Every great leader knows it: you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs. Sometimes you have to do bad things in order to achieve good things. Sometimes you have to spill a little blood. Sometimes you have to, let's see here, kill 806 quadrillion people via famine in the space of a single year. Well okay then!
This and other vital lessons come courtesy of Victoria 3, which is celebrating its third birthday with a few statistics, as has become fashionable. Turns out players are either incredibly bad farmers or incredibly efficient murderers, because in the last 12 months they've starved enough people to death to denude real-life Earth of humans 107 million times over.
Finally, I'm at least a little surprised by the most-played nations. I'd expected the charts to be dominated by humdrum anglophone states. Especially the UK, given it was the dominant power of the era. But no, China has been players' most popular pick with 3.4 million playthroughs happening in the Middle Kingdom over the last year. Then it's Japan, the USA, Russia, and Prussia (thus all the anarchism, you see).
Anyway, I should apologise. At least some of those famine deaths were probably down to my ill-thought-out tariff policies. I really thought it was a good idea at the time.
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