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Events - Opening Day to April 30th
April 22 - The Russian/Polish War begins. For the time being, no Russians are conscripted, as this is still a relatively small-scale deal (only 50,000 Russians involved, which is small even after I did my adjustments for gender, cohort, and population sizes*). This may change next year.
April 27 - Benito Mussolini founds the Fascist Party in Italy.
*Because wars have historically been fought primarily by men of baseball age, that means that they are far more likely to be involved in conflicts than the general population. Additionally, since I don't have census figures for the entire world in 1920 and beyond, I'm fudging a little with the figures. My calculations have me taking the size of the involvement, multiplying it by 20.52, and then dividing that against the current population of the country in question to determine the chance of an individual player getting swept up in the conflict. In the above example, 50,000 Russians times 20.52 = 1,026,00, divided by Russia's current population of 142 million = a 0.7% chance that each individual Russian player has to be involved in this conflict.
Did I mention that I am a big fan of complex formulae?
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