[Kameron8]

I agree that outside of lore documents, little is done to represent the economic status or general differences in resources between nations. 

That being said, to me it seems like more elaboration and expansion would be needed on the suggested system.  In some capacity, resource points need a system in which to be stored and actually used.  Otherwise, it serves almost exclusively as a factoid -- because people would be arguing/conflicting over imaginary resource numbers, which they are already more than capable of doing after consulting lore documents.  Easily accessible information is never a bad thing, and it does make understanding a nation's circumstance easier, but it sounded like the goal of this was a bit broader than that.