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That Time I Became A Dictator Of A Small Asian Communist Nation

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HeroCooky said:
Oh, no, you only need to build the physical factories for the planes with Airy Might and then you're golden.
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That tentatively frees up an action next turn then... we might be able to do Food for Tractors. We'll probably also want to show off the Carrier to the Chinese to also improve CO before we have to spend a bunch of it on the possible Sino-Soviet Rapprochement at the end of the plan.

Speaking of... I made flags!


Flag of the Communist Development Alliance (ComDevA), colloquially known as the Triple Alliance in the West, representing the economic and diplomatic alliance between the PRC, USSR, and Guangchou ratified in 1980.

(I was aiming for something just lightly ominous. :p )



Flag of the Cybernetic Pact (CyPac), the international alliance of smaller communist states founded by Guangchou based on principles of mutual aid, developmentalism, anti-imperialism, and cybernetic planning.

(Red for communism and hapiness, gold for wealth and computer circuits, the circuit tree representing growth through cybernetic planning.)
 
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from a google search it looks like a moderate on cultural revolution (toned it down alot but didnt end it completely) and all in on planned economy. Let's hope he can fight the Dengites off

EDIT: We should probobly share our tech with the soviets, get thier economy back up and running so they dont pull a historical
 
Emphar said:
from a google search it looks like a moderate on cultural revolution (toned it down alot but didnt end it completely) and all in on planned economy. Let's hope he can fight the Dengites off

EDIT: We should probobly share our tech with the soviets, get thier economy back up and running so they dont pull a historical
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My plan right now is to negotiate a rapprochement between the PRC and USSR by dangling advanced electronics and cybernetic planning systems in front of both and do something like: Guangchou supplies the USSR with electronics and cybernetic planning systems to revive their stagnant economy, the USSR uses that newly revived economy to aid the industrialization and development of China, and in exchange both the USSR and PRC agree to adopt a cooperative anti-imperialist and developmentalist foreign policy as well as normalizing trade relations.

I'm running it by other people with more knowledge of history to see if it checks out.
 
Now, I'm admittedly pretty smoothbrain here, but I can see what the USSR gets out of it, and I can see what the PRC gets out of it, but I'm missing what we're getting out of it other than the bear and the dragon smiling at us, and there are much cheaper ways of getting smiles (like rationalizing the language).

I'm also missing what motive the USSR has not to simply take our gifts and then stop picking up the phone when we call.
 
The issue is that the infighting isn't going to be settled for a few years. If Deng comes out on top, well, history shows he's more to be much more flexible on the subject of capitalism in the economy and keep up the split. The rapprochement didn't come to Gorbachev, and well... we know how that ended.

The problem is that, while we have a good carrot to dangle, the USSR and PRC started to diverge greatly in terms of political aids after Stalin. As Kennan observed, the two nations, though communist, were also very much modern continuations of their past Russian and Chinese empires, each their their own priorities. And of course the Soviets (including in-quest right now) have never quite stopped partying like it's 1929 - ie: every aspiring communist looked to Moscow-senpai to show them the way.

There was also a heavy element of Mao's personal reaction towards Khrushchev and how he denounced Stalin (in part because he saw it could set an example given how he was taking heat for the Great Leap Forward and other fuckups at the time.) There was of course, at least one near-conflict that broke out in the middle of the Cultural Revolution after all. Given how central he was to the CPC, it's hard to simply shuck the shadow of his influence.
 
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Barondoctor said:
Now, I'm admittedly pretty smoothbrain here, but I can see what the USSR gets out of it, and I can see what the PRC gets out of it, but I'm missing what we're getting out of it other than the bear and the dragon smiling at us, and there are much cheaper ways of getting smiles (like rationalizing the language).

I'm also missing what motive the USSR has not to simply take our gifts and then stop picking up the phone when we call.
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We get a reunified communist bloc and likely a smaller chance that people like Gorby and Deng come to power due to a more robust planned economy. There's more to the world then just our nation, we also need to make sure the cold war doesnt go like it did in real life and lose all our trade partners
 
Barondoctor said:
Now, I'm admittedly pretty smoothbrain here, but I can see what the USSR gets out of it, and I can see what the PRC gets out of it, but I'm missing what we're getting out of it other than the bear and the dragon smiling at us, and there are much cheaper ways of getting smiles (like rationalizing the language).

I'm also missing what motive the USSR has not to simply take our gifts and then stop picking up the phone when we call.
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Well, the Russians would be reliant importing Guangchou electronics - we're not giving them the actual infrastructure, we're giving them products they can use.

My initial thoughts on Guangchou was that by reducing the amount of friction between the PRC and USSR and the aversarial politiking they do abroad, it makes it easier for us to peddle our brand of communism on the international stage, and the normalization of trade relations would let us sell stuff to both of them. We can also make the benefits to us a bit more direct by calling for industrial aid - we have a whole national rail network and a shit ton of housing that we still need to build. And food imports wouldn't go amiss either.
 
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CyberEnby said:
We can also make the benefits to us a bit more direct by calling for industrial aid - we have a whole national rail network and a shit ton of housing that we still need to build. And food imports wouldn't go amiss either.
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That will probably help the KGB and PRC-intelligence people relax a bit.

"It's a deal I came up with because I wanted some industrial aid and food imports. It's a deal where everybody gets what they want that happens to have a bunch of really convenient side effects," is a lot easier to sell than "Hi, we're a jumped-up country two generations from subsistence farming and we're going to lead you around by the nose with this really nice bait because we happen to have the historical arrogance to think we know better. Can I put you down for two really nice baits?"
 
Barondoctor said:
"It's a deal I came up with because I wanted some industrial aid and food imports. It's a deal where everybody gets what they want that happens to have a bunch of really convenient side effects," is a lot easier to sell than "Hi, we're a jumped-up country two generations from subsistence farming and we're going to lead you around by the nose with this really nice bait because we happen to have the historical arrogance to think we know better. Can I put you down for two really nice baits?"
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I mean Russia and China are essentially also jumped-up countries two (if not one) generation from subsistence farming...
 
at the very least we could ask for stuff that gives us alot of Rep. however Industrial aid would also Work if its anything like the Reparations/payments we got.
 
Ramble said:
Reminded of this


View: https://youtu.be/7Z_gTGJc7nQ

I wonder if we should look for export contracts or something to get in on that economy of scale stuff.
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Economy of scale tends to require the ability to do lots and lots of thing. We are a tiny island nation. I'm not great shakes at economics, but something tells me our best angle is some form of specialty good (i.e. our electronics, tech, and computing).
 
Barondoctor said:
Economy of scale tends to require the ability to do lots and lots of thing. We are a tiny island nation. I'm not great shakes at economics, but something tells me our best angle is some form of specialty good (i.e. our electronics, tech, and computing).
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On the other hand, automation is very good at doing lots and lots of a thing, and things like jets *are* specialty goods.

Indeed, part of why I gave the Ananta the trait 'Cheap to Build and Operate' was precisely so we can offer it on the export market at a very competitive price.

If we pull off Sino-Soviet Rapprochement with us getting industrial and food aid, that will actually position us very well to focus on specialty goods because we're offloading the basics onto their much larger economies.

It's not a strategy without some risk, but by giving everyone the thing they desire most, and making sure everyone has a way to exert pressure on everyone else, it should prevent an excess of posturing.
 
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CyberEnby said:
On the other hand, automation is very good at doing lots and lots of a thing, and things like jets *are* specialty goods.
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Automation tends to require circumstances without variation, especially in this time period. Great for machine assembly though. It's doable, though, and I'd especially recommend it for anything hazardous as a means of reducing work-related-injury to our people.

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It's not a strategy without some risk, but by giving everyone the thing they desire most, and making sure everyone has a way to exert pressure on everyone else, it should prevent an excess of posturing.
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As much as I like the idea of bringing everything together and becoming the third leg of a sino-soviet communism triumvirate, "playing nice with others" and "allowing for dependency on others even as part of an interdependent mutually beneficial arrangement" aren't exactly skills that USSR or Chinese heads of state select for as much as things like "ability to project strength" and "ability to instill discipline and get everybody going the same direction".

I don't see any reason they shouldn't take it, but the venn diagram between "things heads of state should do" and "things heads of state actually do" is...a venn diagram and not just a circle.

I would love if we could get some back-channel diplomacy stuff going with them, if just to give us a feel for how likely they are to go for it and what, if any, acceptable changes would make them more likely to go for it.
 
Barondoctor said:
Automation tends to require circumstances without variation, especially in this time period. Great for machine assembly though. It's doable, though, and I'd especially recommend it for anything hazardous as a means of reducing work-related-injury to our people.



As much as I like the idea of bringing everything together and becoming the third leg of a sino-soviet communism triumvirate, "playing nice with others" and "allowing for dependency on others even as part of an interdependent mutually beneficial arrangement" aren't exactly skills that USSR or Chinese heads of state select for as much as things like "ability to project strength" and "ability to instill discipline and get everybody going the same direction".

I don't see any reason they shouldn't take it, but the venn diagram between "things heads of state should do" and "things heads of state actually do" is...a venn diagram and not just a circle.

I would love if we could get some back-channel diplomacy stuff going with them, if just to give us a feel for how likely they are to go for it and what, if any, acceptable changes would make them more likely to go for it.
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Yeah. That's the kicker, things get a lot harder for us if they decide to do some sort of pro gamer move. I think we can burn CO to influence China, but the USSR is going to be an altogether different game. The best I can hope for is to put their regime on life support and holt it there long enough for a new generation to take over.
The good thing is that the leadership there has started to realize how fucked things are getting, and is offering a silver bullet to their economic woes should be very, very tempting.

We do have two actions free in the penultimate turn, and hopefully we can use them to set the scene and predispose them more favorably towards us.

Right now I'm waiting to see how our updated R&D agreement goes over.
 
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1978 - H2 - Aerial Developments Arise As The Ground Is Made Habitable
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    • [X] [COMMIEWOOD] CommiePop
    (In a departure from the visual medium, Commiewood focuses on releasing several music albums featuring their take on western pop music. The (cheekily) so-called CommiePop genre borrows the repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length, basic format, and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to that Pop is known for but engages heavily with political and social themes instead of eschewing them.)

    [X] [PLAN] Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy
    -[X] Infrastructure
    --[X] Build Your School-System (Mega-Project - 25/40 Actions - +5 Per Turn Automatic Progress) (2 Actions, LOCKED)
    --[X] Create New Housing (Helpful)
    ---[X] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation) (3 Actions) (Bonus: +1 Popular Demand)
    -[X] Agri-, And Aquaculture
    --[X] Create Insect Farms (-1 Reputation) (Helpful)
    -[X] Military
    --[X] Design A Native (Fighter) Plane (+3 Reputation) (Sub-vote) (Bonus: +2 omake)
    --[X] Design A Native (Transport) Plane (+3 Reputation) (Sub-vote) (Bonus: +2 omake)
    -[X] Social
    --[X] Improve Foreign Intelligence Service
    ---[X] Industrial Espionage in the West (-1 Reputation) (Suspicious) (Bonus: +1 Any Spy Action)
    -[X] Political
    --[X] Deepen The Special Relationship: USSR (-2 CO)
    --[X] Populists & Internationalists
    ---[X] Send Enbies To Establish A Formal Relationship
    ----[X] Afghanistan
    -----[X] Gifts From the East
    -[X] Secret Projects
    --[X] Experimental Nuclear Reactor (Mega-Project - 1/10 Actions) (+3 Reputation) (Bonus: +5 China Aid)
    -[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
    --[X] Personal Action: Wei is making you attend some seminars at Mingxiang after getting fed up with your lack of engineering sense.
    --[X] Personal Action: Go out among the refugees incognito and see if there are any issues you should be aware of that aren't filtered up through official channels.
    --[X] Lover Action: Beach episode with the family. You kids are old enough now to enjoy themselves, and you and Mai would undoubtedly appreciate the break.

    [X] [Fighter Plane] Air Defense Fighter Type 3
    [X] [Transport Plane] General Transport Aircraft Type 1
    [X] [Fighter Plane] Air Defense Fighter Type 3
    "When you go up in this plane, and you've got the stick in one hand and the throttle in the other, the wind beneath your wings, you lose yourself. You don't have to look down at dials and gauges; you don't have to fight the controls. The line between woman and machine blurs, and you feel like you have become one. No self. Anattā."
    -    Irina Popova (1979)



    "The Anatta displays the distinctive gray radar absorbent paint associated with stealth aircraft. Please note the lighter-colored edge treatments applied to gaps to absorb incoming radar waves before they can scatter off the sharp breaks in the aircraft skin. Above, we see the distinctive red and black tail fins of its airshow livery."
    -Airplane Enthusiast Weekly #299

