Turn 74.4 The Eighth Plan(5-Year Plan)
Economy:
Despite everything, the largest issue actually facing the economy is the beginning of a severe labor shortage that no excess degree of mobilization can be used to break out of. Agricultural employment has been re-directed towards the general economy and most workers have become far more productive than the old model of agriculture. Any increase in workers thus is forced to either come from population growth or other enterprises, contributing to costs and raising the selectivity for labor in every aspect. Even then, an increase in wages would be matched in relatively short order by the enterprises that could afford it, leaving the situation the exact same as it was before, just with slightly wealthier workers.
The labor crisis itself has also not managed to significantly raise workforce participation if accounting for agricultural labor. A few more workers are working in industries and modern female workers are going into careers faster than ever, but those movements are a few percentage points of the total rather than any large revolution. Immigration itself is also inherently limited as there are only so many willing immigrants across CMEA that are willing to go into work ignoring the political consequences of increasing immigration. Reducing the rate of mobilization and working to improve labor efficiency in the industrial economy will be core towards developing future growth in the context of the labor force.
The incoming generation is large and ready to work even if wages have remained partially stagnant in spite of the massive increase in general prosperity. Industrial production has inordinately climbed, unfortunately most of the money has remained outside the hands of the general population. Technical wages have climbed in response to the growth of professional workers. Common workers without specialized degrees have beaten inflation though have not gained anything close to the actual growth in productivity across the economy. The effects of the labor reserve have demonstrated that it generally does not depress wage prices, in that it is almost always used as an intermediary contracting service rather than a career, training workers for enterprises.
This has been the worst in the poorer republics with local workers utilized in conditions that are beyond the pale for any domestic laws. Workers in a large portion of the consumer goods complexes were effectively over packed significantly leaving limited working space. Informal increases of hours were also approved, with the job itself requiring an extended shift to prepare for the main shift, effectively acting as additional hours. Conditions were also deliberately kept worse than any expectation as over-packing was combined with deeply substandard structures. A tentative investigation was issued through the state union, but that effectively reported some minor issues ignoring any large claim of guilt. Now that the situation has been revealed the head of the ACCTU has retired rather than dealing with the fallout and a broader wave of investigations has started.
It is almost certain that most conventional common sense regulation has been ignored at all levels of the economy. Actual guilt will take time and a drive for workers to report the worst actions, but given time the worst excesses can be stopped and reformed away. Already a commission has been organized with the ostensible role to monitor work conditions and allow for anonymity in reporting bad managerial practices. The structure itself is almost certain to be at least partially influenced by managerial cadres limiting efficacy but doing something is better than accepting that nothing can be fixed. The Supreme Soviet has already authorized broad powers to the Ministry of Labor to enforce the laws that are currently on the books and curb the worst of the conditions, as to a large extent many of the labor crimes involved have come as a surprise to the center.
Private sector grants have effectively been a constant and persistent case of Voznesensky purchasing whatever influential party members involved in the lower ranks, shuffling the money as a personal party fund. This enabled the fucker to hold an outsized influence on student cadres and practically his own system of funding whatever small business both caught his interest and was politically useful at the time. All of the money spent has been mostly spent for corruption with a mild degree of growth for the businesses most involved in the system. Every mistake has been poured onto Voznesensky and to a lesser extent Malenkov, as it was the latter who provided the tools while the former used them for his own political ends. Direct ministry controlled subsidies to the private sector have effectively been entirely curtailed to prevent anything to the same extent from happening with some reforms for better capital access being considered.
A core factor from the last plan has come in the form of a lack of balanced economic growth between the republics. While the RSFSR and to an extent the more developed republics have gotten a massive quantity of funding for modernization and new industry, there has been a partial perception of other republics receiving only dirty industry with low income jobs. This has been used to rail against the process by many in Kosygin's group, calling the lack of branching responsible for many of the issues involved, as enterprise investment funds are restricted to their locations of development effectively cutting away half of possible investment from poorer republics. To a large extent Voznesensky's hard-line on reform has been seen as an attempt to make the largest republics richer rather than the power base consolidation it likely was, making it far more of a political clusterfuck then it has any reason to be.
