This is the first edition of our Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) analysis, focused on one of the most important products in Eclesiar: FOOD.

What does this statistic show?

The goal is simple: measure how much food a player can actually buy with their wage.

To make countries comparable, both wages and food prices were converted into gold. For each food quality from Q1 to Q5, purchasing power was calculated as:

PPP = NPC wage in gold / lowest food price in gold

Because different food qualities naturally have different prices, the results were then normalized against the global median for each quality and combined into an overall Food PPP Index, where 100 represents roughly the global median purchasing power. NPC wage is used as new players on whom this analysis is focused usually have similair wages as avg NPC.

Why does this matter for new players?

This statistic is particularly important for a new player.

New citizens need food to complete their daily missions and campaign missions, while starting with very limited funds. At this stage, they cannot rely on accumulated wealth or established businesses—their economic reality is largely determined by the wage they can earn and the prices available on their national market.

In other words, a high wage means little if food is also extremely expensive. What matters is how much that wage can actually buy.

The Top 5

Based on countries with complete Q1–Q5 market data, the five strongest food purchasing-power economies are:

  1. 🥇 South Korea — 247.9

  2. 🥈 Serbia — 156.1

  3. 🥉 Brazil — 152.6

  4. Poland — 151.5

  5. Croatia — 130.1

South Korea is clearly in a league of its own. Its wages are not the highest in term of gold value, but extremely competitive food prices give new players considerably more purchasing power than elsewhere.

What about Saudi Arabia?

Saudi Arabia as my home country is an interesting exception.

Saudi Arabia has one of the highest NPC wages at 2.474 gold, but its food market is very uneven. Q1 purchasing power is weak at only 9.56 food per wage, while Q2 jumps to 30.85 and Q3 to 19.98.

Saudi Arabia therefore performs strongly where Q2 and Q3 food is concerned, but its extremely expensive Q1 market significantly hurts new-player purchasing power.

There were no active Saudi Q4 or Q5 offers in our market snapshots, so Saudi Arabia cannot yet be fairly placed in the final Q1–Q5 ranking.

What's next?

Thank you for reading the first economy analysis. The next article will examine Weapon Purchasing Power, using the same principle to find out where players can afford the most weapons with their wages.

Premium readers can also access the full Food PPP table, containing all analyzed countries, their purchasing-power figures and complete ranking.