    Name: Air Defense Fighter Type 3
    Nickname: "Anata" (NATO reporting name "Fairy")
    Type: Light Fighter
    Branch(es): Airy
    Intended Role: Multirole/Air Superiority Fighter
    Notable Quirks:
    • Almost Stealth
    • Great Situational Awareness
    • Cheap to Build and Operate
    • Slow Supercruise
    • Sluggish At Low Speed
    • No Gun*
    • Room to Grow
    • Joy to Fly
    • Initially derived from the MiG-23 airframe, the Anatta's fuselage was rapidly redesigned towards the end of its development cycle to take advantage of the aerodynamic breakthroughs in vortex lift developed for the MiG-29 (its aerodynamics being identical across both domestic and export variants, and thus not subject to restrictions when it came to tech sharing).
    • This left it with the body of a MiG-29, but the radar and engine derived from the MiG-23.
    • An eclectic blend of eastern and western military aviation doctrines: on the one hand, you have an emphasis on energy theory and stealth that's very far removed from the Soviet focus on performance and maneuverability. On the other hand, while the USAF learned that it couldn't rely on missiles on Vietnam, Guangchou only saw a promising technology going through its teething problems and adopted the Soviet roketnaset concept for the air-superiority role.
    • The Anatta also incorporates partial stealth. With Guangchou's supercomputers being used for economic planning, the opportunity cost of monopolizing them for geometrical stealth optimization was too high, and a relatively simplified geometrical stealth program would have resulted in unacceptable aerodynamic performance for a fighter. As such, the Anatta development team went for the low-hanging fruits of the RCS reduction tree.
    • The first and most important design change was to obscure the engine fan and compressor from direct observation from the front. This was done by redesigning the intake into a split-s lined with several centimeters of RAM on the interior. This would attenuate incoming radar waves and absorb ones reflected from the engine fan. The intakes were also changed from a rectangular cross-section to a parallelogram to eliminate corner reflections.
    • The second major part of reducing radar cross section comes from the RAM mentioned above. This takes the form of a paint made of tiny iron balls coated with an electrical insulator embedded inside a polymer substrate. Several different balls are used and painted in layers to present incoming radar waves with a material of increasing density with depth. An automated robotic painting rig was designed to reduce cost and downtime in applying the paint to the aircraft in the field.
    • An indium-tin-oxide layer over sensor windows and the pilot canopy prevents radar waves from getting into the plane and bouncing around like a corner reflector.
    • Fun Fact: Because the US tested their planes in the middle of the desert, they missed the fact that the F-22 stealth paint was sensitive to moisture, leading to the plane's reputation as a hangar queen. Guess what issue an island nation caught early?
    • The third major part of RCS reduction was primitive geometric stealth, which was done more based on gut feelings and rules of thumb than any quantitative analysis to save time and resources. For instance, the V-tail shrouds the exhaust and reduces RADAR reflections from the sides compared to a vertical rudder, large unitary skin panels reduce the number of edges that have to be stealthed, and fixed ramp intakes mean there's less variable geometry to bounce a radar reflection from, skin roughness is minimized in general for the same reason, etc.
    • Taken all together, these measures do about 80% of the work of RCS reduction for only about 20% of the effort compared to the F-22. However, detection range scales with the fourth power of RCS, so these measures only give a 20-30% reduction in detection range compared to a design that does 100% of the work, like the F-22.
    • For its time, the Anatta is actually very good, though the built-in RCS reduction and enlarged radar compared to its MiG-23 and 29 parents mean that it can usually get off the first missile launch, and the glass cockpit and bubble canopy give the pilots much better situational awareness than the MiG-23 if they do get into a dogfight. This is especially true if two Anattas operate in a hunter-killer mode where a plane in the rear will illuminate the target while one in front closes in using only passive radar.
    • The plane's electro-hydrostatic actuators are much simpler to maintain than the traditional hydraulic system and lighter to boot. When combined with the maintenance light 'Faster' engine, it means the plane has the lowest ratio of flight/maintenance hours out of any combat aircraft at the time, making it very cheap to operate.
    • The airfare is primarily made of aluminum alloy isogrids to keep costs low - the extra machining cost being absorbed by the CNC mills available to Guangchou.
    • A dedicated avionics bay houses a central computer based on the Tigerlink terminal developed for the Iron Tiger. This computer is responsible for managing the aircraft's relaxed stability and engine, as well as ECM and ECCM.
    • The more powerful engine combined with the drag reduction incidental to stealth shaping also allows the aircraft to maintain a very modest supercruise of Mach 1.1, allowing it to spend longer at supersonic speed compared to purely afterburner-based propulsion. However, the plane's overall top speed with an afterburner has been reduced from Mach 2.35 at altitude to Mach 1.9 as a result of eliminating the variable geometry elements of the ramp intakes - a change necessary to meet RCS reduction targets and reduce the overall cost of the aircraft, but which does degrade the performance a bit.
    • The plane also gives up some low speed and high AOE maneuvering capability compared to its parent and other fighters under development by our Soviet Allies. Its maneuvering characteristics stress energy maintenance more than the maneuverability emphasized by the USSR. This tradeoff was made to accommodate RCS reduction features and reduce cost and complexity.
    • The engine nozzle is lined with ceramic tiles to reduce heat transfer to the airframe and thus reduce infrared signature and hide as much of the con-div nozzle as possible from RADAR.
    • Immediately behind the cockpit are a combined takeoff intake and air brake. A bi-directional hinge allows the panel to hinge around its rear side when taking off to provide extra lift while allowing the ventral air intakes to be blocked off to prevent debris injection during rough field STOL takeoffs. During landing, the same panel will hinge around the front side simultaneously, pivoting the all-moving v-tails perpendicular to the air stream to serve as air brakes after touchdown.
    • The side-mounted internal weapons bays can mount six missiles - typically four MRAAMs and two SRAAMs, each mounted on an independent trapeze launcher meant to eject the missile and close the bay quickly to reduce the window when the plane is vulnerable to radar scattering off of the interior of the weapon bay.
    • The aircraft is designed to receive numerous upgrades over its lifetime, and an effort has been made to make subsystems as modular as practical. For instance, the internal bays have room to fit more missiles if a double rack is developed, and the hexagonal cupolas mounted above and below the nose stand ready to receive an IRST system in future variants.

    [X] [Transport Plane] General Transport Aircraft Type 1

    (Boeing Truss Braced Wing concept. Just imagine a radome on top of it, and you've basically arrived at what the Tao looks like.)

    Name: General Transport Aircraft Type 1
    Nickname: "Tao" (NATO reporting name "Madam"/"Carol")
    Type: Transport Aircraft
    Branch(es): Airy
    Intended Role: AWACS / Air Freight
    Notable Quirks:
    • Surprisingly normal looking.
    • A standard tube and wing-fuselage with a t-tail empennage.
    • T-Tail is used to get the elevators into the clean air above the prop wash of the engines. This has the happy side effect of also making it easier to load and unload cargo.
    • Elevators are all moving - this lets them be smaller and thus reduces drag and allows them to generate lift while cruising instead of being a source of induced drag like a typically fixed elevator.
    • The wing was inspired by the Hurel-Dubois HD.31 and the Short Skyvan and emphasized endurance at the expense of speed. A long and slender high aspect ratio truss braced wing generates minimal drag but reduces max cruising speed to Mach 0.7 (compared to most other large gets flying at Mach 0.8). The truss is shaped like an airfoil, and the plane derives a non-trivial amount of lift due to that. Their most dramatic feature is the integrated wing-folding actuator, which allows the aircraft to fit inside existing hangars and airfields.
    • The engines use the Faster common engine core, but the propeller blades are where the bulk of R&D for this project went:
    • Rather than creating a gearbox to allow a turbofan's fan to spin slower than its turbine (and thus grow larger and more efficient without tearing itself apart from centrifugal loading), or reducing the aircraft's cruising speed further to Mach 0.5 and using a turboprop, Mingxian's aeronautics council has chased the siren screech of the propfan.
    • Using titanium alloys and their superior computer-aided design systems, they worked backward from the deformed in-motion shape of the transonic propeller. They calculated what the at-rest propfan blades would look like for manufacturing.
    • The twin counter-rotating propfans are much louder than an equivalent turboprop or turbofan, and the aircraft was laid out to keep the crew towards the front and rear. The center, where the engine's sound hits the hull almost perpendicularly, is given over to an airborne supercomputer for the AWACS system. This is combined with issuing the crew radio-enabled noise reduction earmuffs to allow noise levels to be brought down to comfortable levels for long-term operation.
    • Because the engines are mounted relatively high up, and the intakes are far from the ground, they can land from unprepared runways - a crucial part of Guangchou air defense doctrine - and a desirable feature for air freight operators that opens up some unconventional opportunities.
    • Thanks to the advanced electronics available, the Tao can fit an AWACS system into a smaller aircraft than the American E-3 Sentry or the Soviet Beriev A-50 currently under development. This reduces the development and manufacturing costs by going to a medium-haul sized airframe.
    • Unlike the Soviet AWACS of the time, Guangchou opted for a fixed radome with a moving antenna, electing to further streamline the radome into a lifting body to offset its drag.
    • Uses electro-hydrostatic actuators to reduce weight and maintenance, a fly-by-wire system, a glass cockpit to reduce pilot informational load, and IT-derived alloys for strategic reinforcement of its airframe. It creates a robust aircraft that can function despite significant damage or neglect.
    • With the relatively slow speed and low drag wing, the lift-positive empennage, and the incredibly efficient propfans, you have an AWACS that can stay in the air for 12 hours at a time and needs minimal maintenance between flights.
    • If the propfans' noise issue can be resolved, it has the potential to be an excellent passenger jet that can fly everything from medium to long-haul routes. And with further research into transonic truss-braced wings, the top speed may rise to Mach 0.8, bringing it to parity with turbofan-powered jets.
    • With a few upgrades, this plane could be the 737-killer that would give us a dominating position over the passenger and air freight markets.

    [X] [COMMIEWOOD] CommiePop
    (In a departure from the visual medium, Commiewood focuses on releasing several music albums featuring their take on western pop music. The (cheekily) so-called CommiePop genre borrows the repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length, basic format, and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to that Pop is known for but engages heavily with political and social themes instead of eschewing them.)
    Though somewhat a break from their focus on the visual mediums, the music produced by several authorized bands has slowly, and with growing steam, brought change into the musical scene of Guangchou. The borrowed format from the West was converted for the animation of an episode for a fantasy show for its intro. After catching the attention of several staff members, it was pitched for approval in a mass-media campaign. Since then, the songs produced have gained a growing audience and following, from primarily the youth, though several older people have grown to enjoy them. In a bizarre (for those from the West) turn, the oldest generation has a primarily positive outlook upon the new music, seeing the political messages inherent in them as a fun way to teach the "youngin's" what they fought for and what task they will have to pick up in the coming years.

    -[X] Infrastructure
    --[X] Create New Housing (Helpful)
    ---[X] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation) (3 Actions) (Bonus: +1 Popular Demand)
    (10 + 1 = 11 - Boosted, 1 + 1 = 2 - Sub-Optimal, 9 + 1 = 10 - Boosted)
    It seemed like the whole nation was undergoing construction, large towers and housing blocks springing up everywhere, dozens of buildings finishing each week while three dozen more were started. A massive nationwide campaign to improve the standard of living for all, successfully shifting populations from decrepit or failing housing from even before the first world war into modern buildings with flowing water, electricity, and conveniences available to even the newest arriving refugee. Tens of thousands had already been incorporated into the teams working in shifts around the day to construct the buildings, with thousands more set to bolster the effort as city after city is slowly transformed from the haphazard mess brought by the devastation of the second world war, and into ordered grids and planned layouts designed by committees and intellectuals who had studied city after city around the globe to future-proof the effort and reduce any problems to come with incorporating new infrastructures like trains, busses, trams, airports, and more.

    -[X] Agri-, And Aquaculture
    --[X] Create Insect Farms (-1 Reputation) (Helpful)
    (12 - Boosted)
    A visit to the newly created insect farms made to bolster the population's protein intake proved to be as enlightening as fascinating. However, you, personally, could have done without a cricket trying to escape its fate by jumping into your face. The clip is currently being discussed by your PR people if they are fit for distribution as a humanizing aspect. Well, you had been calm throughout that moment, but you would lie if you didn't feel vindication when you imagined that you ate said cricket while testing various foods made from the farmed crickets. But you would be lying if you didn't say that you thought the bread made from cricket wheat would taste as good as it did. The products are set to be distributed as part of the guaranteed meals next week, with each person having an increase of around 120 calories to look forward to.

    -[X] Social
    --[X] Improve Foreign Intelligence Service
    ---[X] Industrial Espionage in the West (-1 Reputation) (Suspicious) (Bonus: +1 Any Spy Action)
    (10 + 1 = 11 - Boosted)
    "Hey, Sam," Jonathan called from the cubicle to my left, looking over the short wall separating us with a conspirational tone and shifty eyes, eager to spread gossip he had likely just heard. "Have you noticed yet? People are saying that there is a commie-spy in the company!"

    "No!" I gasped, carefully continuing to memorize the technical aspects of the hydraulic press we were currently making. "Do you have any idea who it could be?" I asked, faking interest as I knew full well that the false leads I had set up would take care of any investigation.

    "Don't say I told you, but..." he spoke, glancing around in the busy office. "They say Janice is being suspected of being one of them," he added, whispering the last part."

    "By God!" Sergei, from a cubicle over, replied, shaking his head. That we infiltrated the same company as the KGB on accident still boggled my mind, but at the very least, the following binges on booze and food with their team had been fun. "I've always known there was something wrong with that woman! Have you heard about-"

    -[X] Political
    --[X] Deepen The Special Relationship: USSR (-2 CO)
    (9 - Optimal)
    "Something's Fucky." - Stansfield Turner, Director of the CIA (1978)

    "It sure is!" - Yuri Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (1978)

    "Oh, chicken noodle soup! My favorite!" - Zhu Chao, Elected Representative of the Collective Representative Union for Internal Security to guard the Eternal Revolution (1978)

    --[X] Populists & Internationalists
    ---[X] Send Enbies To Establish A Formal Relationship
    ----[X] Afghanistan
    -----[X] Gifts From the East
    (6 - Optimal)
    Allamah Hazim el-Mahdi stood within the Mosque where he had once grown up with a small smile as his hand trailed over the wall where he had, oh so long ago, spent hours upon hours standing in penance after acting up during schooling. This whole place brought peace and solace to his weary body and soul in a way that rest simply could not, especially as people began to murmur, as unrest grew, and talks with his fellows stagnated or grew in places he could have never foreseen. But, then, a short cough brought him out of his brief indulgence in the past, his eyes sharpening upon the group of men currently standing within these sacred halls.

    "We accept," he spoke, a slight glance at the opened crates of guns and pictures promising material assistance to the people stashed in the corner betraying the purpose of the meeting to those who'd like to have it never happen in the first place at all.

    -[X] Secret Projects
    --[X] Experimental Nuclear Reactor (Mega-Project - 1/10 Actions) (+3 Reputation) (Bonus: +5 China Aid)
    (2 + 5 = 7 - Optimal)
    "The ink is dry, the agreement sold, and both sides are moving personnel to the agreed site. Now, we only need to start construction and start up the thing to catapult us into a new age." - Journal entry of a nuclear engineer.

    -[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
    --[X] Personal Action: Go out among the refugees incognito and see if there are any issues you should be aware of that aren't filtered up through official channels.
    (61)
    Notes on possible points of friction and arising problems, as well as solutions:
    Bigoted behavior among the arriving refugees toward non-heterosexuals, with pushback by our people.
    -Propagandize our social norms among the refugees to stave off close-minded and bigoted behavior.
    -Propagandize the nation's need to help the refugees integrate to stave off a xenophobic reaction among the people.

    Increased use of temporary housing instead of permanent residences.
    -Build more housing (duh).

    Cultural rank-closing when interacting with our culture.
    -Create some cultural spaces to allow for better integration.
    -Build cultural workshops to better integrate artisans with ours and boost cultural growth.

    Worries about access to food.
    -Make more food to stave off malnutrition and ease potentially developing hoarding behavior.

    --[X] Lover Action: Beach episode with the family. You kids are old enough now to enjoy themselves, and you and Mai would undoubtedly appreciate the break.
    (73)
    "Ma Li, apologize to your brother for destroying his castle; Chaoxiang, do not eat that, Mei...where is Mei? Mei!"

    It was a surprisingly exhausting break from work but worth the pictures you took. The time spent with your children brought you closer, though an...incident...with Ma Li did make you question if your girl is perhaps a bit too fascinated with fire. And Bo Ni is far too timid, in your opinion, but you are confident that age and military service will iron that out to something less negative. Introspection and thought are all good things, but not acting when you should is a flaw he shouldn't get too comfortable with.

    [Ma Li gained the Character Trait: Pyromaniac! (The flames call to this one...)]
    [Bo Ni gained the Character Trait: Timid! (There is thinking, and there is hesitating. This person likes to do both in excess.)]

    {Awed Ambition: +2 to Space Actions (Electronics, Metallurgy, Education), +1 to All Automation Projects
    Automated-Communism Manifesto: +1 to all Automation Projects (Global)}

    +6 to your first Civilian Rocket Project
    +4 to your first Military Plane Factory
    +1 to all Housing Actions for the Entire 5-Year-Plan
    +1 to any Spy Action
    +6 to any Technology
    +6 to Experimental Nuclear Reactor
    +2 to Recover Your Sunken Fleet.
    +4 to any Design using Flipper Propulsion
    +10 to Designing a Submarine
    +2 to Designing a Torpedo

    Reputation - (48/100 Reputation - The nation develops, yet where lies its path?)
    People's Opinion - (94/100 Reputation - All Hail The Great Leader! The Silver Tongued Stateswright! Bringer Of Prosperity And Plenty! *Loud Cheers*)
    Chinese Opinion - (3/10 - The People's Republic remains committed to our alliance against the Imperial Dogs during these troubled times.)
    History Page - (A name, several paragraphs of your life, the steelworks incident, the Iwo Jima Crisis of 1974, and links to dissertations of the Thai-Brain Drain. Several pages and links to dissertations are dedicated to your advancement of digital technology. A dozen links and pages devoted to your influence on the Automatic Technocratic movement. Several dates of important milestones in your life, political and private. Some (horny) memes due to your big family.)

