India

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I should think that the reason you dont see such great nations in the storyline is that there was no market considered for the product there, or just pure geo-political ignorance on the part of the writers.

Whilst I like the game, the backstory and geo-political origins of the settlers is pretty outdated - just my opinion.

Exactly - I think both of the factors you mention are right on.

I think that there is a place for India among the SCRA. The small amount of saboteurs might have had Indians among them, and it's likely India joined the Coalition, given it's poor economy, anti imperialist history and, of course, Indira Gandhi. Not a bad market (if you'll excuse the irony) for communism.

They'd probably eventually have to give up their religion, though, given communism's atheism.

Except...with all these variables at play in the twentieth century, India isn't communist today, and no culture under communism gave up its religion, certainly not one as ancient as India's (I think this over-rates communism as a phenomenon). Why would we think they'd do these things in the future?

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Sir Alisdair Buchanan, KBE ~ Gateway)Trafalgar