Well knock me down with a feather, your English is that good and with a name like Oggy - that's a Geordie name (area in the NE) well your an adopted one of us. There's even an Oggy Pie making company - delicious! On Khan Wars i was invited to join a Bulgarian clan and the leader and I exchanged many a long message, she's been booted for some minor infraction and can no longer play so I've put her on to Bulfleet and she'll be joining soon, her English is good too.
Our cities are non too clean either and litter is a major problem, there's no national pride in the country any longer and the deeper thinking ones know its a country in decline and the ones who can afford to are leaving. I lived in Portugal in the 80's and 90's and loved the place but I lost a packet and had to come back here to rebuild. I live in Plymouth in the SW, that bit of land that sticks out into the Atlantic. One thing England has given the world is the ability to communicate (I know that's with America's help) without English the International chat on the Internet would be impossible.
Money and corruption make the world go round, its always was so and will always will cotinue to be so.
Though we've got Democracy here, the privilege of voting means you decide which party will be first in line for the feeding trough, nothing more. We've had 20yrs of Govt with no vision and the people are stuck in the past. We will be known as the nation who gave their country away. We are only world leaders in producing morons, there's some rays of hope about but they are getting older and getting beyond caring anymore. That's rather deep for this time of night and my Science Factory level 7 should be done and I haven't voted yet for some more Resource - No wonder I'm into gaming it takes my mind off Poitics.
Well Oggy might drop by tomorrow night- be careful out there

StarryEyed