    Light Industry - Meh - (Permanent Small Improvements)
    Heavy Industry - Adequate - (Permanent Small Improvements)
    Military Industry - Good - (Permanent Small-ish Improvements)
    Agriculture - Adequate- (Static, Trending Upwards Painfully Slowly)

    [] (Optional: Write-In Commiewood Project) (No Plan)

    [] Infrastructure
    -[] Automate Factory/Facility/Project (What) (Various Reputation Gains)
    -[] Das Capital Planned City (Mega-Project) (Trigger Sub-Vote)
    -[] Build Your School-System (Mega-Project - 35/40 Actions - +5 Per Turn Automatic Progress)
    -[] Build A Monument Within The Capital
    --[] A Natural Park/Space/Building (Sub-Turns) (+/-??? Reputation/People's Opinion)
    ---[] Permaculture Gardens - Mixed-use agricultural/recreational spaces that yield both local produce for the city's population and pleasant spaces to relax and take in nature.
    --[] A Statue/Art Installation (Sub-Turns) (+/-??? Reputation/People's Opinion)
    -[] Improve Roads (Helpful)
    -[] Expand Your Public Transit Bus System (Helpful) (-4 Reputation)
    -[] Create New Housing (Helpful)
    --[] Use Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
    --[] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)
    -[] Design New Housing Concept (Design)
    --[] The Universal Building (-8 Reputation)
    -[] Improve Medical Infrastructure (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-3 Reputation)
    -[] Build New Police Stations (Helpful)
    -[] Durable Goods Libraries (-2 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
    (A good way of improving quality of life without needing to produce too many consumer goods is to implement a program where people can borrow more infrequently used goods from a central storehouse - things like vacuum cleaners, specialized cookware, hand tools, etc. The libraries can also double as social and entertainment spaces by including a television or radio, depending on the size of the library and the number of people served. These activities draw people to the library, increasing their familiarity.)
    -[] Public Radio/Televisions (-2 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
    (Add TVs/Radios to specific public venues where people can get entertained and informed in a social setting. Once again, it lets you have some access to these sorts of luxury goods without needing to make a lot of radios and TVs.)
    -[] Fluoridate the Water Supply (Helpful) (-4 People's Opinion)
    -[] (WRITE-IN)
    [] Light Industry
    -[] Cyberdize Light Industry Sector (Mega-Project - 0/5 Actions) (Secret Is Out)
    -[] Automate Factory/Facility/Project (What) (Various Reputation Gains)
    -[] Increase Electrification (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
    -[] Expand Your Train Network (Helpful)
    -[] Construct Consumer Goods Factory (What) (Helpful) (-1 Reputation)
    -[] Develop Selkie Dive Suit - A standard dive suit for civilian and military divers. (-3 Reputation) (Suspicious)
    -[] Reverse Engineer Western Durable Goods/Appliances (-4 Reputation)
    (Acquire western goods/appliances and determine their best and worst features, then create your own - free from the constraints of planned obsolescence and the profit motive and optimized for lifetime cost and performance. "Communist cooktops for communist cooks!")
    -[] Construct a food processing factory for frozen and flash-frozen foods. (Very Helpful)
    (Primarily meats and vegetables. Keep expansion in mind for either biodegradable boxes for frozen box meals that can be thrown away or nonbiodegradable boxes. You'll pay your people a tiny amount of the price to return to the factory.)
    -[] Build Vitamin Supplement Factory (Helpful) (-1 Reputation)
    [] Develop Solar Cauldron (-1 Reputation)
    -[] Develop Thermal Battery (+1 Reputation)
    -[] Water Desalination (-1 Reputation)
    -[] Oil Processing (+1 Reputation)
    -[] Food Processing (-3 Reputation)
    -[] Ammonia Production (-2 Reputation)
    -[] Mineral Processing (-1 Reputation)
    -[] Papermaking (-2 Reputation)
    -[] Electrical Generation
    [] Implement Six Sigma Methodologies (-2 Reputation)
    [] Implement Just in Time Logistics (-1 Reputation)
    [] Implement Continuous Improvement Programs (-2 People's Opinion)
    [] Develop Lights-Out Manufacturing (+2 Reputation)
    [] Generic Appliance Factory (+2 Reputation)
    [] Generic Furniture Factory (+2 Reputation)
    [] Generic Household Hardware Factory (+2 Reputation)
    [] Establish Ateliers (-5 Reputation)
    -[] Tailors & Cobblers
    -[] Woodworkers
    -[] Metalworkers
    [] Establish Rubber Plantations (-4 People's Opinion) (Harmful)
    [] Bulk Textiles Mill (-3 People's Opinion) (Harmful)
    [] Generic Bulk Clothing Factory (+1 People's Opinion) (Harmful)
    [] Establish More Publishing Houses (+2 People's Opinion)
    [] Build Breweries (+3 People's Opinion) (Harmful)
    [] Bottled Drinks Factory (+1 People's Opinion)
    [] Food Dehydration Plant (-1 Reputation)
    [] Petrochemical Plant (+3 Reputation)
    [] Pharmaceuticals Plant (+2 Reputation)
    [] Chemical Commodities Plant (+2 Reputation)
    -[] Ammonia (Fertilizer)
    [] Fine Chemicals Plant (+1 Reputation)
    -[] Agrochemicals (Pesticides)
    [] Specialty Chemicals Plant (+2 Reputation)
    [] Inorganic Chemicals Plant (+1 Reputation)
    [] Polymer Plant (+2 Reputation)
    [] Consumer Chemical Plant (-1 Reputation)
    -[] (WRITE-IN)
    [] Heavy Industry (+2/+2 to Geothermal Power (Trade/Omake))
    -[] Cyberdize Heavy Industry Sector (Mega-Project - 0/15 Actions) (+2 Reputation) (Secret Is Out)
    -[] Automate Factory/Facility/Project (What) (Various Reputation Gains)
    -[] Automate Every Factory (Mega-Project - 4/15 Actions) (-7 People's Opinion) (Genie is out of the bottle) (Extremely Harmful (Job Loss)) (+1 per Turn Automatic Progress)
    -[] Construct Housing Factory - (Design) (+1 Reputation) (Automated)
    -[] Build Structural Insulated Panel Factory Complex (-10 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
    (Steel Mill, Glass Factory, and Bamboo Mill for durable, lightweight panels that reduce the need for heating/cooling during summer and winter.)
    -[] Construct A Tractor Factory
    -[] Construct Another Steel Foundry (Harmful) (+2 Reputation)
    -[] Construct A Heavy Machinery Plant (Harmful) (+3 Reputation)
    -[] Build Rolling Stock And Rail Factory (Harmful) (+1 Reputation) (Reduced Actions For The Dragon Rail)
    -[] Construct A Power Plant (Helpful)
    -[] Construct A Geothermal Power Plant (Helpful)
    -[] Improve Your Metallurgical Institute (Harmful) (+1 Reputation)
    -[] Research The "Incidental Star Blood Development Process" (???) (Requires Improved Metallurgical Institute)
    -[] Develop Hydrothermal Carbonization (-3 Reputation)
    -[] Construct A (Iron Tiger Derived) Electronics Factory (+3 Reputation) (Harmful) (Highly Suspicious) (Steel Foundry Needed)
    -[] Crack the 800 nm Process (Mega Project - 0/4 Actions) (-3 Reputation) (Suspicious)
    -[] Expand Your Mines (Harmful)
    -[] Construct Another Harbor (Helpful)
    -[] Construct Five Merchant Marine Vessels
    -[] Design A Civilian Vehicle (Describe) (-2 Reputation)
    --[] Design Modular Skateboard Vehicle Chassis (Mega Project - 0/3 Actions) (-2 Reputation)
    --[] Industrial IT-Skeleton (+5 Reputation) (Helpful) (Exposes Secret)
    -[] Design A Civilian Ship (Describe) (-2 Reputation)
    --[] New Fishing Trawler
    -[] Design A Civilian Aircraft (Describe)
    -[] Design Cauldrons (Geothermal) (Mega Project - 0/8 Actions) (-3 Reputation)
    (Mega-industrial parks that use geothermal power for thermal processes and electricity generation. Self-sufficient in terms of power needs and capable of exporting power to the grid while providing heating to nearby greenhouses and homes.)
    -[] Rail Development Design Project (Mega-project - 0/3) (+1 Reputation) (Reduced Actions For The Dragon Rail)
    (Automated Track Laying Machinery, Electric Trains, and Streetcars will be heavily needed in your future projects of tying the people and their work closer together.)
    -[] The Dragon Rail (Mega-project - 0/64) (Harmful)
    (Lay The Dragon's Spine, The central trunk line running the island's length, the Dragon's Limbs, branching rail lines headed to major and middling cities, and the Dragon's Claws - Streetcars for the larger cities. With this, your nation will finally be able to fully utilize its breadth and width of all available industrial might!)
    -[] Construct a Cosmodrome (Mega-project - 0/21) (Harmful) (+3 Reputation) (Requires "Apply to Interkosmos")
    --[] Jointly Operated with Interkosmos (+2 Auto-Completion per Turn, -7 Actions Needed) (-2 Reputation per Turn)
    -[] (WRITE-IN)
    [] Agri-, And Aquaculture
    (1 Action Forced)
    -[] Cyberdize Agricultural Sector (Mega-Project - 0/11 Actions) (-9 Reputation) (Secret Is Out)
    -[] Automate Factory/Facility/Project (What) (Various Reputation Gains)
    -[] Farmer's Councils (-20 Reputation) (Gain Another Faction)
    (The Agricultural sector was traditionally under-represented under Wei Cai's regime. Giving them a formal voice will help build trust with the rural farmers and ease further development.)
    -[] Guangchou Gyre Deep Water Fertilization (Mega-Project - 0/9 Actions) (-8 Reputation) (Extremely Helpful)
    (The Bay of Guangchou has a nice enormous ocean gyre spun up by the Taiwan current as it passes by the mouth of the bay, keeping the water relatively contained. If you had enough power, you could sink pumps to the bottom of the bay and pump cool, nutrient-rich water to the surface, where phytoplankton could thrive and become food for larger fish. In addition, nutrient-rich water would help kelp grow in the shallows and regulate the temperature to extend its growing season.)
    -[] Construct A Fertilizer Factory (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
    -[] Build a Herbicide & Pesticide Plant (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
    -[] Increase Farming Space (Helpful) (-3 Reputation)
    -[] Increase Herd Space (Helpful) (-4 Reputation)
    -[] Assemble A Fishing Fleet
    -[] Construct A Cannery Factory
    -[] Construct A Pre-Made Food Factory (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
    -[] Expand The Sea-Forest Project (Mega-Project - 0/6 Actions) (-3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion) (Extremely Helpful)
    (A massive area for cultivating food, resources, and scientific data, mostly used to gain and harvest kelp, fish, oysters, and mother of pearl.)
    -[] Begin Marine Farming (-3 Reputation)
    (While naturally occurring kelp forests are an excellent source of food, You can also improve the yield of a kelp farm by cultivating mussels, scallops, and oysters in predator-proof containers and laying traps for shellfish along the bottom.)
    -[] Create the Guangchou Survey Corps (-5 Reputation)
    (Form a body tasked with systematically surveying and preserving Guangchou's geological and biological resources - from undiscovered veins of minerals to plants and animals that can serve a useful purpose (or can be bred to do so). (Roll 1d20 every turn, on a 20, something useful is found.))
    -[] Solar Dehydrator Plant (Experimental) (-3 Reputation)
    (Due to the low-temperature drying process, solar-powered food dehydrators are simple and cheap to construct and preserve more nutrients than canning.)
    -[] Develop And Test Novel Food Production Methods (Mega-Project - 0/12 Actions) (-3 Reputation)
    (You can create further ways to make use of your available farming space to boost production with Industrial Mycoculture, Urban Permaculture Initiatives, Forest Farming (though you'll take full credit for that since IJ stole that idea from you!), Silvopasture, and Agroforestry)
    -[] Create Insect Farms (-1 Reputation) (Helpful)
    (Cricket and Mealworm Protein Cultivation are a cheap, plentiful, and versatile way to increase protein in people's diets.)
    -[] Construct an Experimental Vertical Hydroponics Test-Building (+1 Reputation)
    -[] Pemican Production Factory (-2 Reputation) (Helpful)
    (An ancient recipe from the Americas, made of powdered meat and fat that can store for years in a sealed container. Maintaining a stockpile will be full insurance against a poor harvest.)
    -[] Seed Treatment Factory (-2 Reputation)
    (Seeds can be treated with various compounds to increase their chances of germination and their resistance to sickness.)
    [] Implement Crop Breeding Programs (+2 Reputation)
    [] Fund Agricultural Veterinary Care (-3 Reputation)
    [] Develop Fish Ranching (-1 Reputation)
    -[] (WRITE-IN)
    [] Military (+4 to Design A Native Ship)
    -[] Automate Factory/Facility/Project (What) (Various Reputation Gains)
    -[] Soldier's Councils (Triggers Sub-Vote)
    (Bring communism to the barracks! And the cockpits! And the decks!)
    -[] Create A Dedicated Coast Guard (Will massively piss off the navy until you get them some ships+equipment)
    -[] Design Two Iron Tiger Systems (Describe) (Still Secret)
    --[] The Fateful Seal IT (Iron Tiger Revolver)
    (The FS-IT is a Fateful Seal redesigned for iron tiger use, developed to use 130x800mmR shells. The FS-IT, just like the FS, uses a 6-or-7-round cylinder and can shoot HE, SAP, and AP shells.)
    -[] Design A Native Tank (Describe) (+2 Reputation)
    --[] The Credit Where It's Due (Light Scout Tank)
    (Taking inspiration from the FT-17 (shape) and T-55A (armor and suspension), the CWID is the first native LST produced in Guangchou. Weighing 28 tons, this LST is armed with a light cannon, four missiles, a coaxial machine gun, and a heavy machine gun mounted on a pintle on the turret top; it is crewed by four crew and possesses a top speed of 48km/h. Though, it is notably light on the armor for a tank.)
    -[] Design A Native Plane (Describe) (+3 Reputation)
    --[] MiS-27 (Multi-Role Jet)
    (The MiS-27 is a Multi-Role jet aircraft, its shape inspired by the MiG-21, with the J37 providing its radical delta wing configuration. Flown by one pilot and armed with 2 Modified 25mm M/71 autocannons, this Jet also sports eight modular hardpoints to add rockets, bombs, fuel tanks, and supplies as needed or wanted.)
    -[] Design A Native Vehicle (Describe) (+2 Reputation)
    --[] The Police Carrier (Light Assault APC)
    (The PC is a simple armored personnel carrier taking inspiration from the BTR-152 (appearance/shape), the BTR-60 (turret), and the M3 half-track (tracks). At 20 tons with a top speed of 75 km/h on-road and 50 km/h off-road, this vehicle can transport its four crew and six passengers where needed. With only light armor protecting its passengers, it utilizes an imported Soviet 2A28 Grom, eight missiles, and a coaxial machine gun for offensive operations.)
    --[] The BTR-71 (Light Amphibious APC)
    (The BTR-71 has the general shape and appearance of the BTR-60 but has just about nothing in common. Weighing 20 tons, this LST is armed with a light cannon, four missiles, a coaxial machine gun, and a hull machine gun. It is crewed by four crew with a place for eight additional passengers and possesses a top speed of 80 km/h on-road and 12 km/h in water.)
    -[] Design A Native Ship (Describe) (+3 Reputation)
    --[] The Gunagch (Destroyer Escort)
    (Weighing at nearly 3kt and a length of 100m, the Gunagch is propelled by two electric drives/propellers, enabling a maximum speed/range of 25knots/20.000km (at 12knots). Armed with four 100m BS-4 guns in 2 twin turrets, eight modified 25mm M/71 autocannons in 4 twin mounts, sixteen 15x115mmR KPVT heavy machine guns in 4 quad mounts, and 80 depth charges.)
    --[] Coast Guard Cutter
    --[] Develop a Submarine (+3 Reputation)
    ---[] Tigerfish
    ---[] Tigerstripe
    ---[] Tigerstripefish
    ---[] (Write-In)
    -[] Design A Native Artillery/AA/AT Piece (Describe) (+1 Reputation)
    --[] The BS-4 (Crewed Anti-Tank)
    (The BS-4 is a field and anti-tank gun, taking inspiration from the BS-3. Its primary use is for coastal defense forces with a six-meter barrel and 11-meter length overall.)
    --[] The Police Carrier Anti-Tank (Self-Propelled AT)
    (The PC is a simple armored personnel carrier taking inspiration from the BTR-152 (appearance/shape), the BTR-60 (turret), and the M3 half-track (tracks). At 20 tons with a top speed of 75 km/h on-road and 50 km/h off-road, this vehicle can transport its five crew where needed. With only light armor protecting its passengers, it utilizes an imported Soviet KPVT HMG, a rocket-deliver platform, and a coaxial machine gun for offensive operations. Additionally, the passenger compartment of the PC has been removed in favor of an AT Cannon with a gun shield.)
    -[] Design A Native Sidearm (Describe) (Choose Any/All)
    --[] Fateful Seal (Revolver)
    (The Fateful Seal is designed as a top-break gas-seal revolver, using the Webley and the Nagant M1895 for inspiration. Research shows that as much as 26% of propellant gas escapes through the barrel and cylinder gap. Like more or less all gas-seal revolvers, the FS uses the cartridge case to seal the gap between the cylinder and the barrel. It uses a 13.2x55mmSR cartridge; the flat nose boattail bullet is 13.2 millimeters wide and 15 millimeters tall. It has a level on the right side, like the Webley revolver, and is used for the same purpose. Additionally, with the proposed 4.7-inch to 12-inch long barrels, the FS uses a combination detachable shoulder stock and holster and a 6-or-7-round cylinder.)
    --[] Conscript's Friend (Cheap Pistol)
