 Musings on India, Could India be the closest thing to a Superpower in SR? |
 Dec 5 2009, 11:00 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 144 Joined: 27-November 09 From: Los Angeles, PCC Member No.: 17,905  |
India gets very little coverage in the SR world. The only real mention I've seen in 4th Ed, where the AA Corp KITT is mentioned as, basically, the customer-level tech support for consumer goods, outsourced by even AAA megas.
This got me thinking. With the breakup of China, India is the largest nation in the Shadowrun world by population. According to the stats given at the Sixth World Wiki (which I think are derived from 3rd Ed Shadows of Asia), it is home to nearly 1 billion people. Not only that, though, but the demographic stats are interesting. While nearly half the nation has less than a high school-level education (and the poverty rate is 25%), India boasts more Advanced Degrees than even Japan (18% vs 14%). In fact, the total number of undergrad AND advanced degree holders given are 44% compared to Japan's 43% and Seattle's 34%! Basically, India has nearly 440 MILLION people with some kind of higher-level education. What is also interesting is where Japan boasts a 97% Corporate Affiliation rate, India is only 22% This means that even if the AAA's and AA's were to employ only college educated folks, half the population would still be highly educated and not corporate affiliated. So what do we think? What do you suppose the status of the largest nation on Earth is? Especially one who's educated populace exceeds many other nations' (or corporations) total number of citizens? One which appears to have very little corporate involvement and is unified by a national faith only made stronger and more "real" by the Awakening? |
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Dec 5 2009, 11:44 PM
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Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600 |
I don't know, India has similar figures today - is it a superpower now?
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Dec 6 2009, 12:18 AM
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Old Man of the North Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 10,227 Joined: 14-August 03 From: Just north of the Centre of the Universe Member No.: 5,463 |
QUOTE (Backgammon @ Dec 5 2009, 04:44 PM)  I don't know, India has similar figures today - is it a superpower now? It is rapidly approaching that status, both in economic terms and military terms. It has been argued that while China is building at a prodigious rate to catch up to the 20th century, India is rushing into the 21st century. |
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