Investment funds and the localization of enterprises has effectively been repealed in full with more practical tax limits implemented to improve revenues from large and mid scale enterprises to provide more for the soviet budget. This has been combined with a series of comprehensive tax reforms, reducing general rates for cooperatives especially larger ones and basing the tax rates more on turnover then the number of employees to further encourage investment in the poorer republics. This has led to a severe argument on what exactly a cooperative is and what could be described as one but that is too politically toxic of an issue for the current ministry to ever involve itself except as an advisory role on a larger commission. Effective tax revenues are almost certain to be committed towards state services to give back some of the gains in productivity to the workers, ensuring that they can directly experience every bit of progress made.
Trade Modernization(Effectively New Resource System):
Trade on a resource balance and the supremacy of domestic supplies has effectively been ended in name, if not formally. CMEA integration has only benefited the economy and there is little reason to stay with the obsolescent autarkic mechanisms in the new century. Importations of machinery are still to an extent important for the economy even if the sophistication of the domestic supply is only growing and is almost ready to entirely replace everything outside the most specialized machines. The ministry itself does not have the personnel or the capability to force the ratios to be applied to the economy, much less flexibly adapt the ratios at every point of the economic system. Instead the trade balance has been modernized to include the most essential goods for which imports are essential and a general measure on the prices of goods rather than one on quantities available.
The main product of this is that the most important indicator of goods production outside of areas of total shortage or sanctions will be measured by price point instead of an inflexible measure. If the Union can purchase a megaton of coal at a set rate from Poland, there is no reason to so committedly measure the ratio of the coal moving. Military industry will of course need its own supplies and the costs of excessive import of low quality coal will be problematic even if it is an option now available to us. Marketization has led to the effective float of commodity prices and through further development that mechanism can be used to far more accurately map resource availability. Prices relative to a theoretical labor cost with optimal machinery will be measured, but that is more a definition of the range available instead of any finite mechanism.
Assuming the system of incentive funds is functional, all prices will tend towards a set point as the economy optimizes growth to ensure a steady balance of exports. The view of material balance planning and the relative demand for materials will still necessitate the precise comprehension of electrical production as that cannot be economically moved. All other materials can be shifted towards a new scale depending on the price of domestic and international production. Labor has effectively ceased being easily mobilized as the economy has moved to a system of full employment making the price of labor a far more relevant measure then the raw availability of workers.
Profitability Failures: The expected enterprises across the petrochemical sector that have failed to adopt, a few agricultural ones prioritizing older techniques, and even several conventional heavy industrial enterprises have effectively failed their profitability targets. By running continuous negatives and failing to recoup investments these periodic failures have effectively left the ministry with a significant pile of useless assets through quarterly failures. Most of the enterprises have so far failed due to a variety of individual failures in management as the expected protection did not materialize and Voznesesnky practically made a list of those liable to fail. Continuing to clear the enterprises incapable of making it in the economy has also come with significant political gains, as entire industrial plants have been liberated for the appointment of new personnel.
The plan end policy of their re-allocation however is deeply sub-optimal for any form of prolonged growth and more often than not causes an excessive accumulation of useless assets on the state level. Voznesensky for his many strange ideas has pioneered a quarterly system of reports for the enterprises and significant gains can be made by enforcing the laws that are on the books in maintaining profitability. If an enterprise cannot sustain its own spending, then it should either have reserves, take on debt, or be immediately re-allocated until it is in a sufficient state that it can. This would ensure that equipment does not sit unused and provide a significant improvement in enforcing the law on the enterprises themselves. It is significantly easier to justify firing someone for incompetence even to other managers than it is to try to fight them at every step.
