Talk:Superpowers/@comment-4803925-20120131200822/@comment-4803914-20120131201651

You can't say definitively that "all it needed for superpower status was one higher level of military power". You do not achieve superpower status by having all stats in the top third (I got mine before that). China had superpower status with the lowest economic level in the game! Also, other nations have gotten all their stats in the top third or higher without getting superpower status. Some even had better stats than you. There's no definitive rule for deciding when a nation achieves superpower status, and as such your statement doesn't belong there.