Uhhh...Nope
You have to read it. The BTdF isn't a wank - the Colony's development is actually painfully slow and they can't afford much in the way of weapons, so they have to depend on their wits and everyone else's hand-me-downs. Economically, they have depended on agriculture, the mining of poor-quality coal, re-processing scrap, timber working, whaling, fishing and (eventually, 1970s on) petrochemicals and electronics. Much as Argentino and Chileo TdF now. And they're as cosmopolitan as the rest of the South Cone - except that I had to establish a Maori colony there. The only advantages were a gold rush (1900s) and oil and gas (1940s-1960s).
And they nearly get creamed several times. Pete thought my casualty figures for Ferrettistas' massacres too high. Would you believe (yep, think of Russian methods) that some Land Guard are armed with Crimean-era muskets? I recall that a Napoleon film filmed in Russia, the Russians exported the prop rifles to third-world revolutionaries. In the 1980s, the Russians warehoused a lot of WWII tanks. You have to survive to survive. Anything else is daft.
And it just goes to show that neither the Middle East nor Norteamericanos have any right to rule the world. Should I be writing a Britwank, or would it be a dead bore?
BTW, Fuegan Brandy is not for the faint-hearted - you'd be safer with a case of Newcastle Brown.