[]Implement New Policies Retroactively: Pushing a hard line on the enterprises will be good political ammunition and enforcing financial responsibility onto them can yield significant benefits. If political appointments can manage the bare minimal level of competence in the system, their fine, if they cannot, they can be filtered out with relative ease. Separating the failures away from the planning system can further avoid an excessive degree of bond hedging around the dates of plans, avoiding biasing investment and ensuring that things are operating in a more reasonable manner. The managers will protest, but the hornets nest has yet to be properly kicked anyways and firing incompetents isn't excessively contentious. (Approximately 200 RpT of failures)
[]Implement New Policies: Delaying the implementation of new policies for a plan will still leave the question of the pile of assets that have been accrued through the last plan. Changing to a more balanced stance however is expected to reduce the public impact and popularity of enforcing the law on what is perceived to be an overarching new elite. Enough idiots are almost certain to fail in the immediate months after the policy is declared. Those however are not the immediate examples to toss to the figurative crowds that would be politically expedient. Saving some of the impact of actually enforcing the law on the managers can make allies, but given there is zero conception of how corrupt anyone is, any allies can just as easily be swept away. (Approximately 100 RpT of failures)
Second Plan Focus:
[]Infrastructure: The state of road infrastructure across the Union is horrific to say the least, even the last surge into their development has only minimally addressed the problem. Continuing to make the construction industry work and ensuring that it is free of the past excesses will take some political maneuvering, but that too can be more than compensated for. The priority if a focus is taken will go towards addressing the state of roads first along with the further development of other infrastructure. Airports have been ignored in favor of prestige projects and the Union still must continue to expand both its industries and its power grid to keep up with the rest of the world. (+6 Infra Dice)
[]Light and Chemical Industry: Light industry has brought massive returns to the Union across the last plan and has consistently led profitability indicators time and time again. Sending funding into the sector may not produce as many cheap high capacity returns as initial projects have called for, but significant returns can still be made without too many costs incurred. Avoiding the previous excesses and a stringent enforcement of labor law will be essential to distance the current ministry from the last administration, but with enough money that too can be done. Infrastructure construction will face cutbacks along with some enterprises likely failing in the next plan. (+6 LCI Dice)
Spending Levels:
[]15+15% GNP: Economic deceleration from the utter high point the last plan has left the ministry with to an extent is necessary, if only to reduce the demand for labor and allow the conditions of full employment to dissipate. Increasing capital costs are expected to mount if the boom is artificially extended, leaving significant problems. This will induce more failures of enterprises that have failed to modernize and a general economic slowdown, but by giving time for the development of population resources a far larger plan can be conducted after this one. (2900 All Cause RpT)
[]20+10% GNP: The enterprises have to a large extent led into this mess of a ministry and enabled the worst impulses of Voznesensky. Cutting them back can be a way to accrue some influence from the Supreme Soviet at the same time as reducing the ability for the flexible development of the economy. Increased general spending is expected to primarily be conducted towards shoring up the weakest sectors of the Union and finalizing the state of infrastructure construction. This may be one of the few points in the plan where more funding can be secured without too many external political issues, but the internal reorganizations will bite even harder. The enterprises receiving a funding cut will ensure that even the mildest will see it as a betrayal of the general system and push hard for new leadership. (3500 All Cause RpT)
[]20+15% GNP: High spending has to some extent brought in the current mess but the Union is wealthy enough to spend itself out of the gap rather than relying on anything else. A mild reduction in funding is to a large extent politically expected and the larger spending of political influence will come from continuing to fund the enterprises. An advantage can however come from continuing the funding as it's impossible that everyone is guilty of true excesses as Voznesesnky was too busy fighting half the bastards. Accepting that some of the managers will have to be co opted and arguing for only a slight funding decrease is politically tolerable and any side eyes from Kosygin can be compensated for by calling in favors from the previous votes on agriculture, ensuring that grumbling can be kept to a minimal extent. (3500 All Cause RpT)
Plan Target Proposals:
