Rankings: Military Administrative Economic DevelopmentZero-Two Your military is either non-existent or so hopelessly

incompetent it might as well beYour bureacracy is hopelessly corrupt, yourgovernment has basically no legitimacy and rule oflaw has collapsed...have fun

You have two cows, you don't know where either ofthem are. You go grow some heroin and no onehas collected your taxes in thirteen years. You dieof dysentary

You have some dirt roads, and yourdaughters birth was performed by Zangief,a man who did not ask many questionsand smelled of cheap liquor. Roving deathcultists did not interrupt your wedding insearch of gasoline. That was your step-brothers

Three-Five Your military is fundamentally competent but ishampered by major issues such as chronicunderfunding or outdated equipment

Your government manages, it is reasonablycompetent, and you can get to the bank withoutbeing gunned down by rebels. There are issues tobe sure, but it's possible for the upper middle classat least to no notice them

You have two cows. You pay thirty workers to milkthose cows and claim full employment, the milk isthen exported to another country where it crashesthe domestic milk market

You have paved roads, they're a bitcracked but they're yours. Your daughterwas born in an overworked state-runhospital, where you're pretty sure the onlydoctor in the building was on somethingrelated to poppy seeds. The mail was lateall this week

Six-Eight Your army is above average in strength, funding,espirit du corps and training, though it may behampered by more fundamental issues such asinexperience or conscription

Crime is down, liberty is up, the status qou is goodfor pretty much everyone and the bread andcircuses are flowing. The social contract is doingeverything it should, with only a few minor hiccups.

You have two cows. You sell three of them to yourpublicly listed company, using letters of creditopened by your brother-in-law at the bank, thenexecute a debt / equity swap with associatedgeneral offer so that you get all four cows back,with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. The milkrights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanianintermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretlyowned by the majority shareholder, who sells therights to all seven cows' milk back to the listedcompany. The annual report says that the companyowns eight cows, with an option on one more.

The roads are paved every year, messingup your commute something fierce. Yourdaughter was delivered in a large andwell-supplied hospital, supported by thestate using the latest in automatedobstetrician assistants. Some hoolignstried to jack your car when you were in thedelivery room, but the police drones tookcare of them without you even noticing

Nine-Ten Your army is an absolutely overwhelming force,capable of taking on, and crushing, any other peerforce with ease and even going toe to toe withforces that by all rights should be out of its league

Your society is a paragon of efficiency andbenevolent governance. You're a statists wetdream and you make all the libertarians cry intotheir pillows over their own folly once they gazeupon your beauty

You have two cows, a stock-trading AI accidentlymisplaces a decimal, stating you have twenty cows,the solar economy crashes four seconds later

The roads are paved in a synthetic asphaltweave with in-built solar-panels. Not thatyou use them, since your have a hover-caryou lucky son of a bitch. Your daughterwas designed from the very best off youand your wife and then grown in a labsomewhere. Crime has been eradicatedafter the introduction of the PanopticonSecurity Service.