You have to admit that all my nations up until now have been extremely communistic. All central leadership and everything for the cause. 

But I recently came to grips with realism and realized that a nation that focuses primarily on economy and industry would have a far more robust system than a communistic one, because in a capitalistic nation, one has the freedom to do things, and the prospect of success to inspire them. Communism can't promote the same sort of creativity as capitalism, nor the same enthusiasm.

If I really want to make some examples, I can just point how Russia has the largest tank fleet in the world, but ultimately they were inferior to their enemies' because of a lack of innovation and consistent high quality. Meanwhile the capitalistic nation of the world practically owns the global market, because if America collapsed and disappeared, the global economy would crash spectacularly as well. I can say that because the global market crashed back during America's Great Depression, and we weren't as important then to the global scene as we are today. And not only did Capitalism #1 have such a hold on economy, we also have the infrustrature. Japan was a very centralized country with a single ruler, and they did manage to take out Pearl Harbor... and then we replaced our losses and then some, and overwhelmed them. Even if they traded American ships in a 1-2 ratio, with them taking out two ships to everyone one of theirs, we'd still be able to overwhelm them. We had the economy and industry to do so, once it switched over to war production.