    (The CF is a dead-simple integral box magazine pistol taking inspiration from the Steyr Hahn, the FN 1903, the Browning Hi-Power, and the TT-33. The FN 1903 provided the CF with its general shape and appearance, the Steyr Hahn, its integral magazine and stripper clip guide, the Browning Hi-Power knowledge on double-stack magazines, and some more modern safety features, and last but not least, the TT-33 gave the CF knowledge on simplicity. Cambered in an 8x40mmSR cartridge, the CF is designed to be as simple as possible while safely chambering its integral 10-round box fed with stripper clips. The handgun is supposed to be so simple that anyone who can rifle the barrel should be able to make the rest of the pistol with hand tools.)
    --[] Spook's Squeak (Agent Pistol)
    (The SQ is more or less a full copy of the Welrod except for its size and particular cartridge. With a total of 203mm in length, the SQ is chambered in the particular 6.5x30mmSR cartridge using a removable 8-shot magazine.)
    --[] The Soldiers Pistol (Army Pistol)
    The SP is essentially a Browning Hi-Power chambered in 10x37mmSR and fed from a 10 to 20-round detachable double-stack magazine with a barrel length of 12 cm and an overall length of 20 cm, not counting the detachable combination shoulder stock and holster.
    --[] Name Pending (Flaregun)
    (The NP is a small, light single-shot break-action flare gun taking inspiration from the Sturmpistole.)
    -[] Design A Native Service Weapon (Rifle, SMG, Heavy Machine Gun, Rocket launcher, Etc.) (Describe) (Choose Any/All) (+1 Reputation)
    --[] The Police's Friend (Bolt-Action Rifle with shotgun+grenade capabilities)
    (The PF, just like FS, is meant to be used by police and rear line units and is a bolt-action rifle design taking inspiration from the Lee-Enfield, the Swedish Mauser, and the Fateful Seal. The Swedish Mauser provided the PF with its general shape, appearance, and stripper clip guide, the Lee-Enfield it's magazine and sling mounts, and the Fateful Seal gave the PF the base for its unique 12 g under-barrel revolver shotgun. The PF is meant to be able to use 40mm rifle grenades such as HEAT, HE, and Smoke, with the under-barrel shotgun supposed to be primarily used for riot control in police use and rear line units. Chambered in the same 13.2x55mmSR cartridge as the Fateful Seal, the PF is fed from a 10-round detachable magazine with a 25-inch barrel length and a 40-inch overall length.)
    --[] The Militia's Friend (Cheap SMG)
    (The MF is a crude SMG taking inspiration from the Sten, PPS, Swedish m/45 SMG, MP 40, and MP 3008. The MF, just like the CF, is meant to be used not by the military but by the militia forces of Guangchou. The Swedish m/45 gave the MF its general shape and appearance; the MP 3008 gave the shoulder stock; the PPS, its knowledge of curved magazines; the MP 40, the safety features and sling mounts; and the Sten, its simplicity. With a fire rate of 570 rounds per minute, it is chambering the 8x40mmSR cartridge from a 20 to 30-round detachable box magazine or a 50-round drum with a 20-inch barrel and a 28-inch overall length. The MF is designed to be as simple as possible while still safely chambering its cartridge, and it's supposed to be so simple that anyone who can rifle the barrel should be able to make the rest of the "submachine" gun; using hand tools.)
    --[] The Soldiers Friend (Mainstay Select-Fire Rifle)
    (The SF is a relatively simple select-fire rifle taking inspiration from the AVS-36, the Fedorov Avtomat, the BAR, and the FG 42. It is meant to be used by professional forces, not police or militia. The BAR provided the SF with its general shape and appearance, the FG 42, the operational and gas system, the Fedorov Avtomat, the magazine, the dust cover, the AVS-36, and the muzzle brake and sling mounts. The SF has a fire rate of 406 to 610 rounds per minute, chambering the 6.5x57mmSR cartridge fed from a 20 or 25-round detachable box magazine while possessing a 28-inch barrel and a 40-inch overall length. The SF is designed to be a reasonably uncomplicated weapon yet modern and meant to be the main arm of the military while still being cheap to produce.)
    --[] The Guard's Arm (Costly High-Magazine SMG)
    (The GA is a costly high-quality submachine gun taking inspiration from the Browning Hi-Power, the MP 40, MP 5, and the Conscripts Friend and is meant to be used by the secret service and the guards of various military-industrial and laboratory installations. The conscripts friend gave the GA its general shape and appearance, the MP 5 its action, the MP 40 gave the detachable muzzle ring, and the Browning Hi-Power gave it the detachable double-stack magazine alongside modern safety features. The weapon possesses a fire rate of 457 to 800 rounds per minute chambered in a 6.5x30mmSR cartridge feeding from a 10 to 30-round detachable double-stack magazine or 48-round detachable double-stack drum. The GA is 457mm in length, not counting the detachable shoulder stock, and has a detachable muzzle ring that can be unscrewed to attach a suppressor.)
    --[] The Workers Might (Crewed Anti-Tank System)
    The WM is a recoilless rifle design inspired by the Carl Gustaf 8.4 cm recoilless rifle and the german 10.5 cm Leichtgeschütz 40. It is an anti-tank weapon meant for service with professional forces. The LG 40 gave the WM its general shape and appearance; the Carl Gustaf gave it its hinged breech. The WM uses unique 152x305mmR shells capable of firing HE and HEAT ammunition.
    --[] The Soldiers Arm (Mainstay SMG)
    The SA is a simple submachine gun taking inspiration from the United Defense M42 and the M50 Reising, meant to be used by professional forces. The UD M42 provided the SA its general shape, appearance, and wooden foregrip, and the M50 Reising gave the sights and sling mounts. The SA has a rate of fire of 570 to 800 rounds per minute, chambering the 10x37mmSR cartridge from a 20 to 30-round detachable double-stack box magazine or a 50-round detachable double-stack drum with a 35.6 cm long barrel and an overall length of 61 cm.
    -[] Design Native Equipment (Describe)
    --[] Develop Native Aircraft Engine
    --[] Develop Native Torpedo
    --[] Develop a Rocket Engine (+1 Reputation)
    --[] Develop a Rocket (+2 Reputation)
    --[] Develop an Orbital Satellite (Mega-Project - 0/3 Actions) (+2 Reputation)
    -[] Design Infantry IT-Alloy Bodyarmor (+3 Reputation)
    -[] Design Police IT-Alloy Bodyarmor And Shields (+1 Reputation) (-2 People's Opinion)
    -[] Import (What) (-1 Reputation)
    -[] Construct A Submarine Yard (Submarine) (+1 Reputation)
    -[] Construct A Torpedo Factory
    -[] Construct A Dedicated Naval Slipway (Ship)
    -[] Construct Coastal Defences (+2 Reputation)
    -[] Construct Interior Defences (+1 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
    -[] Construct An Airfield
    -[] Construct Military Building/Factory (What) (Harmful) (-2 People's Opinion)
    --[] Construct IT Electronics Factory (Harmful) (-4 Reputation)
    -[] Mingxiang Aeronautical Expansion (+2 Reputation)
    -[] Airy Might (Mega-project - 0/6) (+1 Reputation) (Harmful) (Requires Airy Modernization)
    (Build a (Fighter) Factory Complex, which will get us a force of 300 planes in 5 years. That should be enough for immediate deterrence. By also building a (Transport) and (Missile) Factory, we will ensure that we can incorporate the new designs fully without any missing equipment.)
    [] Navy Modernization (Mega-project) (0/8)
    -[] Expand The Military Academy (+2 Reputation) (-3 People's Opinion)
    -[] Raise A New Military Formation (What) (Harmful) (+1 Reputation) (-3 People's Opinion)
    --[] Raise a (Mechanized Combat Engineer) Formation
    -[] Raise A Iron Tiger Formation (Organization/Loadout) (Secret) (Suspicious)
    --[] WRITE IN CHOSEN LOADOUTS
    -[] Recover Your Sunken Fleet (Harmful) (+2 Reputation) (+2 People's Opinion) (+4 to any Naval Action)
    -[] Intimidate Taiwan (+5 Reputation)
    -[] Commit Exercises (+3 Reputation)
    -[] Secure Trade Routes
    -[] Raid International Shipping (What Goods) (Helpful/Harmful) (Roll above five, and you won't be caught.)
    -[] (WRITE-IN)
    [] Social
    -[] Expand Your Television Station (New Channel Name And/Or Focus)
    --[] The Social Revolution TV Channel (-1 Chinese Opinion)
    (Focuses on the social aspects of communism, why they're important, and how they tie into the broader communist project. It covers things like gender equality, the importance of contraception, why you shouldn't discriminate against queer people, readings and debates about Marx's later works where he refutes many of his earlier theories about stages, etc. (Head to Head is a popular segment where they bring the PRC and USSR ambassadors on the show to have them debate over their differing orthodoxies - people have started betting on which one will 'win.'))
    -[] Arrest Dissidents (Harmful) (-5 People's Opinion)
    -[] Purge Undesirable Citizens (Who) (Harmful) (+1 Reputation) (-5 People's Opinion)
    -[] Search And Destroy Rebels (Harmful) (-5 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)
    -[] Increase Surveillance (Harmful) (-5 People's Opinion)
    -[] Reduce Surveillance (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-3 Reputation)
    -[] Increase Social Control (How) (Helpful) (Harmful) (-3 People's Opinion) (+5 Reputation)
    -[] Propagandize An Achievement (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion)
    -[] Praise Workers From (Industry) (Helpful/Harmful) (+2 People's Opinion)
    -[] Boost (Social Statistic, example: Birthrates) (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion)
    -[] Propagandize Workers Conditions (Helpful)
    -[] Implement A Social Policy (Write-In) (Helpful/Harmful) (+3 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
    --[] Labour Reforms (Triggers Sub-Turns) (Helpful/Harmful) (+/-? People's Opinion) (+/-? Reputation)
    --[] Industrial Health & Safety Policy (Triggers Sub-Turns) (Helpful/Harmful) (+/-? People's Opinion) (+/-? Reputation)
    -[] Reduce Social Control (How) (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (-7 Reputation)
    -[] Vaccination Campaign (Disease) (Extremely Helpful)
    --[] Native Production And Doctors (-4 Reputation)
    --[] International Production And Doctors (Helpful) (-7 Reputation) (+2 People's Opinion)
    -[] Begin Public Sanitation Programs (Helpful)
    -[] Improve Foreign Intelligence Service
    --[] Industrial Espionage in Japan (-7 Reputation) (Suspicious)
    (Right now, there's a wide variance in the effectiveness of your foreign intelligence agents, which suggests a lack of effective mentorship and information transfer from the more successful ones to the less successful ones. Formalizing a training program means institutionalizing the knowledge of your best agents (with a focus on industrial espionage in Japan) should go a long way toward delivering more reliable results. Of course, industrial espionage may not be as glamorous as the political and military games the CIA and KGB played. Still, it's easier and has a better long-term payoff for the nation. Furthermore, narrowing the focus to Japan due to proximity, an abundance of high-tech industry, and ease of letting your agents blend into the population allows us to get the most optimal results for the effort invested.)
    --[] Western Heavy Machinery For Reverse Engineering
    --[] (Write-In Target/Activity)
    -[] Rationalize the Language (Mega-Project - 0/5 Actions) (+2 Chinese Opinion) (-5 People's Opinion)
    (Gunagchow is an unholy combination of Chinese and Japanese, with enough loan words from Korean and Malay to make up a non-trivial portion of the overall syntax and more exceptions than English. And it's written with Hanzi characters that often don't match their Mandarin counterparts, and never mind that the grammar and word construction don't always line up. Even before the systematic destruction of the island's infrastructure by the IJN air raids, literacy in Guangchou was among the lowest in the Asia-Pacific - mainly because the language was simply a massive headache to learn. Before establishing a robust schooling system, we have a golden opportunity to correct this and grant the nation a competitive advantage in international relations in the future. Guangchou will be rationalized and streamlined to make it easy to understand, pronounce, write, and read.)
    -[] (WRITE-IN)
    [] Political
    -[] Leader Pushed Developments
    --[] Reform Government Structure (Mega-Project - 0/10 Actions) (Triggers Sub-Vote) (-50 Reputation)
    -[] Found Department of Public Health (-4 Reputation)
    -[] Found Nutritional & Pharmaceutical Standards Agency (-2 Reputation)
    -[] Healthcare Reform (Sub-Vote) (-7 Reputation)
    -[] Apply to Interkosmos (-3 Chinese Opinion)
    -[] Food for Tractors (+3 Reputation) (-5 People's Opinion) (+1 Chinese Opinion)
    (Trade Omni-Tractors for Chinese food, taking advantage of Guangchou's expertise with manufacturing to produce lots of them at competitive prices. Hua Guofeng gets a nice bribe to help quell rural unrest; we get food, win-win. Also, appeal to the CCP on ideological grounds by including a rider that part of the cost of the tractors must be paid for directly in food from the farms it's used on, going straight to the workers of the Omni-Tractor factories. This is a symbolic gesture against the alienation of the industrial mode of production and hopefully opens up a dialogue between the end users and the people making the tractors, improving international solidarity and giving the manufacturers valuable feedback.)
    -[] Populists & Internationalists
    --[] Mend The Relationship With Pol Pot (+/-1d4-2 Reputation)
    --[] Have our glorified paparazzi help the Nationalists by seeing the value of ad campaigning abroad to increase the desire of our trade goods to increase their market value. (-3 Reputation)
    --[] Medical Student Exchange with Cuba (Helpful) (-4 Reputation)
    --[] Bother the Cubans for their "Home Self-Reliance And Repair Manual" (-3 Reputation)
    --[] (Gay) Immigration Propaganda (-3 Reputation) (-1 Chinese Opinion)
    ("In Guangchou, you will be free to be and love as your truest self, free from bigotry and oppression based on gender, sexual orientation, or race. If you want to help build a better world, come to Guangchou." The Internationalists will spread the word through their contacts abroad that Guangchou LACKS engineers and scientists, accountants, doctors, and other highly educated workers needed to fulfill the Great Leader's ambitious plans and that Guangchou ALSO has more Gay Liberation than you can shake a stick at. We may be able to attract quite a few learned professionals fleeing persecution in their home countries.)
    --[] Send Enbies To Establish A Formal Relationship
    ---[] The Somalia Democratic Republic
    ---[] New Zealand
    ---[] Indonesia
    ---[] India
    ---[] The Philippines
    ---[] Sri Lanka
    ---[] Myanmar
    ---[] Laos
    ---[] Cambodia
    ---[] (Write-In)
    --[] Brain Drain Time! (+4 Reputation)
    (A lot of nations are currently facing unrest or ethnic cleansing. We could take advantage of the fleeing populations and persecuted intellectuals to boost our native capabilities. Oh, and help the refugees too.
    ---[] Thailand (Easy - +5 Reputation if successful)
    ---[] (Write-In)
    --[] Southeast Asian Communist Kinship Programm (+3 Reputation)
    --[] CASEAN Outreach (+1 Reputation) (-1 Chinese Opinion)
    (Establish diplomatic relations with ideologically compatible nations in your sphere of influence. (Cambodia, Vietnam, North Korea, etc.))
    -[] National Consulting Services (+2 Reputation) (-1 Chinese Opinion)
    -[] Progressives
    --[] Have their experts focus on the economic issues and suggest how to increase food supply and ideas for a healthier economy. (-5 Reputation)
    -[] International
    --[] BEHOLD! My American Ship-
    ---[] Russian Ambassador (-1 Chinese Opinion) (???)
    ---[] Chinese Ambassador (+1 Chinese Opinion) (???)
    -[] Technologists
    --[] Form a Statistics Bureau (Focus) (-2 Reputation) (Political Consequences For Their Findings)
    -[] Militarists
    --[] Create a dedicated branch of Military Engineers (+Allies)
    --[] Buy Russian Trucks for native logistics and the military (-1 Chinese Opinion) (-5 Reputation) (Knock-On Effects)
    --[] Bugger the Russians for their Rockery in exchange for our knowledge in electronics (EXTREMELY SUSPICIOUS) (SECRET) (-3 Chinese Opinion) (Knock-On Effects)
    --[] Armed Solidarity (+7 Reputation) (+5 People's Opinion) (International (Read: West) Anger) (Repeatable)
    (A bloody massacre happened in Thailand, radically altering the country's political landscape and bringing forth every manner of vermin and revolutionary ally. Using sympathetic and allied forces, we could smuggle arms, trainers, equipment, and supplies to identify and contact groups to bolster their strength and capabilities. Even if we fail to ensure a complete revolution, a coup ending with sympathetic forces leading the nation will benefit us in the denial of yet another region to exploit the West's lust for money.)
    -[] (WRITE-IN)
    [] Secret Projects
    -[] Investigate Applications For WEISOFT Again
    -[] Mingxiang CyberSyn System 1.1.0 (Mega-Project - 0/18 Actions) (-9 Reputation)
    -[] Develop Native Supercomputer (Mega-Project - 0/4 Actions) (-8 Reputation)
    -[] Experimental Nuclear Reactor (Mega-Project - 0/10 Actions) (+3 Reputation per Turn/25 Reputation for 8 Actions spent in one turn)
    [] Wei Jungming - (RP)
    -[] Personal Action (Write-In two things he does within the next six months.)
    -[] Lover Action (Write-In one thing Wei Jungmin and Wei Mai do together in the next six months.)

