Hegemony

[paul191600]

Switzerland privately denounces any disarmament talks at this time.

[Guest Rob]

Summary for my last (March 16) turn (To make Archi's life earlier)

 

Budget:

10% - Project Green

8% - Recruiting (Bringing my Solider count to one million)

20.2% - Project A

1% - Building Naval/Land/Air units

Remaining ( 60.8%) - Infrastructure

[Guest Rob]

I thought the tax rule only applied to vehicles?

[The_Mather1]

No, but I can cut Pizza exports to all other countries, which has roughly a 75% chance of pubic riots.

That sounds really bad.

[Guest Rob]

No, but I can cut Pizza exports to all other countries, which has roughly a 75% chance of pubic riots.

That sounds really bad.

And you thought that was a typo...

 

And, :| Super lame. Only 50,000 soldiers have been recruited then.

[Nero]

Also, ya'll best stay outta Europe. Heck most European countries wouldn't like it if you entered.

Right, Lithuania and Switzerland better get our stuff packed and move out of Europe, eh?

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Japan:

Japan has recieved considerable praise for switching half of their power output to renewable energy, but has been lambasted for their pro-nuclear strategy, especially by domestic public opinion, and the government has been forced to backtrack even further than before, shutting down every Nuclear Power Station in Japan, the effect, along with teething troubles with the new Solar systems, have been rolling blackouts, which has crippled Japanese growth this year, and probably much of next year, reducing growth for the reset by 1%.

 

Japan has also been critized for attacking Indonesia, by the world community. 'It is Japan's responsiblity to lead by example, not to scold countries that don't know any better'.

 

In addition to this a set of four huge drydocks are under construction in Japan, the new super drydocks dwarf the previous record holder, America, by some 12%, increasing Japan's World Presence, while decreasing America's, both by 1. However, it has completely undermined Japan's arguements about Militarisation of Indonesia.

 

Japanese Businesses have also begun setting up in Iceland, providing a much needed economic stimulus.

 

Brazil:

Building on the Amazon Project, Brazil made a powerful speech at an international press conference, causing many critics to change tack, saying that Brazil is so Green that it is Red, citing 'the spiraling tax rate, the declining growth rates and ignorance of basic economic truthes, prefering instead to read obscure studies to support barmy ideas' and urging Brazilians to vote the Government out at the next election.

The entire affair has damaged Brazils World Presence, turning it into a laughing stock (-3 World Presence), but it has, at least, convinced some ecologists and biologists that the project might be worthwhile and they have begun coming to support the effort.

 

Outside of this Brazil has begun recruiting a sizable army and naval fleet.

 

Indonesia:

Following the overt militarisation of Japan, Indonesia has recruited a sizable army and begun a sizable ship building effort, as well as calling for a global ban on nuclear weapons. Indonesian Spokesmen said 'We don't want war, but we must be ready to defend ourselves from...other powers...'

Indonesia has also continued its vast Green Campaign, continuing the steady change over to Solar Power and reduction in carbon emissions. Japan had stood to gain some prestige from this, but their earlier attacks ensured that they gained nothing but lower carbon load.

Further commitment has been shown by Indonesia by their cutting edge research into Green Industry, while not 'pulling a Brazil', as papers have dubbed it, and shooting Industry in the face to do it...Or pulling a China and bringing about civil war.

 

Italy:

A massive investment of 10 Billion into Project Green has sparked some resistance in the population, who don't want to recycle, or have paper napkins made out of baby's nappies, and have launched a number of protests, like tipping broken glass into paper recycling bins or simply flytipping. As such Carbon Offsetting was reduced to only 500 Carbon Units.

 

A nominally sized army has been recruited.

 

 

South Africa:

(I was reading the speech aloud(Yeah, I am weird), came to the 'On a related note' and broke into laughter, sooooooo doesn't fit there... Anyway.)

 

South Africa has called another meeting of the African Congress, though turn out was rather low. While many powers agreed in principle to the notion of defending one another, none were willing to put pen to paper and sign an agreement to that end. Quite simply they don't want to annoy Americans, Europeans and Asians.

 

Germany:

Has recruited a large army.

 

Switzerland:

Switzerland has begun purchasing a small portion of gold each year.

 

China:

Civil War continues, the Emperor has done nothing to stem the violence and now, with multiple countries getting involved, with various Warlords declaring independance, it looks as though China may be reduced to the Forbidden Palace alone.

Factions are known as Wu, Min, Wuyue, Han, Chu, Jingnan, Emperor's China and the Republic of China.

 

World Events:

India and Russia have seized border territory from China, and Tibet has declared full independance, locked in a war with the various factions controlling their territory.

Vietnam and Burma has intervened in Southern China to 'preserve' Communism.

South Korea has launched a war against North Korea, and North Korea has hit back with a nuclear strike and counter-invasion, pushing south.

There is growing pressure on all neighbouring nations of China to take what territory they can.

 

So far there have been no battles which China was not a part of, however there is tension between Burma and Vietnam, Tibet and India and India and Burma.

 

The following map is a best guess estimation, there are no offical lines of authority, and in some areas the absence of authority is the only thing that defines it.

