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FOR URIST!

http://www.rulers-of-nations.com/
You ever see this utterly bug-ridden game?
The kind where most people claim it's so buggy it's unplayable?
And then you just can't seem to put it down anyway?

This is Rulers of Nations, or GPS2, the sequel to the Geo Political Simulator from 2009.

Whether it's driving up taxes on the rich and big business to create my socialist paradise or down for a capitalist paradise, I can always get my kicks with it.
Pull the American troops out of the Middle East? It's your call.
Pour agents into a foreign country in order to overthrow their government and bring in one more friendly? It's your call.
Turn a struggling country into an industrial dreamland? That might take a lot of work, but in the end, it's your call.

For those wondering, you have a bunch of buttons at the bottom. Mousing over provides a vertical list of things. For example, one might bring up a list of "Budget, Taxation, Currency, and Civil Service" in which you can deal with budget issues. Or, if you go to the right a ways, you can find options on transportation where you can set speed limits. The game plays out in real time, hour after hour, with variable speeds similar to Supreme Ruler 2020 or other Paradox games and in your daily time frame you can set up future meetings with union leaders, foreign leaders, or even terrorist leaders. If you're feeling gutsy, maybe you want to, just out of the blue, forbid entrances and exits from the territory.  Why?  Because why not when you're the boss.  I mean, sure, it sucks when you get deposed but hey, you can nuke Indonesia before you go!

As for personal stories, I've recently been playing Ghana. Current goals? Create a tourist haven. Curb the rapidly increasing crime rate.  Oh, and invade Togo.
When you're this important, it's always a busy day...

What do you mean I'm not important? I'M PRESIDENT OF GHANA, DANGIT! 

So, looking through my outside food storage area, I find "turkey fat laced with water".

And I'm wondering, would it be possible to lace it with something else?
What about alcohol? And how would I go about trying it?

So are there any other games similar in vein to Wall $treet Raider and Capitalism/2?

I can't seem to find anything good that is offline and I don't have the patience for online ones. 

You know who you are.

So, I want to play the Humans.
My only problem is that it's impossible to assign a military.
Or at least, I think it is.  I can't figure out how.

Is there something in the raws I can change to allow military activities?

When I go into full screen mode, often times the screen is too big to do anything.

EVERYTHING BECOMES HUGE.

And so the screen focuses on what would normally be the top left-hand corner.

Point is, I can't tell what I'm doing when full screen.  Any ideas how to fix this so that I don't have to play in windowed mode?
Also of note is that this is NOT always the case, sometimes it works right.

First off, I asked in another thread if you could breed animals for traits.  Apparently, the consensus is a yes.

So now I'm curious as to whether gigantic is bigger than enormous or not. Are they?

I can't decide whether or not I want to kill my enormous ones to keep the breeds gigantic.