    AN: I ran out of steam during the last bit, but what can you do? Anyways, off to sleep!
     
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    [X] [COMMIEWOOD] CommiePop
    (In a departure from the visual medium, Commiewood focuses on releasing several music albums featuring their take on western pop music. The (cheekily) so-called CommiePop genre borrows the repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length, basic format, and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to that Pop is known for but engages heavily with political and social themes instead of eschewing them.)

    [X] [PLAN] Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy
    -[X] Infrastructure
    --[X] Build Your School-System (Mega-Project - 25/40 Actions - +5 Per Turn Automatic Progress) (2 Actions, LOCKED)
    --[X] Create New Housing (Helpful)
    ---[X] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation) (3 Actions) (Bonus: +1 Popular Demand)
    -[X] Agri-, And Aquaculture
    --[X] Create Insect Farms (-1 Reputation) (Helpful)
    -[X] Military
    --[X] Design A Native (Fighter) Plane (+3 Reputation) (Sub-vote) (Bonus: +2 omake)
    --[X] Design A Native (Transport) Plane (+3 Reputation) (Sub-vote) (Bonus: +2 omake)
    -[X] Social
    --[X] Improve Foreign Intelligence Service
    ---[X] Industrial Espionage in the West (-1 Reputation) (Suspicious) (Bonus: +1 Any Spy Action)
    -[X] Political
    --[X] Deepen The Special Relationship: USSR (-2 CO)
    --[X] Populists & Internationalists
    ---[X] Send Enbies To Establish A Formal Relationship
    ----[X] Afghanistan
    -----[X] Gifts From the East
    -[X] Secret Projects
    --[X] Experimental Nuclear Reactor (Mega-Project - 1/10 Actions) (+3 Reputation) (Bonus: +5 China Aid)
    -[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
    --[X] Personal Action: Wei is making you attend some seminars at Mingxiang after getting fed up with your lack of engineering sense.
    --[X] Personal Action: Go out among the refugees incognito and see if there are any issues you should be aware of that aren't filtered up through official channels.
    --[X] Lover Action: Beach episode with the family. You kids are old enough now to enjoy themselves, and you and Mai would undoubtedly appreciate the break.

    [X] [Fighter Plane] Air Defense Fighter Type 3
    [X] [Transport Plane] General Transport Aircraft Type 1
    [X] [Fighter Plane] Air Defense Fighter Type 3
    "When you go up in this plane, and you've got the stick in one hand and the throttle in the other, the wind beneath your wings, you lose yourself. You don't have to look down at dials and gauges; you don't have to fight the controls. The line between woman and machine blurs, and you feel like you have become one. No self. Anattā."
    -    Irina Popova (1979)



    "The Anatta displays the distinctive gray radar absorbent paint associated with stealth aircraft. Please note the lighter-colored edge treatments applied to gaps to absorb incoming radar waves before they can scatter off the sharp breaks in the aircraft skin. Above, we see the distinctive red and black tail fins of its airshow livery."
    -Airplane Enthusiast Weekly #299

    Name: Air Defense Fighter Type 3
    Nickname: "Anata" (NATO reporting name "Fairy")
    Type: Light Fighter
    Branch(es): Airy
    Intended Role: Multirole/Air Superiority Fighter
    Notable Quirks:
    • Almost Stealth
    • Great Situational Awareness
    • Cheap to Build and Operate
    • Slow Supercruise
    • Sluggish At Low Speed
    • No Gun*
    • Room to Grow
    • Joy to Fly
    • Initially derived from the MiG-23 airframe, the Anatta's fuselage was rapidly redesigned towards the end of its development cycle to take advantage of the aerodynamic breakthroughs in vortex lift developed for the MiG-29 (its aerodynamics being identical across both domestic and export variants, and thus not subject to restrictions when it came to tech sharing).
    • This left it with the body of a MiG-29, but the radar and engine derived from the MiG-23.
    • An eclectic blend of eastern and western military aviation doctrines: on the one hand, you have an emphasis on energy theory and stealth that's very far removed from the Soviet focus on performance and maneuverability. On the other hand, while the USAF learned that it couldn't rely on missiles on Vietnam, Guangchou only saw a promising technology going through its teething problems and adopted the Soviet roketnaset concept for the air-superiority role.
    • The Anatta also incorporates partial stealth. With Guangchou's supercomputers being used for economic planning, the opportunity cost of monopolizing them for geometrical stealth optimization was too high, and a relatively simplified geometrical stealth program would have resulted in unacceptable aerodynamic performance for a fighter. As such, the Anatta development team went for the low-hanging fruits of the RCS reduction tree.
    • The first and most important design change was to obscure the engine fan and compressor from direct observation from the front. This was done by redesigning the intake into a split-s lined with several centimeters of RAM on the interior. This would attenuate incoming radar waves and absorb ones reflected from the engine fan. The intakes were also changed from a rectangular cross-section to a parallelogram to eliminate corner reflections.
    • The second major part of reducing radar cross section comes from the RAM mentioned above. This takes the form of a paint made of tiny iron balls coated with an electrical insulator embedded inside a polymer substrate. Several different balls are used and painted in layers to present incoming radar waves with a material of increasing density with depth. An automated robotic painting rig was designed to reduce cost and downtime in applying the paint to the aircraft in the field.
    • An indium-tin-oxide layer over sensor windows and the pilot canopy prevents radar waves from getting into the plane and bouncing around like a corner reflector.
    • Fun Fact: Because the US tested their planes in the middle of the desert, they missed the fact that the F-22 stealth paint was sensitive to moisture, leading to the plane's reputation as a hangar queen. Guess what issue an island nation caught early?
    • The third major part of RCS reduction was primitive geometric stealth, which was done more based on gut feelings and rules of thumb than any quantitative analysis to save time and resources. For instance, the V-tail shrouds the exhaust and reduces RADAR reflections from the sides compared to a vertical rudder, large unitary skin panels reduce the number of edges that have to be stealthed, and fixed ramp intakes mean there's less variable geometry to bounce a radar reflection from, skin roughness is minimized in general for the same reason, etc.
    • Taken all together, these measures do about 80% of the work of RCS reduction for only about 20% of the effort compared to the F-22. However, detection range scales with the fourth power of RCS, so these measures only give a 20-30% reduction in detection range compared to a design that does 100% of the work, like the F-22.
    • For its time, the Anatta is actually very good, though the built-in RCS reduction and enlarged radar compared to its MiG-23 and 29 parents mean that it can usually get off the first missile launch, and the glass cockpit and bubble canopy give the pilots much better situational awareness than the MiG-23 if they do get into a dogfight. This is especially true if two Anattas operate in a hunter-killer mode where a plane in the rear will illuminate the target while one in front closes in using only passive radar.
    • The plane's electro-hydrostatic actuators are much simpler to maintain than the traditional hydraulic system and lighter to boot. When combined with the maintenance light 'Faster' engine, it means the plane has the lowest ratio of flight/maintenance hours out of any combat aircraft at the time, making it very cheap to operate.
    • The airfare is primarily made of aluminum alloy isogrids to keep costs low - the extra machining cost being absorbed by the CNC mills available to Guangchou.
    • A dedicated avionics bay houses a central computer based on the Tigerlink terminal developed for the Iron Tiger. This computer is responsible for managing the aircraft's relaxed stability and engine, as well as ECM and ECCM.
    • The more powerful engine combined with the drag reduction incidental to stealth shaping also allows the aircraft to maintain a very modest supercruise of Mach 1.1, allowing it to spend longer at supersonic speed compared to purely afterburner-based propulsion. However, the plane's overall top speed with an afterburner has been reduced from Mach 2.35 at altitude to Mach 1.9 as a result of eliminating the variable geometry elements of the ramp intakes - a change necessary to meet RCS reduction targets and reduce the overall cost of the aircraft, but which does degrade the performance a bit.
    • The plane also gives up some low speed and high AOE maneuvering capability compared to its parent and other fighters under development by our Soviet Allies. Its maneuvering characteristics stress energy maintenance more than the maneuverability emphasized by the USSR. This tradeoff was made to accommodate RCS reduction features and reduce cost and complexity.
    • The engine nozzle is lined with ceramic tiles to reduce heat transfer to the airframe and thus reduce infrared signature and hide as much of the con-div nozzle as possible from RADAR.
    • Immediately behind the cockpit are a combined takeoff intake and air brake. A bi-directional hinge allows the panel to hinge around its rear side when taking off to provide extra lift while allowing the ventral air intakes to be blocked off to prevent debris injection during rough field STOL takeoffs. During landing, the same panel will hinge around the front side simultaneously, pivoting the all-moving v-tails perpendicular to the air stream to serve as air brakes after touchdown.
    • The side-mounted internal weapons bays can mount six missiles - typically four MRAAMs and two SRAAMs, each mounted on an independent trapeze launcher meant to eject the missile and close the bay quickly to reduce the window when the plane is vulnerable to radar scattering off of the interior of the weapon bay.
    • The aircraft is designed to receive numerous upgrades over its lifetime, and an effort has been made to make subsystems as modular as practical. For instance, the internal bays have room to fit more missiles if a double rack is developed, and the hexagonal cupolas mounted above and below the nose stand ready to receive an IRST system in future variants.

    [X] [Transport Plane] General Transport Aircraft Type 1

    (Boeing Truss Braced Wing concept. Just imagine a radome on top of it, and you've basically arrived at what the Tao looks like.)