[]Balanced Planning: Rather than going off to chase any one specific area of improvement, a more balanced approach can be taken to improve every area of the Union. Consumer growth as a consequence of the last plan can be continued through moderate increases in employment, the conventional industry can be grown through improving energy access, and a moderate program of computational integration and road vehicles should be sufficient to meet targets in capital goods. Massive growth of the service sector will take time and not come quickly, but it will be possible with strong investment in cooperation with investments into areas of enhanced profitability. (40% MFPG, 25% Capital Goods, 50% Consumer Goods, 20% Agricultural, and 50% Service Sector Valuation Increase)
[]Bypassing Agriculture: Agriculture is a mess and there are no good ways of fixing it without a large degree of work. By arguing that the sector needs reorganization and time to do something with it, the plan can be organized on an alternative basis. The continued extraction of personnel from the agricultural sector will hurt the sector however as long as current innovations and improvements continue the trend that should be sufficient to compensate for any deficiency. The service goal will be challenging and involve the tapping of new cadres and the movement of a significant portion of workers. It should be doable assuming immediate strong investments are made and commitments are maintained. Conventional modernization of the machinery and consumer sector may not be enough, but that depends more on the resources committed than on the capability of the ministry. (45% MFPG, 25% Capital Goods, 60% Consumer Goods, 15% Agricultural, and 65% Service Sector Valuation Increase)
[]Service Focused: Expanding the production of the service sector as the greatest priority and avoiding other commitments is not going to be the most popular move, arguably however it is the most economically correct one. High turnover services have been ignored in favor of high throughput production, leaving the Union with few institutions to manage the economies of ever increasing complexity. Maintaining current incentive funds are expected to more than compensate in other sectors with a reasonable balance of investments into power and modernization. Consumer goods will have to start difficult work in automation to provide workers for the service sector. (30% MFPG, 20% Capital Goods, 40% Consumer Goods, 20% Agricultural, and 65% Service Sector Valuation Increase)
[]Recovering Agriculture: The previous revolutions in improving yields and their reliability are no less applicable to every farm in the Union no matter how it is operated. Ensuring the even distribution of new farming techniques and the continued increase in fertilization along with new crop strains can drive the Union into a new age of agricultural plenty. Every meal may not yet be able to have meat, but every worker will be able to enjoy meat at least once a day, if not more. The agricultural sector is what started the entire planning system and to neglect it would be to undermine competitiveness. Other targets can be reduced in the view of the necessity of salvaging the agricultural sector. Solving the problems of small agriculture can move more workers out of poverty than anything else, and would only help consolidate the government. (35% MFPG, 20% Capital Goods, 50% Consumer Goods, 30% Agricultural, and 55% Service Sector Valuation Increase)
[]Technical Planning: The technical industry is the most important for modernization and one that forms the core of much of our production. New capital goods production is necessary both to diversify the sector and to provide for the great modernization of industry. A milder goal can be taken in other areas, expanding the service sector to compensate for labor liberated from industry. Automation is here and is almost certainly only going to become a more pervasive element in industry. Accepting that and ensuring that there are domestic sources of most conventional automatic machinery and pioneering computational control of processes can help to bring the Union entirely into modernity. Consumer goods growth can be deprioritized to an extent, expanding production for domestic use and exports but as long as a sufficient allocation towards the enterprises is made, enough growth should be sufficiently easy to induce. (30% MFPG, 30% Capital Goods, 40% Consumer Goods, 20% Agricultural, and 60% Service Sector Valuation Increase)
Automatic Projects (Automated things you may want to build/Have to build) (Displayed in old notation pre Conversion) (Expect a power demand curve between 100-150 over the course of the plan)
Housing Construction Efforts(Selection Required):
-[]3 Infrastructure Dice: Given the sheer disruption caused by the last housing program and the extent of change it has forced onto people without much desire for it, cutting it back is arguably the best political decision. A well run program without the sheer tempo and idiocy of the Voznesensky years will inherently be slower and require a more measured and distributed pace of development rather than a drive towards urban concentration. Most of the designs prioritized will be cheaper and smaller ones relative to the massive towers prioritized in the last effort, reducing some costs and ensuring that lower density urban concentrations can be maintained. (180 RpT)
