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| The Disputed Territories of Interstitiality factbook; Long rant be warned | |
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| Exidor | Apr 5 2010, 10:40 AM Post #1 |
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(Work in progress) The Disputed Territories of Interstitiality Geography The Disputed Territories of Interstitiality is a huge nation occupying most of Siberia parts of China around former Vladivostok an enclave in Africa (part of formal Angola) and mining outposts on the polar ice cap. The environment is well preserved as the nations industry developed during the late 20 century following strict envirmental norms. As the territory is very rich on both resourses and farming land the only real worry is logistics and the harsh Siberian winters. The aria is sesmaticly stable and there are no imminent environmental threads to the population. Global warming is a concern as many buildings depend on the eternal frost to sustain theyer weight. Economy The Disputed Territories of Interstitiality has no physical currency the units used for internal and external dealings are called barters. All the internal dealings are managed by a complex network banking system which is centered around personal data aggregation devices owned by every citizen. All the transactions are instantaneous and backed by the governamental militaristic T-Platform cyberwarfare corporation. Making tax evasion and other manipulations virtually impossible. This unified banking system also allows prices and currency value to be adjusted on the fly. As the whole system is controlled by a governmentally backed corporation there is newer a cash shortage for loans or aggressive gambling on foreign stock markets. As there is no money in the traditional sense there are no resources waisted on printing any and all the capital is in a constant rotation generating revenues. The backbone of the economy is the arms manufacturing giant X-Corp which indirectly controls all the governmental corporations including T-Platform and is part of the government. X-Corps managment acts as the economics chancellor for the government. The GDP per capita is estimated at $37,004.44. The tax rate is 100% as all the money essentially belongs to the government. Every citizen is guaranteed medical help protection and education financed by the government without any separate taxes. There is no traditional tax system the government takes a presentage of busybodies earnings and retains the right to borrow money when needed. There is no limitation or prohibitation on high earning all luxury. 60% of the businesses are X-Corps devisions everything from nuke manufacturing to farming. Most privately owned companies are resellers or importers. This ensures lossless equal pay. There is a well developed consumer marked demanding a lot of goods most of which are produced inland but the middle segment is also filled by imports as costumers demand variety. T-Platform is the second largest company although it is X-Corps daughter company there is a lot of tension as T-Platform shows the biggest growth owning all the telecommunication infrastructure some media channels and ensuring data security for many inland and foreign customers. T-Platform can be compared to the Swiss banks of old having the most secure and absolutely anonymous data servers everything except illigal pornography and snuf films goes. Foreigners are also allowed to store money for obviate tax evasion. T-Platform is 100% backed by the government if need be also multilayer. T-Platform provides all sorts of IT services its second largest income source is producing and selling legal pornography to the western world through its many foreign fronts. The nations many natural resources are mostly used and refined inland but also serve to back external deals and to maintain a stable exchange rate of about $1.3 per barter for Interstitiality-s tourists depending on T-Platform to ensure seamless barter trans fares worldwide in which it takes great pride. Most ATM-s will synchronize with Interstitiality-s PDA-s and instantaneously provide the needed currency. Deals are mostly sealed for short period and tide to oil gas or gold prices as Interstitiality has no real interest in national currencies or regional bank applications. The governmental corporations are mostly interested in securing infrastructure and intellectual property. Nefti-Gaz is the third largest corporation dealing in fossil fuels. Inland development is complicated due to high environmental standards so most of the companies business is scented around seizing foreign assets and backing government deals. 10% of the nations power is generated by burning fossil fuels (mostly gas) 60% via nuclear fission 30% green hydro, wind, tide generators ... (no bio fuel). A lot of money is spent on research especially space programs a maned station and many communication satellites ensure a strong market presents and armed nukes ensure security. The economy is always running a high risk of overheating due to huge expenses and therefore an export dependents. To fuel this huge machine Interstitiality is locked in a constant war suppling all sorts of dictators with weapons and experts. Interstitiality keeps a strict policy against terrorism and civilian causalities..... Al through technically only citizens of Interstitiality are civilians. Controversial but Interstitiality-s actions newer overstep certain ethical borders like mass murder torture or selling weapons of mass destructions to anybody but politically well established stable regimes. War is a business and Interstitiality has a reputation to maintain. There is a lot more money in maintaining someones regular armies than in selling nukes to terrorists. People and culture Population 1.478 billion 75%of which are citizens. Maturity before the law 18. The only official language is Russian. The culture is also shaped mostly by Russian folklore. During the "Shadow War" (of 1991 - still going) most major cadet and junker schools of the Russian Empire were reopened in Siberia. Reforging the former officer based society core. This schools are very prominent and have Universities and Guard devisions attached to them. This are the forges of the new elite most of nowadays prominences is tied to those schools. The population consists mostly form former Soviet citizens. Excluding the enclave where the majority is African(mostly former Angola, Nicaragua). Citizenship is given by birthright(both parents were citizens) or earned by serving for 5 years in the International Legion. Citizenship is newer revoked (except treason or other capital offenses) and social earned social payments are payed out regardless of ones current location. Education is free for every citizen. The government places great value on education virtually unlimited resourses are granted for recruitment and maintenance. Citizens enter school at the age of 6 and study for 13 years. 4 last years are gymnasium or cadet schools before enrolling students are tested and sorted. 