Military

Purchasing military provides three functions 1) defend your nation against foreign attacks 2) deploying soldiers overseas to attack other nations and 3) a police force for your population (a strong defending military will make your citizens happy). Purchasing military will increase your total population count but you will not be able to collect taxes from your military personnel.

When creating a new nation the National Peace/War Preference option allows you to specify whether or not you want to allow other nations to declare war on you and attack your nation or to play the game as a peaceful nation. You war preference can only be changed once every few days.