Hi, my name is Pursche. For those who don't know, I am the Vice President of Sweden and the Supreme Commander of WET.

I mainly play this game for the politics and diplomacy, however it is a major pet peeve of mine that alliances are so secretive and vague about who is actually a member or not. In my opinion, alliances are things to be proud of and should act as a deterrence to getting attacked, and when there's a bunch of protective deals made in secret, that kinda defeats the purpose.

So, to clear things up, I am starting this new series of articles which I call "Alliance Weekly". I aim to make an article every week summarizing any possible alliance news I may have caught wind of, countries joining, countries leaving, deals signed etc. However, I do admit that I am not privy to all the things going on in this game, and it's definitely possible that I miss things (especially when certain alliances *cough* EPIC *cough* doesn't public update articles about their member countries and then include half the world in a NAP despite them "not being in the alliance").

Current Alliances (to the best of my knowledge)
WET consists of Sweden, Germany, UK, France and Portugal.

EPIC consists of Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, USA, Brazil, Chile and Japan.

South Korea has formed an alliance with South Korea, Bulgaria, China and Serbia, they didn't have a name when I asked them about this last week and still haven't published one, so I'm gonna go ahead and christen them Kpoppers. If you want a better name, inform me of what you want to be called for future articles.

Poland stands without an alliance, but because of their active citizen count they are essentially playing on the same level as an alliance, so I think they are relevant enough to to mention.

Current Treaties
As it stands on day 301, Poland has a Non Aggression Pact with EPIC + Egypt, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Bosnia, Croatia, Romania and Hungary. This was a stupidly long 90 day NAP lasting until Day 380. Article Here

Balance of Power
Now for the last part of this article, I have made a tool which lets me take the Country Statistics page, group countries together into Alliances and then visualize how these alliances compare based on said statistics. Since I don't really know how embedding is going to look (and I can't preview the article), I will also directly link it. If the text is too small to be readable, follow the link and it should be easier to see, the image is 3000x4126 pixels, if the text is not readable you're seeing a preview or you're not zoomed in enough.

https://i.ibb.co/67fzwH9n/Day301.png


Weekly Reader Question
What do YOU think of 90 day NAPs between half the world, are they good for the game?

P.S: If anyone hears of newsworthy alliance related events, please hit me up on Discord and I will be sure to include it next week. Same goes for corrections.