well the Dutch should have known better than to light a match in a firework factory.

Well, Evil must be opposed, and pirates must be punnished.

[Korpen]

"The de Soto Index" of Industrial Power

The terms:

IC = IC
IP = Millions of people with a corresponding IC
P = Millions of people without a corresponding IC
BP = BP

The Formula which gives the "de Soto" number is:  IC + IP + P/5 + BP*4.  In other words, it's your semi-annual budget plus (BP * 4)

Netherlands:  201

Despite that the Netherlands did grow a bit (2% pop growth and 1 more IC in the NOI), 201 seems a bit high, if I follow the part I marked in bold I get a number of 173,7, and that seems more fitting.
I think that the Netherlands rating would be distorted by the fact that one part of the country have very little population, but lots of IC, and the rest got 80% of the population, but very little IC.

[swamphen]

The Swiss are viewed in Gran Colombia as loose cannons, prone to going off at unexpected times for unexpected reasons.

And in unexpected directions.

'Loose cannons' probably wouldn't be the Confederate way of discribing them- more like 'combination magazine/smoking room.' You know they are gonna blow- just not how long you get to enjoy the atmosphere.

Just so we're clear on this, these are Swiss we're talking about here, not Filipinos.