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World Dominance: A Guide (Part III)
Feb. 13th, 2007 09:17 amPart I
Part II
So: you’ve got money. In fact, you’ve built up a monetary empire. People know your name in the underworld as someone canny and sharp.* Now it’s time to put those hard earned assets to work. You’ve been at this for a long time, and you’re ready to reward yourself with a little bit of carefully sown chaos.
Be careful when hiring your mercenaries, and remember, remember, remember: mercenaries are only on your side as long as you’re paying them. However, you do want intelligent people, not thugs. You need adaptable people who are able to follow orders but also to improvise when things don’t go according to plan. You will win points with them mostly by paying them, but also because they will realize that you recognize their intelligence. You don’t need to trust them, but you should at least make it apparent that you count on them to conduct your business professionally.
If you play your cards right, you can spend money to make money here. Mercs can take over your basic bank robbing needs, or whatever other dirty work you need them to cover. This is good, because at this point, you seriously need to expand your network. Travel and talk are the keys here.
You need to ooze schmooze.** By now you should have enough criminal dealings and contacts to get you introduced at most parties. Just remember to present yourself as charming and powerful, and soon you’ll be rubbing elbows with the movers and shakers. I recommend starting in the third world*** countries.
Essentially, you are getting yourself in place, and once you have the right contacts, the right blackmail and bribery information, and the general right stuff, you can start with the assassinations. That’s right.
Assassination.
Now, this cannot be haphazard. This part of the Guide is key. I suggest starting with smaller, lower powered countries again, both for practice and because the Rest of the World won’t realize what you’re doing immediately. Truthfully, you don’t want to be associated with these assassinations, if possible. You want to step in and pick up the pieces. This may not be practical if your networking isn’t extensive enough, but you should have made enough contacts by now to be able to get yourself invited to the real policy parties. Be the one to step in with the answers. This is where the history will really come in handy. You should know how to manage a country by now, and manage it prosperously. Of course, the people who have been living rich while the rest of the country suffers might not like your attitude, but again, that’s what you have assassins for.
You may be wondering, at this point, why you shouldn’t just be one of the rich people preying on the poor. Well, the answer is, at this point, you are. But to keep the money coming in, you need to produce. Perhaps child labor is the way to do this, but in the end, the countries you’ve taken over will be richer if you follow the schematics of capitalism, rather than communism. Remember: there are still a lot of poor people in America. The rich people are just a lot richer.
Recommended reading for this segment: Machiavelli’s The Prince, Tso’s The Art of War, Watterson’s The Complete Calvin & Hobbes.
*At least if you’ve been doing all this Correctly.
**Forgive me; I couldn’t resist. You can annihilate me later.
***I believe this term is no longer PC but hey, this is a World Dominance guide, so you can change the term to whatever you like.
Part IV
Part II
So: you’ve got money. In fact, you’ve built up a monetary empire. People know your name in the underworld as someone canny and sharp.* Now it’s time to put those hard earned assets to work. You’ve been at this for a long time, and you’re ready to reward yourself with a little bit of carefully sown chaos.
Be careful when hiring your mercenaries, and remember, remember, remember: mercenaries are only on your side as long as you’re paying them. However, you do want intelligent people, not thugs. You need adaptable people who are able to follow orders but also to improvise when things don’t go according to plan. You will win points with them mostly by paying them, but also because they will realize that you recognize their intelligence. You don’t need to trust them, but you should at least make it apparent that you count on them to conduct your business professionally.
If you play your cards right, you can spend money to make money here. Mercs can take over your basic bank robbing needs, or whatever other dirty work you need them to cover. This is good, because at this point, you seriously need to expand your network. Travel and talk are the keys here.
You need to ooze schmooze.** By now you should have enough criminal dealings and contacts to get you introduced at most parties. Just remember to present yourself as charming and powerful, and soon you’ll be rubbing elbows with the movers and shakers. I recommend starting in the third world*** countries.
Essentially, you are getting yourself in place, and once you have the right contacts, the right blackmail and bribery information, and the general right stuff, you can start with the assassinations. That’s right.
Assassination.
Now, this cannot be haphazard. This part of the Guide is key. I suggest starting with smaller, lower powered countries again, both for practice and because the Rest of the World won’t realize what you’re doing immediately. Truthfully, you don’t want to be associated with these assassinations, if possible. You want to step in and pick up the pieces. This may not be practical if your networking isn’t extensive enough, but you should have made enough contacts by now to be able to get yourself invited to the real policy parties. Be the one to step in with the answers. This is where the history will really come in handy. You should know how to manage a country by now, and manage it prosperously. Of course, the people who have been living rich while the rest of the country suffers might not like your attitude, but again, that’s what you have assassins for.
You may be wondering, at this point, why you shouldn’t just be one of the rich people preying on the poor. Well, the answer is, at this point, you are. But to keep the money coming in, you need to produce. Perhaps child labor is the way to do this, but in the end, the countries you’ve taken over will be richer if you follow the schematics of capitalism, rather than communism. Remember: there are still a lot of poor people in America. The rich people are just a lot richer.
Recommended reading for this segment: Machiavelli’s The Prince, Tso’s The Art of War, Watterson’s The Complete Calvin & Hobbes.
*At least if you’ve been doing all this Correctly.
**Forgive me; I couldn’t resist. You can annihilate me later.
***I believe this term is no longer PC but hey, this is a World Dominance guide, so you can change the term to whatever you like.
Part IV