2 last years of gymnasium are spent in the military away from home. The general policy is to give high lvl education to all without prioritizing schools or regions regardless of the expenses. There is a great emphasis placed on sports students train 4 times a week and most of them belong to a competing team. Martial arts and especialy combat sambo are very popular. Physically disadvantaged people study in the same schools and complete the same military training to the best of their capabilities. Classes consist of maximum 20 ppl and teachers are responsible for their students progress risking sever punishment. Depending on there capabilities students are sent to different branches of the military receiving basic training. During that time they also choose between weather they want to specialize on civilian studies in preparation for university or military in preparation for officer academy. University and officer academy are also free as long as you pass the tests. In universities sports are mandatory (if not medically prohibited) and some more military training on the spot is given every man who completes university is also an officer of the reserve. This excludes IT specialists and medics as they have to spend some time with the military as combat specialist every company has its medical and IT devision.(Special forces have a different structure). There are also preschools funded by the government. Some citizens send their children to junker schools. Orphans are enrolled into junker schools after serving there. They enter cadet schools (last 4 years) or are sent to public schools if disabled or if they fail the tests. Cadets pledge their allegiance to their brigade and after completing their education spend another 5 years minimum with the military. Every cadet is also a guardsmen. After cadet school they enter university to receive officer training plus civilian training or specialized training (doctors, aviation, IT, fleet school, space programs). Policemen enter a specific police university after effectively being both police and army officers. The above applies only to citizens. Others must pay for their education. After basic schooling they can enroll into the International Legion to earn theyer citizenship after 5 years of service. If they survive that long they can pass exams to enroll to university like any other citizen. Non citizens mostly occupy "dirty jobs" with low pay. Capital punishment stands on murder treason and drug traffic and any offenses against the expedition protocol. Prisons are bad places to be prisoners are used as cheap workers for physical labor. Mostly people get fined as imprisonment is quite rare due to the education system. If sentenced for under 10 years a convict can choose to serve in the legion to redeem himself. Drugs are prohibited. Smoking is prohibitively expensive and forbidden in most public areas. Drinking is quite expensive but still part of the culture. Cities are densely populated but kept green building and planning is strictly overseen by the government. Densely populated areas are built to be hardly accessible by car to encourage the use of public transport. The public transportation system is constantly being modernized and expanded. A train network covers most of the country but cars are still popular due to the long distances between settlements. A lot of the nations territory is under environmental protection. This and very high safety standards make building very expensive everything is carefully planned and build to last using mostly modern composite materials. Bomb shelters are mandatory. Government and political structure The Disputed Territories of Interstitiality is structured around fore pillars. 1 to rule them all and 3 specific ones. As the country was established by KGB, academics and parts of the Soviet genstab it retained a highly structured command system. The first constitution was largely based on the Spetsnaz expedition protocol. Modern Interstitiality is ruled by the so called shadow commite. Consisting of 13 spesnaz intelligence officers and backed by the structure of spetsnaz a clocked shadow with the dagger at the ready in one hand and the red nuke button in the other. The spetsnaz troops and intelligence answers directly to them and any of theyer rulings are final. There is rumored to 1 single "Leader" the "Shadow Cardinal" who is more equal but who knows. They are nameless and mostly observe stepping in when things go wrong. The three other sectors answer directly to them. X-Corp and its management have the say in economics matters. The democratically chosen Dooma answers for the political and social side. The genstab and its marshals and admirals answer for the military side. There is also a supreme court that besides disputes between the 3 and rules in foreign lavsutes and expedition protocol offenses and capital punishment. The commite is above them all. Military Interstitiality military consists of 5 types of troops: Land: including the International Legion mostly shock troops to sock damage; Regular army citizen conscripts serving their time; Guardsmen professional professional soldiers all of them trained as junkers the cadets and serve in brigades having a history of war dating back centuries. Most guardsmen in the land force belong to the VDV rapid deployment forces airborne elite with their own re cone and armored support all of which is airborne. There are a few non VDV guard brigaides which mostly serve as heavy defense troops securing the borders and important locations. Most of the boarder guard consists of conscripts. Air: consists mostly of guardsmen as the physical conditioning and training both physical and mental training required is hard to achieve. Only some logistic and maintenance personnel are conscripts. See: consists of both guardsmen and recruits. Marines and high ranking officers are all guardsmen as are the men serving on nuclear subs. Space: missile defense offense tactical strike specialists. Consist solely out of guardsmen. Spetsnaz: the few and the proud cadets that passed the tests enrolled into spetsnaz academies and graduated. There are the Cyberwarfare specialists keeping an eye on T-Platform and managing intelligence and many other aspects of 21 century warfare including hacking trained to get the job don. More often than you think going for the weakest link the human security component. And the deep strike specialist or as they proudly call themselves the Shadow Legion. They are the ones who started the Shadow War igniting fires of revolution and uproar on evry continent managing to avoid a Soviet civil war building a nuclear armed rogue state and then escorting it in the shadows to greatness. They are trained to strike at any target anywhere anytime. They take on countries by eliminating targets, using crime syndicates and then blowing their guts out, establishing smuggling routes, overtaking businesses and fueling revolutions. Regardless of their prowess they are war. Perfectly tuned and driven by honor and pride. They can't stay in the shadows for too long. They will strike they always do. Not many things are more frightening and lethal than a spetsnaz strike. Their weakness is their pride. After all they are human they know it but they will newer admit it. History Edited by Exidor, Apr 5 2010, 11:01 AM.
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| King McDonalds 1 | Apr 5 2010, 10:47 AM Post #2 |
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