-[]5 Infrastructure Dice: The last housing program made several major mistakes, but that does not discredit the housing program, just the imbeciles running it. Repurposing the general program towards regenerating lower density urban areas along with some central developments in urban cores the general drive can be balanced and significantly improved. New designs with further facades can be combined to improve the appearance of cities if not completely implemented in the timeframe of the current plan. The move out of communal housing will still noy be completed given the population growth rate. Measured construction in this plan and the next plan can finalize the transition. (320 RpT)
-[]7 Infrastructure Dice: First and second generation housing is at this point primarily obsolescent and considered to be lower quality. Rather than trying to rush through an abstract goal of shoving every worker into an apartment, standards can be raised and a broad renovation program initiated. New facades with improved thermal properties, universal climate control for units in hot climates, and measures to adopt improved interiors can be started and prioritized over new construction. This will ensure that at the worst much of the housing stock available will be internally renovated and similar to the newest builds of the fourth generation of housing and provide a comprehensive basis for further work. (480 RpT)
[]Hydroelectric Power:
-[]Amur Cascade: The political sensitivity of the Amur river and its tributaries is immense. Development in the region is important for local power supplies and further industrial development. Daming the actual Amur is too much of an international political situation to ever allow, the rivers feeding into it however are almost entirely on our side of the border. Their damming will involve a degree of moderate relocations as small towns are consolidated though the small scale will keep the costs down. Localization of a significant aluminum industry from secondary sources is expected to provide a good supply of material to local factories, and the stabilization of the river system is expected to provide a viable route for exports. (1 Infrastructure dice) (-60 RpT) (+100 Electricity +60 Non-Ferrous) (Completion across 1969-1972) (Completes Far-Eastern Water Reservoirs)
-[]Upper Ob-Irtysh Cascade: The most technically challenging cascade due to the number of villages in the way of planned development routes. Urban water supplies and enabling further irrigation along with power supplies in the developed belt is more important, but additive costs for relocations and a measured system of new housing construction will cause the project to be comparatively expensive. The already developed infrastructure in the region is expected to significantly aid in the construction, limiting how much supporting construction will be necessary for the development of dams. (2 Infrastructure dice) (-120 RpT) (+280 Electricity +30 Non-Ferrous) (Completion across 1968-1973)
-[]Upper Lena Cascade: The Lena is the strongest and largest river in the Union for its basin's sheer hydro potential. Discounting the more remote segments, the river itself has barely been tapped and much of the population needing to be relocated is in tiny villages across the North, reducing costs. The issue of developing the Lena is that there is very little to be done near the basin and many of the power demanding applications are located to the South. Developing further barge infrastructure is expected to help allow for some power intensive production to be localized, but the installations will almost entirely produce aluminum from the secondary ores available to the Union. (3 Infrastructure dice) (-160 RpT) (+200 Electricity +200 Non-Ferrous) (Completion across 1969-1975)
-[]Krasnoyarsk-Irkutsk Hydroelectric Zone: With lagging iron mining and the lack of development across the Union, building a new high potential electrical and industrial zone to augment the general plan can be a major asset. The Bakchar deposit represents some of the largest reserves of iron ore available to the Union and its development will enable a further increase in conventional industry and steel production. The zone itself is mostly swampy and poorly inhabited, limiting the costs of relocating people and ensuring that development can proceed without issue. Some local aluminum plants in both Omsk and Irkutsk are expected to be founded, ensuring that power supplies are available and ensuring that the Union can keep up to the West in the production of Aluminum.(3 Infrastructure dice) (-180 RpT) (+200 Electricity +80 Non-Ferrous) (Three +150 Steel Steel mills available 9th 5yp) (Completion across 1969-1974)
-[]Amu Darya and Syr Danya Hydroelectric Cascades: Politically contentious with the local people though pushed for hydrological stabilization by engineers and politicians at all levels, authorizing development is expected to significantly increase water accessibility and local energy generation. The program towards constructing new dams and enhancing the industrial development of the Central Asian republics is expected to fix water availability issues and provide a cheap basis for hydroelectricity that has been ignored by past administrations. Relocations will involve several sizable towns being moved to allow for the path of the dams and a minor cutback in the scale of the project. Despite that though, the developing water situation is only expected to worsen in the next few years, requiring redirection and ensuring that nature is finally directed towards humanist ends. (3 Infrastructure dice) (-180 RpT) (+350 Electricity +80 Non-Ferrous) (One +150 Steel Steel mill available 9th 5yp) (Automatically Completes Normal and Advanced Hydrological Stabilization Measures) (Completion across 1968-1974)
