However, they lack Rubber and Chromium and so these must be imported. They have more than enough of Oil and Aluminum, as well as sufficient Steel, and will profit greatly from their exports in the game. When it comes to resources, the Americans live in abundance. Another undermining factor for the country's might is the low number of military factories, rendering its army very weak at the start. To fully exploit the U.S.'s economic potential, one has to go to war to enable the removal of The Great Depression modifier and to change the economic laws. only has 22 civilian factories available for construction. However, due to the immense 80% consumer factory requirements by the country's national spirits, the U.S. The United States boasts, without a doubt, the largest construction capability of the major powers by 1936. A 'great neutral nation' will be drawn into a great whirlpool, whether it is hoped or not. The US policy of non-interference with foreign wars has been established, but tensions are increasing in Europe and Asia. This has come to a dramatic end as the nation is in trouble due to the Great Depression. The United States returned to isolation from the end of World War I and enjoyed economic prosperity in the Roaring Twenties.