    Name: General Transport Aircraft Type 1
    Nickname: "Tao" (NATO reporting name "Madam"/"Carol")
    Type: Transport Aircraft
    Branch(es): Airy
    Intended Role: AWACS / Air Freight
    Notable Quirks:
    • Surprisingly normal looking.
    • A standard tube and wing-fuselage with a t-tail empennage.
    • T-Tail is used to get the elevators into the clean air above the prop wash of the engines. This has the happy side effect of also making it easier to load and unload cargo.
    • Elevators are all moving - this lets them be smaller and thus reduces drag and allows them to generate lift while cruising instead of being a source of induced drag like a typically fixed elevator.
    • The wing was inspired by the Hurel-Dubois HD.31 and the Short Skyvan and emphasized endurance at the expense of speed. A long and slender high aspect ratio truss braced wing generates minimal drag but reduces max cruising speed to Mach 0.7 (compared to most other large gets flying at Mach 0.8). The truss is shaped like an airfoil, and the plane derives a non-trivial amount of lift due to that. Their most dramatic feature is the integrated wing-folding actuator, which allows the aircraft to fit inside existing hangars and airfields.
    • The engines use the Faster common engine core, but the propeller blades are where the bulk of R&D for this project went:
    • Rather than creating a gearbox to allow a turbofan's fan to spin slower than its turbine (and thus grow larger and more efficient without tearing itself apart from centrifugal loading), or reducing the aircraft's cruising speed further to Mach 0.5 and using a turboprop, Mingxian's aeronautics council has chased the siren screech of the propfan.
    • Using titanium alloys and their superior computer-aided design systems, they worked backward from the deformed in-motion shape of the transonic propeller. They calculated what the at-rest propfan blades would look like for manufacturing.
    • The twin counter-rotating propfans are much louder than an equivalent turboprop or turbofan, and the aircraft was laid out to keep the crew towards the front and rear. The center, where the engine's sound hits the hull almost perpendicularly, is given over to an airborne supercomputer for the AWACS system. This is combined with issuing the crew radio-enabled noise reduction earmuffs to allow noise levels to be brought down to comfortable levels for long-term operation.
    • Because the engines are mounted relatively high up, and the intakes are far from the ground, they can land from unprepared runways - a crucial part of Guangchou air defense doctrine - and a desirable feature for air freight operators that opens up some unconventional opportunities.
    • Thanks to the advanced electronics available, the Tao can fit an AWACS system into a smaller aircraft than the American E-3 Sentry or the Soviet Beriev A-50 currently under development. This reduces the development and manufacturing costs by going to a medium-haul sized airframe.
    • Unlike the Soviet AWACS of the time, Guangchou opted for a fixed radome with a moving antenna, electing to further streamline the radome into a lifting body to offset its drag.
    • Uses electro-hydrostatic actuators to reduce weight and maintenance, a fly-by-wire system, a glass cockpit to reduce pilot informational load, and IT-derived alloys for strategic reinforcement of its airframe. It creates a robust aircraft that can function despite significant damage or neglect.
    • With the relatively slow speed and low drag wing, the lift-positive empennage, and the incredibly efficient propfans, you have an AWACS that can stay in the air for 12 hours at a time and needs minimal maintenance between flights.
    • If the propfans' noise issue can be resolved, it has the potential to be an excellent passenger jet that can fly everything from medium to long-haul routes. And with further research into transonic truss-braced wings, the top speed may rise to Mach 0.8, bringing it to parity with turbofan-powered jets.
    • With a few upgrades, this plane could be the 737-killer that would give us a dominating position over the passenger and air freight markets.

    [X] [COMMIEWOOD] CommiePop
    (In a departure from the visual medium, Commiewood focuses on releasing several music albums featuring their take on western pop music. The (cheekily) so-called CommiePop genre borrows the repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length, basic format, and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to that Pop is known for but engages heavily with political and social themes instead of eschewing them.)
    Though somewhat a break from their focus on the visual mediums, the music produced by several authorized bands has slowly, and with growing steam, brought change into the musical scene of Guangchou. The borrowed format from the West was converted for the animation of an episode for a fantasy show for its intro. After catching the attention of several staff members, it was pitched for approval in a mass-media campaign. Since then, the songs produced have gained a growing audience and following, from primarily the youth, though several older people have grown to enjoy them. In a bizarre (for those from the West) turn, the oldest generation has a primarily positive outlook upon the new music, seeing the political messages inherent in them as a fun way to teach the "youngin's" what they fought for and what task they will have to pick up in the coming years.

    -[X] Infrastructure
    --[X] Create New Housing (Helpful)
    ---[X] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation) (3 Actions) (Bonus: +1 Popular Demand)
    (10 + 1 = 11 - Boosted, 1 + 1 = 2 - Sub-Optimal, 9 + 1 = 10 - Boosted)
    It seemed like the whole nation was undergoing construction, large towers and housing blocks springing up everywhere, dozens of buildings finishing each week while three dozen more were started. A massive nationwide campaign to improve the standard of living for all, successfully shifting populations from decrepit or failing housing from even before the first world war into modern buildings with flowing water, electricity, and conveniences available to even the newest arriving refugee. Tens of thousands had already been incorporated into the teams working in shifts around the day to construct the buildings, with thousands more set to bolster the effort as city after city is slowly transformed from the haphazard mess brought by the devastation of the second world war, and into ordered grids and planned layouts designed by committees and intellectuals who had studied city after city around the globe to future-proof the effort and reduce any problems to come with incorporating new infrastructures like trains, busses, trams, airports, and more.

    -[X] Agri-, And Aquaculture
    --[X] Create Insect Farms (-1 Reputation) (Helpful)
    (12 - Boosted)
    A visit to the newly created insect farms made to bolster the population's protein intake proved to be as enlightening as fascinating. However, you, personally, could have done without a cricket trying to escape its fate by jumping into your face. The clip is currently being discussed by your PR people if they are fit for distribution as a humanizing aspect. Well, you had been calm throughout that moment, but you would lie if you didn't feel vindication when you imagined that you ate said cricket while testing various foods made from the farmed crickets. But you would be lying if you didn't say that you thought the bread made from cricket wheat would taste as good as it did. The products are set to be distributed as part of the guaranteed meals next week, with each person having an increase of around 120 calories to look forward to.

    -[X] Social
    --[X] Improve Foreign Intelligence Service
    ---[X] Industrial Espionage in the West (-1 Reputation) (Suspicious) (Bonus: +1 Any Spy Action)
    (10 + 1 = 11 - Boosted)
    "Hey, Sam," Jonathan called from the cubicle to my left, looking over the short wall separating us with a conspirational tone and shifty eyes, eager to spread gossip he had likely just heard. "Have you noticed yet? People are saying that there is a commie-spy in the company!"

    "No!" I gasped, carefully continuing to memorize the technical aspects of the hydraulic press we were currently making. "Do you have any idea who it could be?" I asked, faking interest as I knew full well that the false leads I had set up would take care of any investigation.

    "Don't say I told you, but..." he spoke, glancing around in the busy office. "They say Janice is being suspected of being one of them," he added, whispering the last part."

    "By God!" Sergei, from a cubicle over, replied, shaking his head. That we infiltrated the same company as the KGB on accident still boggled my mind, but at the very least, the following binges on booze and food with their team had been fun. "I've always known there was something wrong with that woman! Have you heard about-"

    -[X] Political
    --[X] Deepen The Special Relationship: USSR (-2 CO)
    (9 - Optimal)
    "Something's Fucky." - Stansfield Turner, Director of the CIA (1978)

    "It sure is!" - Yuri Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (1978)

    "Oh, chicken noodle soup! My favorite!" - Zhu Chao, Elected Representative of the Collective Representative Union for Internal Security to guard the Revolution (1978)

    --[X] Populists & Internationalists
    ---[X] Send Enbies To Establish A Formal Relationship
    ----[X] Afghanistan
    -----[X] Gifts From the East
    (6 - Optimal)
    Allamah Hazim el-Mahdi stood within the Mosque where he had once grown up with a small smile as his hand trailed over the wall where he had, oh so long ago, spent hours upon hours standing in penance after acting up during schooling. This whole place brought peace and solace to his weary body and soul in a way that rest simply could not, especially as people began to murmur, as unrest grew, and talks with his fellows stagnated or grew in places he could have never foreseen. But, then, a short cough brought him out of his brief indulgence in the past, his eyes sharpening upon the group of men currently standing within these sacred halls.

    "We accept," he spoke, a slight glance at the opened crates of guns and pictures promising material assistance to the people stashed in the corner betraying the purpose of the meeting to those who'd like to have it never happen in the first place at all.

    -[X] Secret Projects
    --[X] Experimental Nuclear Reactor (Mega-Project - 1/10 Actions) (+3 Reputation) (Bonus: +5 China Aid)
    (2 + 5 = 7 - Optimal)
    "The ink is dry, the agreement sold, and both sides are moving personnel to the agreed site. Now, we only need to start construction and start up the thing to catapult us into a new age." - Journal entry of a nuclear engineer.

    -[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
    --[X] Personal Action: Go out among the refugees incognito and see if there are any issues you should be aware of that aren't filtered up through official channels.
    (61)
    Notes on possible points of friction and arising problems, as well as solutions:
    Bigoted behavior among the arriving refugees toward non-heterosexuals, with pushback by our people.
    -Propagandize our social norms among the refugees to stave off close-minded and bigoted behavior.
    -Propagandize the nation's need to help the refugees integrate to stave off a xenophobic reaction among the people.

    Increased use of temporary housing instead of permanent residences.
    -Build more housing (duh).

    Cultural rank-closing when interacting with our culture.
    -Create some cultural spaces to allow for better integration.
    -Build cultural workshops to better integrate artisans with ours and boost cultural growth.

    Worries about access to food.
    -Make more food to stave off malnutrition and ease potentially developing hoarding behavior.

    --[X] Lover Action: Beach episode with the family. You kids are old enough now to enjoy themselves, and you and Mai would undoubtedly appreciate the break.
    (73)
    "Ma Li, apologize to your brother for destroying his castle; Chaoxiang, do not eat that, Mei...where is Mei? Mei!"

    It was a surprisingly exhausting break from work but worth the pictures you took. The time spent with your children brought you closer, though an...incident...with Ma Li did make you question if your girl is perhaps a bit too fascinated with fire. And Bo Ni is far too timid, in your opinion, but you are confident that age and military service will iron that out to something less negative. Introspection and thought are all good things, but not acting when you should is a flaw he shouldn't get too comfortable with.

    [Ma Li gained the Character Trait: Pyromaniac! (The flames call to this one...)]
    [Bo Ni gained the Character Trait: Timid! (There is thinking, and there is hesitating. This person likes to do both in excess.)]

    {Awed Ambition: +2 to Space Actions (Electronics, Metallurgy, Education), +1 to All Automation Projects
    Automated-Communism Manifesto: +1 to all Automation Projects (Global)}

    +6 to your first Civilian Rocket Project
    +4 to your first Military Plane Factory
    +1 to all Housing Actions for the Entire 5-Year-Plan
    +1 to any Spy Action
    +6 to any Technology
    +6 to Experimental Nuclear Reactor
    +2 to Recover Your Sunken Fleet.
    +4 to any Design using Flipper Propulsion
    +10 to Designing a Submarine
    +2 to Designing a Torpedo

    Reputation - (48/100 Reputation - The nation develops, yet where lies its path?)
    People's Opinion - (94/100 Reputation - All Hail The Great Leader! The Silver Tongued Stateswright! Bringer Of Prosperity And Plenty! *Loud Cheers*)
    Chinese Opinion - (3/10 - The People's Republic remains committed to our alliance against the Imperial Dogs during these troubled times.)
    History Page - (A name, several paragraphs of your life, the steelworks incident, the Iwo Jima Crisis of 1974, and links to dissertations of the Thai-Brain Drain. Several pages and links to dissertations are dedicated to your advancement of digital technology. A dozen links and pages devoted to your influence on the Automatic Technocratic movement. Several dates of important milestones in your life, political and private. Some (horny) memes due to your big family.)

    Light Industry - Meh - (Permanent Small Improvements)
    Heavy Industry - Adequate - (Permanent Small Improvements)
    Military Industry - Good - (Permanent Small-ish Improvements)
    Agriculture - Adequate- (Static, Trending Upwards Painfully Slowly)

    [] (Optional: Write-In Commiewood Project) (No Plan)