[]Power Plant Construction(Nuclear VVER-500):
-[]1 Heavy Industry Die: A commitment to new experimental technologies is significant and could be an important source of power in the future, but it is currently deeply uneconomic. The construction of sixteen mainline reactor cores along with two experimental cores will establish a basis for energy production and the development of the fast neutron spectrum. The cores themselves are expected to steadily take off the burden of conventional heating and provide the associated cities with clean nuclear heating and energy. Construction is to be finalized across the next plan, as the technical aspects of the construction are notable and each general multi-core facility is in itself a complicated system of both piping and construction. (-150 RpT) (18 Electricity 3 Coal -1 Workforce per Turn) (Completion across 1970-1975)
[]Power Plant Construction(CPSC): (Available outside of autodice)
-[]0 Heavy Industry Dice: With a massive focus on the construction of alternative power sources and a non-distributed scheme of coal power plant construction it is theoretically possible to avoid next generation coal power generation. This is arguably suboptimal though with the limitations in canal construction and the massive domestic demand for coal there are some that wish to delay expanding the coal power sector. The older generation plants built on pre-war schemes will effectively entirely be retired through this plan, bringing the baseline for the grid towards semi-modern turbines, if operating at lower steam pressure. (-10 Electricity 5 Coal 1 Workforce per Turn)
-[]1 Heavy Industry Die: New technologies are available to more optimally utilize coal for power generation, significantly improving efficiency and effectively costing very little coal. The improvement in efficiency compared to the oldest plants will allow for the coal burden of the plants to be more then half compensated with new construction more than overtaking the entire old grid to decisively improve the general power situation. New thermal plans and technologies are almost certain to be cheaper than any other power technology, and it is unlikely that any nearby technology will overtake them. (-120 RpT) (25 Electricity -4 Coal)
-[]2 Heavy Industry Dice: Large increases in coal power generation are needed to keep the Union supplied with power. The gas industry is capable of supplying some, but with a strong commitment towards expanding canal works and several large scale coking plants to take advantage of the high carbon and low ash sub-bituminous coals in the East. Conventional expansions of coal extraction from Kuzbas is expected to even further reduce the cost of coal and make coal power production the predominant form of cheap and accessible energy across the Union. (-240 RpT) (60 Electricity -13 Coal -1 Workforce per Turn)
-[]3 Heavy Industry Dice: The ease of mobilization of the coal system and the massive expected returns from the construction of the canal system along with virgin coals in the East are expected to usher in a revolution in energy production. A massive buildup of new coal capacity can more than compensate for any shortfall in production and do so for comparatively little industrial effort. There is little exceptional in a high pressure coal system outside of the alloying involved and with expanding industrial production that too can be overcome. The old plants can be modernized and a new drive towards conventional power can be started to maximally develop the economy. (-370 RpT) (95 Electricity -22 Coal -2 Workforce per Turn)
[]Power Plant Construction(CCGT):
-[]1 Light Industry Die: Gas power systems have worked perfectly in the course of the next plan and offer some of the most logistically flexible sources of power, eliminating the need for the costly transportation of energy resources. Work on further developing the grid can be slowed in favor of other less expensive power source commitments. The current gas surplus is best utilized rather than exported out anyway, doing something with the current production rather than effectively venting it. Further, newer gas plants are comparatively clean in comparison to coal ones, allowing for a general reduction in smog burden in the areas they are constructed. (-140 RpT) (40 Electricity -1 Workforce per Turn) (Gas Plants available in LCI)
-[]2 Light Industry Dice: A direct drive towards increasing power production is expected to be necessary with the growth of consumer and industrial power use, especially as the economy continues its march towards modernization. Increased utilization of gas reserves and a continuation of the old power program will deliver significant gains in production and enable a considerable step forward. The plants responsible for making the turbines will not need to be expanded compared to the last plan, especially since much of the challenging and technical work has been completed. (-280 RpT) (80 Electricity -1 Workforce per Turn) (3 More Gas development projects)