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Storms in the Black Forest (Germany) have been particularly intense this year.

[The_Mather1]

Japan trains 1,000,000 soldiers with a pay of 35,000 each.

They are then sent to help the Chinese re-unite their nation.

[archimage_a]

Can you send me a deployment, training and operational plan.

AKA, where they land, what they have and what they are supposed to do.

Preferably with a map.

 

 

Also:

Soliders cost 2000*prestige

And

Soliders recruited the same turn they are used as 50% less effective.

[The_Mather1]

90,000 each, those soldiers better be good, they're paid thrice as much as the avarage Japanese.

200,000 of them then, and they are to help the Chinese government reestablish control of China, preferably without killing anyone who doesn't shoot at them or the Chinese Emperor's forces.

 

Here:

 

And I think you missed when placing Resistance's area, I've marked Beijing, and the forbidden city is right in the middle of it.

[archimage_a]

Its more or less a pin point of his control, but thanks.

[The_Mather1]

Also Japan requests that other nations follow in its example to help reunite China.

[The_Mather1]

We know the Chinese families are mobsters, and that the people are worse under them than under Resistance.

Also my soldiers are to obey Resistance in his tactic against them.

And under optimal conditions their goal is to wander into the areas, take the families in charge into custody and give the areas back to Resistance, with no blood spilled.

 

All in all it's pretty much the equivalent of me sending 200,000 highly trained agents to him.

[Icuownage]

Sorry Dusty and Paul, I meant people from other continents, I'm fully okay with European countries <------ OOC.

 

Germany begins plans for a biofuel hydrponics tower to be built in Berlin, in the hopes the tower will reduce Germany's need for crude oil. Although the tower will not be finished for a number of years.

 

Is this 2012? If so, Germany comments on the olympics in London, saying the British did a good job, even though there was an economic crysis during the preparations of the olympics. (This is in hope to atleast patch up our rather tenious relationship), if not then this action is void.

 

Germany comments on the China issue "It is a rather delicate matter, and has sparked much war, it seems the current leadership needs to be impeached as the people have spoken"

 

With the recent storms in Black Forest, a Meteorology centre is opened there, funded 50 million, they're tasked to study the atmosphere and see what is up with the storms, they're also used to warn the area incase of another storm.

 

Also research into improved biofuels begins, hopefully improve their efficiency and such (generation 2 or something)

 

EDIT:

 

Germany also condemns North Korea on their nuclear response to South Korea's attack.

[Resistance]

I wasn't aware of there being in a civil war in the first place, I had to find Archi's status update later.

 

Besides, it is completely unrealistic to assume that the killing of a few corrupt individuals would result in a civil war, in PRC of all countrys. First of all there is huge paramilitary with an estimated 1.1 to 1.5 members. In other words, my police force would prevent a civil war and destroy any rioters pretty quickly.

 

The PAP's primary mission is internal security. The first law on the People's Armed Police, the Law on the People's Armed Police Force (PAPF), was passed in August 2009, giving it statutory authority to respond to riots, terrorist attacks or other emergencies.

 

We know what happened last time there were protests. The government killed 400-800 individuals with only about fifty deaths of policemen and military.

 

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I didn't say that I would send out 'death squads' killing everyone at all

 

Since the acension of the new Empror corruption is now minimal, given light of this the Chinese government begins what will be known in history as 夜反腐敗 (The Night of Anti-Corruption) and begins 'arresting' corrupt individuals.

 

In OOC I said I would kill people by execution, execution isn't just shooting people suspected of a crime. Execution means that you take them to a prison, try them and then if they're guilty you then execute them. That is the LAW in China, officials wouldn't just go around breaking the law because the Emporor told them to go an arrest people. Why are you listening to my OOC anyway, how would the officials get my OOC?

 

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If this was to happen why would these death squads be attacking villages? Only peasants live in Chinese villages, the top officals who could actually be accused of corruption will be in the city.

How can China's Industrial and Economic Business Owners be possibly guilty of corruption? Corruption in the PRC is by the government, private sector corruption doesn't really exist.

 

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How would death squads get over China in the time occured?

 

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This seems awfully along the lines of the moderator getting bored and so destroying a country.

 

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If this ridiculous event did occour, why could the Emperors China not be able to protect ANY BIT OF LAND? I have an absoloutely huge police force that could almost certaintly defend itself from an attack of generally unarmed civilians

 

Generally, private citizens are not allowed to possess guns. The chief exception to the general ban for individual gun ownership is for the purpose of hunting. Individuals who hold hunting permits can apply to purchase and hold firearms for the purpose of hunting. Illegal possession or sale of firearms may result in a minimum punishment of 3 years in prison, with the maximum being the death penalty.

 

So in other words, a majority of the people rebelling are unarmed. Many won't be hunters, some will but VERY little. And illegal firearms aren't likely seeing the sentence is so high and the sheer size and integrity of the Chinese police.

[jasignhagj]

The United States of America is minutes away from releasing the first budget of president Dan Miller, recently elected as in independant candidate.

[Icuownage]

Erm... To answer you.

 

You never stated what was corruption, thus they got confused and went for anyone.