    [] Infrastructure
    -[] Automate Factory/Facility/Project (What) (Various Reputation Gains)
    -[] Das Capital Planned City (Mega-Project) (Trigger Sub-Vote)
    -[] Build Your School-System (Mega-Project - 35/40 Actions - +5 Per Turn Automatic Progress)
    -[] Build A Monument Within The Capital
    --[] A Natural Park/Space/Building (Sub-Turns) (+/-??? Reputation/People's Opinion)
    ---[] Permaculture Gardens - Mixed-use agricultural/recreational spaces that yield both local produce for the city's population and pleasant spaces to relax and take in nature.
    --[] A Statue/Art Installation (Sub-Turns) (+/-??? Reputation/People's Opinion)
    -[] Improve Roads (Helpful)
    -[] Expand Your Public Transit Bus System (Helpful) (-4 Reputation)
    -[] Create New Housing (Helpful)
    --[] Use Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
    --[] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)
    -[] Design New Housing Concept (Design)
    --[] The Universal Building (-8 Reputation)
    -[] Improve Medical Infrastructure (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-3 Reputation)
    -[] Build New Police Stations (Helpful)
    -[] Durable Goods Libraries (-2 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
    (A good way of improving quality of life without needing to produce too many consumer goods is to implement a program where people can borrow more infrequently used goods from a central storehouse - things like vacuum cleaners, specialized cookware, hand tools, etc. The libraries can also double as social and entertainment spaces by including a television or radio, depending on the size of the library and the number of people served. These activities draw people to the library, increasing their familiarity.)
    -[] Public Radio/Televisions (-2 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
    (Add TVs/Radios to specific public venues where people can get entertained and informed in a social setting. Once again, it lets you have some access to these sorts of luxury goods without needing to make a lot of radios and TVs.)
    -[] Fluoridate the Water Supply (Helpful) (-4 People's Opinion)
    -[] (WRITE-IN)
    [] Light Industry
    -[] Cyberdize Light Industry Sector (Mega-Project - 0/5 Actions) (Secret Is Out)
    -[] Automate Factory/Facility/Project (What) (Various Reputation Gains)
    -[] Increase Electrification (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
    -[] Expand Your Train Network (Helpful)
    -[] Construct Consumer Goods Factory (What) (Helpful) (-1 Reputation)
    -[] Develop Selkie Dive Suit - A standard dive suit for civilian and military divers. (-3 Reputation) (Suspicious)
    -[] Reverse Engineer Western Durable Goods/Appliances (-4 Reputation)
    (Acquire western goods/appliances and determine their best and worst features, then create your own - free from the constraints of planned obsolescence and the profit motive and optimized for lifetime cost and performance. "Communist cooktops for communist cooks!")
    -[] Construct a food processing factory for frozen and flash-frozen foods. (Very Helpful)
    (Primarily meats and vegetables. Keep expansion in mind for either biodegradable boxes for frozen box meals that can be thrown away or nonbiodegradable boxes. You'll pay your people a tiny amount of the price to return to the factory.)
    -[] Build Vitamin Supplement Factory (Helpful) (-1 Reputation)
    [] Develop Solar Cauldron (-1 Reputation)
    -[] Develop Thermal Battery (+1 Reputation)
    -[] Water Desalination (-1 Reputation)
    -[] Oil Processing (+1 Reputation)
    -[] Food Processing (-3 Reputation)
    -[] Ammonia Production (-2 Reputation)
    -[] Mineral Processing (-1 Reputation)
    -[] Papermaking (-2 Reputation)
    -[] Electrical Generation
    [] Implement Six Sigma Methodologies (-2 Reputation)
    [] Implement Just in Time Logistics (-1 Reputation)
    [] Implement Continuous Improvement Programs (-2 People's Opinion)
    [] Develop Lights-Out Manufacturing (+2 Reputation)
    [] Generic Appliance Factory (+2 Reputation)
    [] Generic Furniture Factory (+2 Reputation)
    [] Generic Household Hardware Factory (+2 Reputation)
    [] Establish Ateliers (-5 Reputation)
    -[] Tailors & Cobblers
    -[] Woodworkers
    -[] Metalworkers
    [] Establish Rubber Plantations (-4 People's Opinion) (Harmful)
    [] Bulk Textiles Mill (-3 People's Opinion) (Harmful)
    [] Generic Bulk Clothing Factory (+1 People's Opinion) (Harmful)
    [] Establish More Publishing Houses (+2 People's Opinion)
    [] Build Breweries (+3 People's Opinion) (Harmful)
    [] Bottled Drinks Factory (+1 People's Opinion)
    [] Food Dehydration Plant (-1 Reputation)
    [] Petrochemical Plant (+3 Reputation)
    [] Pharmaceuticals Plant (+2 Reputation)
    [] Chemical Commodities Plant (+2 Reputation)
    -[] Ammonia (Fertilizer)
    [] Fine Chemicals Plant (+1 Reputation)
    -[] Agrochemicals (Pesticides)
    [] Specialty Chemicals Plant (+2 Reputation)
    [] Inorganic Chemicals Plant (+1 Reputation)
    [] Polymer Plant (+2 Reputation)
    [] Consumer Chemical Plant (-1 Reputation)
    -[] (WRITE-IN)
    [] Heavy Industry (+2/+2 to Geothermal Power (Trade/Omake))
    -[] Cyberdize Heavy Industry Sector (Mega-Project - 0/15 Actions) (+2 Reputation) (Secret Is Out)
    -[] Automate Factory/Facility/Project (What) (Various Reputation Gains)
    -[] Automate Every Factory (Mega-Project - 2/15 Actions) (-7 People's Opinion) (Genie is out of the bottle) (Extremely Harmful (Job Loss)) (+1 per Turn Automatic Progress)
    -[] Construct Housing Factory - (Design) (+1 Reputation) (Automated)
    -[] Build Structural Insulated Panel Factory Complex (-10 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
    (Steel Mill, Glass Factory, and Bamboo Mill for durable, lightweight panels that reduce the need for heating/cooling during summer and winter.)
    -[] Construct A Tractor Factory
    -[] Construct Another Steel Foundry (Harmful) (+2 Reputation)
    -[] Construct A Heavy Machinery Plant (Harmful) (+3 Reputation)
    -[] Build Rolling Stock And Rail Factory (Harmful) (+1 Reputation) (Reduced Actions For The Dragon Rail)
    -[] Construct A Power Plant (Helpful)
    -[] Construct A Geothermal Power Plant (Helpful)
    -[] Improve Your Metallurgical Institute (Harmful) (+1 Reputation)
    -[] Research The "Incidental Star Blood Development Process" (???) (Requires Improved Metallurgical Institute)
    -[] Develop Hydrothermal Carbonization (-3 Reputation)
    -[] Construct A (Iron Tiger Derived) Electronics Factory (+3 Reputation) (Harmful) (Highly Suspicious) (Steel Foundry Needed)
    -[] Crack the 800 nm Process (Mega Project - 0/4 Actions) (-3 Reputation) (Suspicious)
    -[] Expand Your Mines (Harmful)
    -[] Construct Another Harbor (Helpful)
    -[] Construct Five Merchant Marine Vessels
    -[] Design A Civilian Vehicle (Describe) (-2 Reputation)
    --[] Design Modular Skateboard Vehicle Chassis (Mega Project - 0/3 Actions) (-2 Reputation)
    --[] Industrial IT-Skeleton (+5 Reputation) (Helpful) (Exposes Secret)
    -[] Design A Civilian Ship (Describe) (-2 Reputation)
    --[] New Fishing Trawler
    -[] Design A Civilian Aircraft (Describe)
    -[] Design Cauldrons (Geothermal) (Mega Project - 0/8 Actions) (-3 Reputation)
    (Mega-industrial parks that use geothermal power for thermal processes and electricity generation. Self-sufficient in terms of power needs and capable of exporting power to the grid while providing heating to nearby greenhouses and homes.)
    -[] Rail Development Design Project (Mega-project - 0/3) (+1 Reputation) (Reduced Actions For The Dragon Rail)
    (Automated Track Laying Machinery, Electric Trains, and Streetcars will be heavily needed in your future projects of tying the people and their work closer together.)
    -[] The Dragon Rail (Mega-project - 0/64) (Harmful)
    (Lay The Dragon's Spine, The central trunk line running the island's length, the Dragon's Limbs, branching rail lines headed to major and middling cities, and the Dragon's Claws - Streetcars for the larger cities. With this, your nation will finally be able to fully utilize its breadth and width of all available industrial might!)
    -[] Construct a Cosmodrome (Mega-project - 0/21) (Harmful) (+3 Reputation) (Requires "Apply to Interkosmos")
    --[] Jointly Operated with Interkosmos (+2 Auto-Completion per Turn, -7 Actions Needed) (-2 Reputation per Turn)
    -[] (WRITE-IN)
    [] Agri-, And Aquaculture
    (1 Action Forced)
    -[] Cyberdize Agricultural Sector (Mega-Project - 0/11 Actions) (-9 Reputation) (Secret Is Out)
    -[] Automate Factory/Facility/Project (What) (Various Reputation Gains)
    -[] Farmer's Councils (-20 Reputation) (Gain Another Faction)
    (The Agricultural sector was traditionally under-represented under Wei Cai's regime. Giving them a formal voice will help build trust with the rural farmers and ease further development.)
    -[] Guangchou Gyre Deep Water Fertilization (Mega-Project - 0/9 Actions) (-8 Reputation) (Extremely Helpful)
    (The Bay of Guangchou has a nice enormous ocean gyre spun up by the Taiwan current as it passes by the mouth of the bay, keeping the water relatively contained. If you had enough power, you could sink pumps to the bottom of the bay and pump cool, nutrient-rich water to the surface, where phytoplankton could thrive and become food for larger fish. In addition, nutrient-rich water would help kelp grow in the shallows and regulate the temperature to extend its growing season.)
    -[] Construct A Fertilizer Factory (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
    -[] Build a Herbicide & Pesticide Plant (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
    -[] Increase Farming Space (Helpful) (-3 Reputation)
    -[] Increase Herd Space (Helpful) (-4 Reputation)
    -[] Assemble A Fishing Fleet
    -[] Construct A Cannery Factory
    -[] Construct A Pre-Made Food Factory (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
    -[] Expand The Sea-Forest Project (Mega-Project - 0/6 Actions) (-3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion) (Extremely Helpful)
    (A massive area for cultivating food, resources, and scientific data, mostly used to gain and harvest kelp, fish, oysters, and mother of pearl.)
    -[] Begin Marine Farming (-3 Reputation)
    (While naturally occurring kelp forests are an excellent source of food, You can also improve the yield of a kelp farm by cultivating mussels, scallops, and oysters in predator-proof containers and laying traps for shellfish along the bottom.)
    -[] Create the Guangchou Survey Corps (-5 Reputation)
    (Form a body tasked with systematically surveying and preserving Guangchou's geological and biological resources - from undiscovered veins of minerals to plants and animals that can serve a useful purpose (or can be bred to do so). (Roll 1d20 every turn, on a 20, something useful is found.))
    -[] Solar Dehydrator Plant (Experimental) (-3 Reputation)
    (Due to the low-temperature drying process, solar-powered food dehydrators are simple and cheap to construct and preserve more nutrients than canning.)
    -[] Develop And Test Novel Food Production Methods (Mega-Project - 0/12 Actions) (-3 Reputation)
    (You can create further ways to make use of your available farming space to boost production with Industrial Mycoculture, Urban Permaculture Initiatives, Forest Farming (though you'll take full credit for that since IJ stole that idea from you!), Silvopasture, and Agroforestry)
    -[] Create Insect Farms (-1 Reputation) (Helpful)
    (Cricket and Mealworm Protein Cultivation are a cheap, plentiful, and versatile way to increase protein in people's diets.)
    -[] Construct an Experimental Vertical Hydroponics Test-Building (+1 Reputation)
    -[] Pemican Production Factory (-2 Reputation) (Helpful)
    (An ancient recipe from the Americas, made of powdered meat and fat that can store for years in a sealed container. Maintaining a stockpile will be full insurance against a poor harvest.)
    -[] Seed Treatment Factory (-2 Reputation)
    (Seeds can be treated with various compounds to increase their chances of germination and their resistance to sickness.)
    [] Implement Crop Breeding Programs (+2 Reputation)
    [] Fund Agricultural Veterinary Care (-3 Reputation)
    [] Develop Fish Ranching (-1 Reputation)
    -[] (WRITE-IN)
    [] Military (+4 to Design A Native Ship)
    -[] Automate Factory/Facility/Project (What) (Various Reputation Gains)
    -[] Soldier's Councils (Triggers Sub-Vote)
    (Bring communism to the barracks! And the cockpits! And the decks!)
    -[] Create A Dedicated Coast Guard (Will massively piss off the navy until you get them some ships+equipment)
    -[] Design Two Iron Tiger Systems (Describe) (Still Secret)
    --[] The Fateful Seal IT (Iron Tiger Revolver)
    (The FS-IT is a Fateful Seal redesigned for iron tiger use, developed to use 130x800mmR shells. The FS-IT, just like the FS, uses a 6-or-7-round cylinder and can shoot HE, SAP, and AP shells.)
    -[] Design A Native Tank (Describe) (+2 Reputation)
    --[] The Credit Where It's Due (Light Scout Tank)
    (Taking inspiration from the FT-17 (shape) and T-55A (armor and suspension), the CWID is the first native LST produced in Guangchou. Weighing 28 tons, this LST is armed with a light cannon, four missiles, a coaxial machine gun, and a heavy machine gun mounted on a pintle on the turret top; it is crewed by four crew and possesses a top speed of 48km/h. Though, it is notably light on the armor for a tank.)
    -[] Design A Native Plane (Describe) (+3 Reputation)
    --[] MiS-27 (Multi-Role Jet)
    (The MiS-27 is a Multi-Role jet aircraft, its shape inspired by the MiG-21, with the J37 providing its radical delta wing configuration. Flown by one pilot and armed with 2 Modified 25mm M/71 autocannons, this Jet also sports eight modular hardpoints to add rockets, bombs, fuel tanks, and supplies as needed or wanted.)
    -[] Design A Native Vehicle (Describe) (+2 Reputation)
    --[] The Police Carrier (Light Assault APC)
    (The PC is a simple armored personnel carrier taking inspiration from the BTR-152 (appearance/shape), the BTR-60 (turret), and the M3 half-track (tracks). At 20 tons with a top speed of 75 km/h on-road and 50 km/h off-road, this vehicle can transport its four crew and six passengers where needed. With only light armor protecting its passengers, it utilizes an imported Soviet 2A28 Grom, eight missiles, and a coaxial machine gun for offensive operations.)
    --[] The BTR-71 (Light Amphibious APC)
    (The BTR-71 has the general shape and appearance of the BTR-60 but has just about nothing in common. Weighing 20 tons, this LST is armed with a light cannon, four missiles, a coaxial machine gun, and a hull machine gun. It is crewed by four crew with a place for eight additional passengers and possesses a top speed of 80 km/h on-road and 12 km/h in water.)
    -[] Design A Native Ship (Describe) (+3 Reputation)
    --[] The Gunagch (Destroyer Escort)
    (Weighing at nearly 3kt and a length of 100m, the Gunagch is propelled by two electric drives/propellers, enabling a maximum speed/range of 25knots/20.000km (at 12knots). Armed with four 100m BS-4 guns in 2 twin turrets, eight modified 25mm M/71 autocannons in 4 twin mounts, sixteen 15x115mmR KPVT heavy machine guns in 4 quad mounts, and 80 depth charges.)
    --[] Coast Guard Cutter
    --[] Develop a Submarine (+3 Reputation)
    ---[] Tigerfish
    ---[] Tigerstripe
    ---[] Tigerstripefish
    ---[] (Write-In)
    -[] Design A Native Artillery/AA/AT Piece (Describe) (+1 Reputation)
    --[] The BS-4 (Crewed Anti-Tank)
    (The BS-4 is a field and anti-tank gun, taking inspiration from the BS-3. Its primary use is for coastal defense forces with a six-meter barrel and 11-meter length overall.)
    --[] The Police Carrier Anti-Tank (Self-Propelled AT)
    (The PC is a simple armored personnel carrier taking inspiration from the BTR-152 (appearance/shape), the BTR-60 (turret), and the M3 half-track (tracks). At 20 tons with a top speed of 75 km/h on-road and 50 km/h off-road, this vehicle can transport its five crew where needed. With only light armor protecting its passengers, it utilizes an imported Soviet KPVT HMG, a rocket-deliver platform, and a coaxial machine gun for offensive operations. Additionally, the passenger compartment of the PC has been removed in favor of an AT Cannon with a gun shield.)
    -[] Design A Native Sidearm (Describe) (Choose Any/All)
    --[] Fateful Seal (Revolver)
    (The Fateful Seal is designed as a top-break gas-seal revolver, using the Webley and the Nagant M1895 for inspiration. Research shows that as much as 26% of propellant gas escapes through the barrel and cylinder gap. Like more or less all gas-seal revolvers, the FS uses the cartridge case to seal the gap between the cylinder and the barrel. It uses a 13.2x55mmSR cartridge; the flat nose boattail bullet is 13.2 millimeters wide and 15 millimeters tall. It has a level on the right side, like the Webley revolver, and is used for the same purpose. Additionally, with the proposed 4.7-inch to 12-inch long barrels, the FS uses a combination detachable shoulder stock and holster and a 6-or-7-round cylinder.)
    --[] Conscript's Friend (Cheap Pistol)
    (The CF is a dead-simple integral box magazine pistol taking inspiration from the Steyr Hahn, the FN 1903, the Browning Hi-Power, and the TT-33. The FN 1903 provided the CF with its general shape and appearance, the Steyr Hahn, its integral magazine and stripper clip guide, the Browning Hi-Power knowledge on double-stack magazines, and some more modern safety features, and last but not least, the TT-33 gave the CF knowledge on simplicity. Cambered in an 8x40mmSR cartridge, the CF is designed to be as simple as possible while safely chambering its integral 10-round box fed with stripper clips. The handgun is supposed to be so simple that anyone who can rifle the barrel should be able to make the rest of the pistol with hand tools.)