-[]3 Light Industry and 1 Heavy Industry Dice: Committing to further expand the production of large-scale combustion turbines over the plan is a major investment, but one that is necessary for increasing gas power use. Work will immediately start on expanding several major turbine-producing plants to allow for a greater quantity of construction along with starting the technical bridge to bring conventional oils into the power sector, allowing for the total efficient utilization of the Union's resources. The necessary expansions in production will eventually shift towards the construction of even more plants even if it takes time and a significant portion of the funding. (-450 RpT) (104 Electricity -2 Workforce per Turn) (7 More Gas development projects) (Enables Gas Power Funding up to 3 Dice in the 9th plan)
Healthcare(Selection Required):
-[]1 Services Die: The effective shortage of specialized medical personnel is something that the Union is still stuck dealing with despite the effort put into training new doctors. Supplies are almost certain to be sufficient in a decade, but something needs to be done now about the current healthcare situation. Accepting that regional clinics will not be able to do major operations, procedures, and will have to refer patients to larger urban clinics a plan can be made. Modernization and expansion funds can be spent on larger urban hospitals, saving some funding and ensuring that top end medical care is available where it is necessary. (60 RpT)
-[]2 Services Dice: A massive expansion and making sure that every citizen can have access to some form of healthcare, even if it is not the best quality, will do a lot to improve health outcomes. There are plenty of younger inexperienced general purpose doctors graduating from the education system that are suitable to be distributed as a first line for emergency medicine. The funding will mostly go towards the building of a few standardized clinics with a few beds and a capacity to address mild general cases along with building up transportation infrastructure for transportation. Modernization of the system will have to be delayed due to a lack of capacity as saving people is more important then more accurate diagnostics. (130 RpT)
-[]3 Services Dice: Admitting that the healthcare sector has been ignored from modernization with only few hospitals having the most modern techniques is politically problematic even if it is accurate. Instead of chasing the higher end of capacity and making sure that triage services are sufficient, a drive towards ensuring that the average medical worker has access to advanced diagnostic testing and that every clinic has a minimum standard of accuracy can do more than a horde of doctors. Imported techniques and medical students can help to bring in the most modern methodologies into education. Further, by separating some of the more specialty procedures from emergency medicine some capacity can be freed to effectively expand the general system. (240 RpT)
Education Expansions(Selection Required):
-[]2 Services Dice: Saving some funding on expanding tertiary education to address the deficient secondary education system is the only viable low cost option that could be applied. Full priority will be placed on extending the conventional curriculum under all routes towards a full eleven years in a five-three-three year system with filtering at the ending phase to enable some specialization. The Universities can make do without funding for a time but the schools are the largest producer of new educated personnel and cannot be compromised on. By extending the curriculum for university seeking students and general path students math can be slightly extended while providing a balanced basis in language and historical analysis. (70 RpT)
-[]3 Services Dice: Limited university expansions along with further reform of the secondary education system is expected to improve the general supply of well rounded soviet citizens. The commitment of a steady amount of funding will enable a steady comprehensive expansion of the secondary schooling system to a universal eleven year scheme, ensuring that every child can receive a full education. Universities will continue funding along the old scheme with updated ratios of specialties to ensure that the personnel graduating are far better suited to the economy of the future. General increases in the social sciences and arts are expected to provide more choice for students and ensure that the next generation is far better rounded than any before it. (110 RpT)
-[]4 Services Dice: Unfucking the university and education system in the aftermath of the massive over emphasis on technical education will take more time than is available in the current plan. The sector is comparatively mature with the few professors needed to teach classes effectively experienced and already publishing research. The planned extension of the secondary education system can be conducted along with the main focus of the modernization effort. A massive expansion of the university system is to be conducted with social science departments added to most schools along with a number of dedicated specialized schools established in the old model. Enough personnel that have the soft skills for most work will take decades to bring up. In decades though they will exist rather than the current endless supply of engineers. (160 RpT)
24 Hour Moratorium Vote By Plan
