Talk:Timeline/@comment-189.32.144.39-20150308201647

I believe the countries choosed by the author to form the Ark really good when you analyze the actual international politics.

I read somewhere in the wiki a comment saying Israel and South Korea should be part of the Ark besides some countries with low space investments like Brazil, Canada or Australia. But lets think, those 3 countries are rich and sometimes with neutral positions in the global conflicts, Israel and south Korea are in the middle of international conflicts nowadays... Well a war happened in 2052, it's easy to see why South/North Korea and Israel weren't choose by the author, they could be involved in the conflicts (Israel has a nuclear arsenal). And all the BRICS members are in the Ark (except South Africa), EU it's represented by some wealthy members too. United States and Russia obviously and others traditional west powers, some new global powers like China and India, Brazil is an important power in South America and Africa, it's the second richest and biggest country in the Americas. Venezuela and Uganda... Well Venezuela is an important oil producer and OPEC member, usually in opposite of American politics. Uganda well I don't know what to think, it's a poor country, with a complicated neighbourhood (South sudan, groups like boko haram etc) but Uganda had some economy development in the past 10 years, could be an important actor in three decades.

You can find the resources I used here: http://www.imf.org/external/country/index.html https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2001.html This one is a nice study with global projections for 2030 made by EU: http://europa.eu/espas/pdf/espas-report-economy.pdf There is some IMF and others organizations studies with projections for 2030. Sorry if the comment get to long but all that stuff, theories and ideas were in my head since the first season and I needed to put it out.