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"Second World" precludes two different major superpowers.
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Tical_2000
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you're an idiot.
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Zer0_T0lerance
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for Eternity
Oct 2000
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Here is some more, valuable information:
THIRD WORLD. The term Third World was originally coined in French (tiers monde) in 1952 to describe a group of countries that chose to stay out of the Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union (the First and Second worlds). Among these nations were Yugoslavia, Egypt, India, Ghana, and Indonesia. (See also Cold War; International Relations, "The Third World.")
By the mid-1950s the term was taking on a broader meaning. It became a collective reference to all underdeveloped nations. The meaning of Third World, therefore, had changed from a geographic one to an economic one. The underdeveloped countries encompassed all of Latin America, all of Africa except for the nation of South Africa, of Asia except for Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Israel.
Some areas such as sub-Saharan Africa, Haiti, and Bangladesh remained mired in poverty and squalor. They became known as the Fourth World to differentiate them from places that showed a measure of economic growth.
Economics. Taken together, most of the Third World societies and all of those in the Fourth World share certain economic characteristics. They may, like Haiti, be poor in natural resources with neither economic development nor growth. Or they may have undergone some economic development without economic growth.
There is a significant difference between development and growth. Development is brought in from the outside, while growth is initiated from within. The petroleum-rich nations of the Middle East, for example, have known a great deal of economic development since the end of World War II. The technology, money, and know-how brought in from the United States and other Western nations has enabled them to earn billions of dollars by exporting oil. But they have had very little economic growth--the emergence of home-grown manufacturing and agriculture that create wealth. If the oil is ever depleted, it is very likely that these countries will sink back into poverty again.
Without the growth of economies at home, Third- and Fourth-World countries remain little more than supply regions for the industrialized nations. They offer their natural resources as exports, but if the market for these resources collapses they have nothing to fall back on.
Politics. Many Third World countries are governed by extremely inefficient, repressive, and dishonest regimes. Such regimes, with few exceptions, have been unable to guide their nations into prosperity. (South Korea is a notable exception.) They depend on money brought in from the outside for development, but much of this money finds its way into the private bank accounts of the officers of government.
Repressive regimes are rarely stable. They are vulnerable to rebellion and guerrilla warfare, as has happened in Iran, The Philippines, and much of Central and South America. Even the Third World countries that have experienced revolutions usually find themselves no better off. The new governments turn out to be as repressive and ineffectual as the ones they replaced.
Population and debt. The two worst problems facing underdeveloped countries are population increase and the burden of debt. The highest birthrates in the world are in Third- and Fourth-World nations. It is expected that the world population will increase by 2 billion in about the next 20 years. Ninety percent of this increase will be in underdeveloped nations.
Increases of this magnitude aggravate already serious problems of food supply, unemployment, and public services. City populations also burgeon as people move from the countryside to urban areas in search of work or welfare.
Billions of dollars in aid--in the form of loans--have been sent to most underdeveloped countries since the early 1960s. Much of the borrowing was done when the industrial nations were prosperous and interest rates were low. Today many Third- and Fourth-World countries are overburdened with huge debts and see no way to repay them. The total debt of these nations is more than 800 billion dollars. The largest debtors are Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Nigeria, Peru, Chile, and Poland. To keep these nations afloat, lenders are forced to refinance the loans or face the threat of default, or total nonpayment. A default of such size would wreck the international financial system. Yet the vast amount of money poured into the underdeveloped world has done little to make it economically self-sufficient.
Multinational corporations. Many large corporations based in Western Europe, North America, and Japan operate manufacturing and other business facilities in underdeveloped countries. In some cases entire factories have been built--the German auto manufacturer Volkswagen has an automobile plant in Brazil, for example. The subdivision of production processes has also enabled companies to have some of their work done in countries with lower wages, while final assembly is at the home plant.
The operations of multinational corporations have served to make the world economically interdependent. One result, however, has been to increase unemployment in the industrialized world by shipping jobs overseas. Another result has been increased control of the economies of underdeveloped nations while not raising their standards of living appreciably.
FOURTH WORLD. A group of nations especially in Africa and Asia characterized by extremely low per capita income and an absence of valuable natural resources.
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From Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia Deluxe Đ 1998 The Learning Company, Inc.
[This message has been edited by Zero_Tolerance (edited November 25, 2000).]
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Zer0_T0lerance
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for Eternity
Oct 2000
time: 23:12
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With this information, I think that naturally the difference between 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th world countries in Civ3 should be classified like this:
1st - the developed nations of the world that have both freedom and money.
2nd - the developed nations of the world that have money, but no freedom.
3rd - the underdeveloped nations of the world that have weak economies and rely entirely on trade using their own natural resources to keep from "falling back."
4th - the underdeveloped nations of the world that have very weak or no economies at all and have little or no natural resources to trade with.
If the game were set up this way, regardless of the state of the game, their may only be 3rd and 4th world countries to start and as time goes by and new forms of government are discovered and nations rise up to power, 1st and 2nd world countries will begin to appear.
Ok, I'm ready to get bashed now. . . 
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Zero (formerly jrhughes98)
[This message has been edited by Zero_Tolerance (edited November 25, 2000).]
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Ribannah
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The Netherlands, Embassy of the Iroquois Confederacy
Aug 2000
time: 06:12
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As far as I know, the original meaning was this:
First World - Europe + Mediterranean (the old powers)
Second World - Colonies that took to parental culture and state of development (USA, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, South Africa)
Third World - Colonies that failed to do so
which left only a few countries to escape the terminology (mainly China, Korea and Japan). Some others are borderline (Mexico, Mongolia).
But I may be wrong, I couldn't find a reference.
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If you have no feet, don't walk on fire
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Tical_2000
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Mr. Dictionary...err, I mean Zero Tolerance: Where do you suggest this 1st, 2nd, and 3rd world idea fit into actual gameplay. Is this whole thread dedicated to a useless statistic people would like to see on the demographics window??? Seriously though, what's the point? Where's the substance to these ideas???
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Tical_2000
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Yes but WHY? Why would we need to do that?
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Diablo, Bro. of Mephisto
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Salt Lake City, USA
Oct 2000
time: 05:12
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There should not be 1st, 2nd, and 3rd (and 4th) world countries, because it is not part of the Civ games, I would prefere regular civs, and then mini civs.
The mini civs would be like the Barbarian units that stock you and try to overun your empire in civ2, except that in civ3 they should be more like a *mini* civ, they would have minor settlements here and there, depending on the diffeculty you are playing on. and the size of the map
the regular civs would be as they are.
And also, I would kinda like to see 1st, 2nd, and 3rd world countries, specificly for historical accuracy. Its just that it wouldn't work. 
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