 

Also so what if they weren't killing people? If the police force in your country went out and arrested anyone off the street, you'd start either crapping yourself, or think it's unjustice. You can't just go and arrest someone cause they're 'corrupt'

 

I know where you're coming from with the whole, your military would probably be able to handle it, being as China is a police state. (I think), but China is already on a slight hinge with revolts, and you pretty much just turned it upside down.

 

Again, everyone was accused because you never stated what corruption was.

 

This game has been running for two years, probably enough to drive around the world.

[Guest Rob]

Blarg. Project Green's funding is pushed down to one billion a year. Advertising will be "less pushy", and greener alternatives will only be offered to those who seem interested in it. That should piss less people off.

Project A continues, with no changes in funding.

 

Italy donates $250 million dollars worth of food supplies and sleeping bags to chinese civilians who have lost their jobs or houses due to the civil war.

[The_Mather1]

What are the GDPs of the different Chinese areas?

[Resistance]

You never stated what was corruption, thus they got confused and went for anyone.

According to Archi they killed random civilians in villages, obviously people who aren't government leaders of even private sector leaders.

 

Also so what if they weren't killing people? If the police force in your country went out and arrested anyone off the street, you'd start either crapping yourself, or think it's unjustice. You can't just go and arrest someone cause they're 'corrupt'

They aren't arresting everyone off the street, they're arresting corrupt individuals. That requires research. Archi took it as 'lets murder everyone randomly' despite me never saying that I wouldn't murder anyone.

 

I know where you're coming from with the whole, your military would probably be able to handle it, being as China is a police state. (I think), but China is already on a slight hinge with revolts, and you pretty much just turned it upside down.

My military doesn't exist but my armed police (which pretty much are military) WOULD handle it. China isn't on a hinge of revolts at all, ever visited? Its not how America makes out.

 

This game has been running for two years, probably enough to drive around the world.

I suppose.

 

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This whole scenario is extremely poorly thought out. Archi has completely twisted my words, he has claimed that all the officials are incompetant and stupid (murdering 2,000,000 random people) and will do pretty much the oppsiite of what you say (I say arrest corrupt people, Archi sends out massive death squads to kill everyone).

He has then completely miscalculated the outcome of what has happened as well as doing pretty much the oppisite of what I ordered.

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Mmmmm.

 

You told your officials to seek out and destroy corruption, in a country where the officials are corrupt.

One of those you kill my secretary, I kill your wife kinda of situations...and settling old scores, of course.

 

Then you have people going on the run, hiding in villages, what have you.

 

Then you had a total lack of orders from the Emperor, so having 1.5 million paramilitaries had no real effect.

 

Officials control the Police, and the officials kill other officials...Ergo, the police become private armies.

 

Policies that have the title 'Night of the ...' are associated with mass killings.

 

And the five officials you ordered to carry out the operation were killed within a month or so, along with many of their subordinates, so without new orders from the Emperor they just carried on.

 

And saying 'I didn't know' kinda confirms the point that the Emperor was totally detached from things.

 

Additionally the game is played with 1 day = 1 year, in case you were unaware.

 

@Mather

It is difficult to tell at this point.

[jasignhagj]

Im confused, Do I actually have to go through every vehicle in the US army and purchase it again, or is it assumed I have every vehicle that the US had in 2010?

[archimage_a]

Armies are reset to not having anything.

Price of Soldiers is Prestige * 2,000

Everything else is found on the internet.

[Resistance]

Mmmmm.

 

You told your officials to seek out and destroy corruption, in a country where the officials are corrupt.

One of those you kill my secretary, I kill your wife kinda of situations...and settling old scores, of course.

 

No I didn't I told them to seek out and arrest people who were corrupt, there is a quote back there.

 

Then you have people going on the run, hiding in villages, what have you.

 

I see

 

Then you had a total lack of orders from the Emperor, so having 1.5 million paramilitaries had no real effect.

 

The Emperor is the equivelant of the president in Weimar Germany. The chancellor leads (Chinese example: Hu Jintao, The Ruling party) and then if the president wants to interfere then he can bypass whatever he chooses. Thats how it works in real life. The paramilitarys are autonomous, if I killed somebody infront of a police officer would the police officer do anything? Yes, a full murder investigation would happen!!!

The police doesn't require the emperors permission to do there job! They're autonomous like they are in England.

 

Officials control the Police, and the officials kill other officials...Ergo, the police become private armies.

Thats a good point but the leader of the PAP would just arrest the individuals trying to create problems wouldn't.

 

Policies that have the title 'Night of the ...' are associated with mass killings.

That is true. But it is combatted by the 'Anti-corruption' bit on the end because its so nice.

 

And the five officials you ordered to carry out the operation were killed within a month or so, along with many of their subordinates, so without new orders from the Emperor they just carried on.

I wasn't informed, I was told in what is the equivelant of a public forum. I shouldn't be penalised for having a life and not being able to check a thread as often as others.

 

And saying 'I didn't know' kinda confirms the point that the Emperor was totally detached from things.

I wil give that.

[jasignhagj]

And do I have to pay for vehicles every 7 years, or do I have them until they get destroyed?