    --[] Spook's Squeak (Agent Pistol)
    (The SQ is more or less a full copy of the Welrod except for its size and particular cartridge. With a total of 203mm in length, the SQ is chambered in the particular 6.5x30mmSR cartridge using a removable 8-shot magazine.)
    --[] The Soldiers Pistol (Army Pistol)
    The SP is essentially a Browning Hi-Power chambered in 10x37mmSR and fed from a 10 to 20-round detachable double-stack magazine with a barrel length of 12 cm and an overall length of 20 cm, not counting the detachable combination shoulder stock and holster.
    --[] Name Pending (Flaregun)
    (The NP is a small, light single-shot break-action flare gun taking inspiration from the Sturmpistole.)
    -[] Design A Native Service Weapon (Rifle, SMG, Heavy Machine Gun, Rocket launcher, Etc.) (Describe) (Choose Any/All) (+1 Reputation)
    --[] The Police's Friend (Bolt-Action Rifle with shotgun+grenade capabilities)
    (The PF, just like FS, is meant to be used by police and rear line units and is a bolt-action rifle design taking inspiration from the Lee-Enfield, the Swedish Mauser, and the Fateful Seal. The Swedish Mauser provided the PF with its general shape, appearance, and stripper clip guide, the Lee-Enfield it's magazine and sling mounts, and the Fateful Seal gave the PF the base for its unique 12 g under-barrel revolver shotgun. The PF is meant to be able to use 40mm rifle grenades such as HEAT, HE, and Smoke, with the under-barrel shotgun supposed to be primarily used for riot control in police use and rear line units. Chambered in the same 13.2x55mmSR cartridge as the Fateful Seal, the PF is fed from a 10-round detachable magazine with a 25-inch barrel length and a 40-inch overall length.)
    --[] The Militia's Friend (Cheap SMG)
    (The MF is a crude SMG taking inspiration from the Sten, PPS, Swedish m/45 SMG, MP 40, and MP 3008. The MF, just like the CF, is meant to be used not by the military but by the militia forces of Guangchou. The Swedish m/45 gave the MF its general shape and appearance; the MP 3008 gave the shoulder stock; the PPS, its knowledge of curved magazines; the MP 40, the safety features and sling mounts; and the Sten, its simplicity. With a fire rate of 570 rounds per minute, it is chambering the 8x40mmSR cartridge from a 20 to 30-round detachable box magazine or a 50-round drum with a 20-inch barrel and a 28-inch overall length. The MF is designed to be as simple as possible while still safely chambering its cartridge, and it's supposed to be so simple that anyone who can rifle the barrel should be able to make the rest of the "submachine" gun; using hand tools.)
    --[] The Soldiers Friend (Mainstay Select-Fire Rifle)
    (The SF is a relatively simple select-fire rifle taking inspiration from the AVS-36, the Fedorov Avtomat, the BAR, and the FG 42. It is meant to be used by professional forces, not police or militia. The BAR provided the SF with its general shape and appearance, the FG 42, the operational and gas system, the Fedorov Avtomat, the magazine, the dust cover, the AVS-36, and the muzzle brake and sling mounts. The SF has a fire rate of 406 to 610 rounds per minute, chambering the 6.5x57mmSR cartridge fed from a 20 or 25-round detachable box magazine while possessing a 28-inch barrel and a 40-inch overall length. The SF is designed to be a reasonably uncomplicated weapon yet modern and meant to be the main arm of the military while still being cheap to produce.)
    --[] The Guard's Arm (Costly High-Magazine SMG)
    (The GA is a costly high-quality submachine gun taking inspiration from the Browning Hi-Power, the MP 40, MP 5, and the Conscripts Friend and is meant to be used by the secret service and the guards of various military-industrial and laboratory installations. The conscripts friend gave the GA its general shape and appearance, the MP 5 its action, the MP 40 gave the detachable muzzle ring, and the Browning Hi-Power gave it the detachable double-stack magazine alongside modern safety features. The weapon possesses a fire rate of 457 to 800 rounds per minute chambered in a 6.5x30mmSR cartridge feeding from a 10 to 30-round detachable double-stack magazine or 48-round detachable double-stack drum. The GA is 457mm in length, not counting the detachable shoulder stock, and has a detachable muzzle ring that can be unscrewed to attach a suppressor.)
    --[] The Workers Might (Crewed Anti-Tank System)
    The WM is a recoilless rifle design inspired by the Carl Gustaf 8.4 cm recoilless rifle and the german 10.5 cm Leichtgeschütz 40. It is an anti-tank weapon meant for service with professional forces. The LG 40 gave the WM its general shape and appearance; the Carl Gustaf gave it its hinged breech. The WM uses unique 152x305mmR shells capable of firing HE and HEAT ammunition.
    --[] The Soldiers Arm (Mainstay SMG)
    The SA is a simple submachine gun taking inspiration from the United Defense M42 and the M50 Reising, meant to be used by professional forces. The UD M42 provided the SA its general shape, appearance, and wooden foregrip, and the M50 Reising gave the sights and sling mounts. The SA has a rate of fire of 570 to 800 rounds per minute, chambering the 10x37mmSR cartridge from a 20 to 30-round detachable double-stack box magazine or a 50-round detachable double-stack drum with a 35.6 cm long barrel and an overall length of 61 cm.
    -[] Design Native Equipment (Describe)
    --[] Develop Native Aircraft Engine
    --[] Develop Native Torpedo
    --[] Develop a Rocket Engine (+1 Reputation)
    --[] Develop a Rocket (+2 Reputation)
    --[] Develop an Orbital Satellite (Mega-Project - 0/3 Actions) (+2 Reputation)
    -[] Design Infantry IT-Alloy Bodyarmor (+3 Reputation)
    -[] Design Police IT-Alloy Bodyarmor And Shields (+1 Reputation) (-2 People's Opinion)
    -[] Import (What) (-1 Reputation)
    -[] Construct A Submarine Yard (Submarine) (+1 Reputation)
    -[] Construct A Torpedo Factory
    -[] Construct A Dedicated Naval Slipway (Ship)
    -[] Construct Coastal Defences (+2 Reputation)
    -[] Construct Interior Defences (+1 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
    -[] Construct An Airfield
    -[] Construct Military Building/Factory (What) (Harmful) (-2 People's Opinion)
    --[] Construct IT Electronics Factory (Harmful) (-4 Reputation)
    -[] Mingxiang Aeronautical Expansion (+2 Reputation)
    -[] Airy Might (Mega-project - 0/6) (+1 Reputation) (Harmful) (Requires Airy Modernization)
    (Build a (Fighter) Factory Complex, which will get us a force of 300 planes in 5 years. That should be enough for immediate deterrence. By also building a (Transport) and (Missile) Factory, we will ensure that we can incorporate the new designs fully without any missing equipment.)
    [] Navy Modernization (Mega-project) (0/8)
    -[] Expand The Military Academy (+2 Reputation) (-3 People's Opinion)
    -[] Raise A New Military Formation (What) (Harmful) (+1 Reputation) (-3 People's Opinion)
    --[] Raise a (Mechanized Combat Engineer) Formation
    -[] Raise A Iron Tiger Formation (Organization/Loadout) (Secret) (Suspicious)
    --[] WRITE IN CHOSEN LOADOUTS
    -[] Recover Your Sunken Fleet (Harmful) (+2 Reputation) (+2 People's Opinion) (+4 to any Naval Action)
    -[] Intimidate Taiwan (+5 Reputation)
    -[] Commit Exercises (+3 Reputation)
    -[] Secure Trade Routes
    -[] Raid International Shipping (What Goods) (Helpful/Harmful) (Roll above five, and you won't be caught.)
    -[] (WRITE-IN)
    [] Social
    -[] Expand Your Television Station (New Channel Name And/Or Focus)
    --[] The Social Revolution TV Channel (-1 Chinese Opinion)
    (Focuses on the social aspects of communism, why they're important, and how they tie into the broader communist project. It covers things like gender equality, the importance of contraception, why you shouldn't discriminate against queer people, readings and debates about Marx's later works where he refutes many of his earlier theories about stages, etc. (Head to Head is a popular segment where they bring the PRC and USSR ambassadors on the show to have them debate over their differing orthodoxies - people have started betting on which one will 'win.'))
    -[] Arrest Dissidents (Harmful) (-5 People's Opinion)
    -[] Purge Undesirable Citizens (Who) (Harmful) (+1 Reputation) (-5 People's Opinion)
    -[] Search And Destroy Rebels (Harmful) (-5 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)
    -[] Increase Surveillance (Harmful) (-5 People's Opinion)
    -[] Reduce Surveillance (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-3 Reputation)
    -[] Increase Social Control (How) (Helpful) (Harmful) (-3 People's Opinion) (+5 Reputation)
    -[] Propagandize An Achievement (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion)
    -[] Praise Workers From (Industry) (Helpful/Harmful) (+2 People's Opinion)
    -[] Boost (Social Statistic, example: Birthrates) (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion)
    -[] Propagandize Workers Conditions (Helpful)
    -[] Implement A Social Policy (Write-In) (Helpful/Harmful) (+3 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
    --[] Labour Reforms (Triggers Sub-Turns) (Helpful/Harmful) (+/-? People's Opinion) (+/-? Reputation)
    --[] Industrial Health & Safety Policy (Triggers Sub-Turns) (Helpful/Harmful) (+/-? People's Opinion) (+/-? Reputation)
    -[] Reduce Social Control (How) (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (-7 Reputation)
    -[] Vaccination Campaign (Disease) (Extremely Helpful)
    --[] Native Production And Doctors (-4 Reputation)
    --[] International Production And Doctors (Helpful) (-7 Reputation) (+2 People's Opinion)
    -[] Begin Public Sanitation Programs (Helpful)
    -[] Improve Foreign Intelligence Service
    --[] Industrial Espionage in Japan (-7 Reputation) (Suspicious)
    (Right now, there's a wide variance in the effectiveness of your foreign intelligence agents, which suggests a lack of effective mentorship and information transfer from the more successful ones to the less successful ones. Formalizing a training program means institutionalizing the knowledge of your best agents (with a focus on industrial espionage in Japan) should go a long way toward delivering more reliable results. Of course, industrial espionage may not be as glamorous as the political and military games the CIA and KGB played. Still, it's easier and has a better long-term payoff for the nation. Furthermore, narrowing the focus to Japan due to proximity, an abundance of high-tech industry, and ease of letting your agents blend into the population allows us to get the most optimal results for the effort invested.)
    --[] Western Heavy Machinery For Reverse Engineering
    --[] (Write-In Target/Activity)
    -[] Rationalize the Language (Mega-Project - 0/5 Actions) (+2 Chinese Opinion) (-5 People's Opinion)
    (Gunagchow is an unholy combination of Chinese and Japanese, with enough loan words from Korean and Malay to make up a non-trivial portion of the overall syntax and more exceptions than English. And it's written with Hanzi characters that often don't match their Mandarin counterparts, and never mind that the grammar and word construction don't always line up. Even before the systematic destruction of the island's infrastructure by the IJN air raids, literacy in Guangchou was among the lowest in the Asia-Pacific - mainly because the language was simply a massive headache to learn. Before establishing a robust schooling system, we have a golden opportunity to correct this and grant the nation a competitive advantage in international relations in the future. Guangchou will be rationalized and streamlined to make it easy to understand, pronounce, write, and read.)
    -[] (WRITE-IN)
    [] Political
    -[] Leader Pushed Developments
    --[] Reform Government Structure (Mega-Project - 0/10 Actions) (Triggers Sub-Vote) (-50 Reputation)
    -[] Found Department of Public Health (-4 Reputation)
    -[] Found Nutritional & Pharmaceutical Standards Agency (-2 Reputation)
    -[] Healthcare Reform (Sub-Vote) (-7 Reputation)
    -[] Apply to Interkosmos (-3 Chinese Opinion)
    -[] Food for Tractors (+3 Reputation) (-5 People's Opinion) (+1 Chinese Opinion)
    (Trade Omni-Tractors for Chinese food, taking advantage of Guangchou's expertise with manufacturing to produce lots of them at competitive prices. Hua Guofeng gets a nice bribe to help quell rural unrest; we get food, win-win. Also, appeal to the CCP on ideological grounds by including a rider that part of the cost of the tractors must be paid for directly in food from the farms it's used on, going straight to the workers of the Omni-Tractor factories. This is a symbolic gesture against the alienation of the industrial mode of production and hopefully opens up a dialogue between the end users and the people making the tractors, improving international solidarity and giving the manufacturers valuable feedback.)
    -[] Populists & Internationalists
    --[] Mend The Relationship With Pol Pot (+/-1d4-2 Reputation)
    --[] Have our glorified paparazzi help the Nationalists by seeing the value of ad campaigning abroad to increase the desire of our trade goods to increase their market value. (-3 Reputation)
    --[] Medical Student Exchange with Cuba (Helpful) (-4 Reputation)
    --[] Bother the Cubans for their "Home Self-Reliance And Repair Manual" (-3 Reputation)
    --[] (Gay) Immigration Propaganda (-3 Reputation) (-1 Chinese Opinion)
    ("In Guangchou, you will be free to be and love as your truest self, free from bigotry and oppression based on gender, sexual orientation, or race. If you want to help build a better world, come to Guangchou." The Internationalists will spread the word through their contacts abroad that Guangchou LACKS engineers and scientists, accountants, doctors, and other highly educated workers needed to fulfill the Great Leader's ambitious plans and that Guangchou ALSO has more Gay Liberation than you can shake a stick at. We may be able to attract quite a few learned professionals fleeing persecution in their home countries.)
    --[] Send Enbies To Establish A Formal Relationship
    ---[] The Somalia Democratic Republic
    ---[] New Zealand
    ---[] Indonesia
    ---[] India
    ---[] The Philippines
    ---[] Sri Lanka
    ---[] Myanmar
    ---[] Laos
    ---[] Cambodia
    ---[] (Write-In)
    --[] Brain Drain Time! (+4 Reputation)
    (A lot of nations are currently facing unrest or ethnic cleansing. We could take advantage of the fleeing populations and persecuted intellectuals to boost our native capabilities. Oh, and help the refugees too.
    ---[] Thailand (Easy - +5 Reputation if successful)
    ---[] (Write-In)
    --[] Southeast Asian Communist Kinship Programm (+3 Reputation)
    --[] CASEAN Outreach (+1 Reputation) (-1 Chinese Opinion)
    (Establish diplomatic relations with ideologically compatible nations in your sphere of influence. (Cambodia, Vietnam, North Korea, etc.))
    -[] National Consulting Services (+2 Reputation) (-1 Chinese Opinion)
    -[] Progressives
    --[] Have their experts focus on the economic issues and suggest how to increase food supply and ideas for a healthier economy. (-5 Reputation)
    -[] International
    --[] BEHOLD! My American Ship-
    ---[] Russian Ambassador (-1 Chinese Opinion) (???)
    ---[] Chinese Ambassador (+1 Chinese Opinion) (???)
    -[] Technologists
    --[] Form a Statistics Bureau (Focus) (-2 Reputation) (Political Consequences For Their Findings)
    -[] Militarists
    --[] Create a dedicated branch of Military Engineers (+Allies)
    --[] Buy Russian Trucks for native logistics and the military (-1 Chinese Opinion) (-5 Reputation) (Knock-On Effects)
    --[] Bugger the Russians for their Rockery in exchange for our knowledge in electronics (EXTREMELY SUSPICIOUS) (SECRET) (-3 Chinese Opinion) (Knock-On Effects)
    --[] Armed Solidarity (+7 Reputation) (+5 People's Opinion) (International (Read: West) Anger) (Repeatable)
    (A bloody massacre happened in Thailand, radically altering the country's political landscape and bringing forth every manner of vermin and revolutionary ally. Using sympathetic and allied forces, we could smuggle arms, trainers, equipment, and supplies to identify and contact groups to bolster their strength and capabilities. Even if we fail to ensure a complete revolution, a coup ending with sympathetic forces leading the nation will benefit us in the denial of yet another region to exploit the West's lust for money.)
    -[] (WRITE-IN)
    [] Secret Projects
    -[] Investigate Applications For WEISOFT Again
    -[] Mingxiang CyberSyn System 1.1.0 (Mega-Project - 0/18 Actions) (-9 Reputation)
    -[] Develop Native Supercomputer (Mega-Project - 0/4 Actions) (-8 Reputation)
    -[] Experimental Nuclear Reactor (Mega-Project - 0/10 Actions) (+3 Reputation per Turn/25 Reputation for 8 Actions spent in one turn)
    [] Wei Jungming - (RP)
    -[] Personal Action (Write-In two things he does within the next six months.)
    -[] Lover Action (Write-In one thing Wei Jungmin and Wei Mai do together in the next six months.)

    AN: I ran out of steam during the last bit, but what can you do? Anyways, off to sleep!
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    Thanks for the update!
     
    Glad we caught the tensions with the refugees.

    Edit: Did the housing actions buttress each other or do we need to take a housing action next turn to account for the failure this turn?
     
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