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

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HeroCooky said:
You can use as many actions as you want in any category you wish to use, there is no limit. : )

(Ps.: 12-16 is the "safe spot" before I apply mali though.)
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Thank you, i will try to get a plan ready today.

Ps:you forget to add "Sector General"(1980 - H2 - Wonderland, Gloried Be Thy Sunrise), "Songs of the City"(1977 - H1 - Foreign Moves, Internal News),"Cosmos"(1977 - H2 - Of God And Liberation),"Nachthexen"(1978 - H1 - Fully Automated Gay Communist Robots),"CommiePop"(1978 - H2 - Aerial Developments Arise As The Ground Is Made Habitable),"Red Son In The Morning, Capitalists Take Warning"(1979 - H1 - Ascendancy Of Your Airy, Intellectual, And Horned Might!),"Friendship Beach"(1979 - H2 - RISE! RISE! RISE!) and "Universal War"(1980 - The Second Plan Has Finished - 1) to the "Produced Media:" part of the of the "Commiewood Proposals" informative post.
 
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[X] Commiewood:Greeting Dish
Not a movie per say, but rather a first attempt at a professionally done documentary series from Guangchou. The world is divided because no one sees other people as people. And what brings people together better than food? Interviews with elderly grandmothers and the best professional cooks in the country, about who they are, what they do and what food means to them, as they exhibit the traditional cuisine of Guangchou. Intended for international consumption.

It could improve the way we are seen internationally and could be followed by other seasons focusing on the cuisines of the different cypac members.


This is my first plan for this quest, there are probably errors due to my misunderstanding of the mechanics of this quest, if anyone suggests improvements I will listen.

[X] Plan: the quest for fun

[X] Infrastructure
-[X] Build A Monument Within The Capital
--[X] A Natural Park/Space/Building (Sub-Turns) (+/-??? Reputation/People's Opinion)
---[X] 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.
-[X] Create New Housing (Helpful)
--[X] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)

More food and housing to deal with the arrival of brain drain action and (Gay) Immigration propaganda.
The park/garden gives something to do for those who are bored and improves the environment.
Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing seems to have the same effect as normal - but with better gain.

-[X] Improve Medical Infrastructure (Helpful) (-3 Reputation)

We need that.

-[X] Durable Goods Libraries (-2 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)

Easily improve the lives of our citizens and give them something to do.

-[X] (WRITE-IN)Ask your researcher to look for methods to help people with reduced mobility/perception by adapting the infrastructure or by means of tools that would be provided to them.


[X] Light Industry
[X] Pharmaceuticals Plant (+2 Reputation)

I doubt that the first Pharmaceuticals Plant can produce the variety or quantity of medicine needed in guangchou so here is a second one.

[X] Social
-[X] Vaccination Campaign (Disease - malaria) (Extremely Helpful)
--[X] Native Production And Doctors (-5 Reputation)

Hero Cooky what is currently the most problematic disease in Guangchou?
I just searched "southeast asia disease" and found malaria

-[X] Begin Public Sanitation Programs (Helpful)

It should reduce the stress on our medical infrastructure.

-[X] Rationalize the Language (Mega-Project - 0/5 Actions) (+2 Chinese Opinion) (-5 People's Opinion)
(Guang 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. Guang will be rationalized and streamlined to make it easy to understand, pronounce, write, and read.)

This should greatly facilitate the local production of highly educated citizens and the integration of immigrants.

[X] Political
-[X] Leader Pushed Developments
--[X] Create a Commission for the Upkeep and Conservation of Guangchou's Natural Spaces anf Habitats for the Workers Health and Enjoyment (Helpful) (-1 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)

It should pave the way for various ecological actions for us and perhaps modify the existing one to reduce their environmental impact.

-[X] Populists & Internationalists
--[X] (Gay) Immigration Propaganda (-3 Reputation) (-1 Chinese Opinion)
--[X] Brain Drain Time! (+4 Reputation)
---[X] Thailand (Easy - +5 Reputation if successful)

Come here graduates and scholars,the great country of Guangchou need you.

-[X] CyPac
-[X] Military Intervention - Mozambique (Optional: Volunteer Forces) (+2 Reputation)
-[X] Fuck The US of Middle North A - Cuba (Trade and Aid) (+4 Reputation)
-[X] Fuck The US of Middle North A - Nicaragua (Show the world what the US is sponsoring) (+7 Reputation)
-[X] Economic Cooperation - Tanzania (Promised Industrial Aid)

Fulfilling our promises, gaining reputation and harming the asshole government currently in place in the USA.

-[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
--[X] Personal Action:Create your with your advisers and apply a personalized learning program for you.

Make us more competent to govern, for example if it was a ck2 it would be an action that would improve our stats. (but it is not a ck2 so probably a narrative effect instead)

--[X] Personal Action:Go sailing on a boat along the coast and in the bay with your family to fish, scuba dive, learn to sail and have fun.

--[X] Lover Action: Go trekking with your wife in the beautiful wild environment of guangchou.


[] CHINA CIVIL WAR VOTE (Write-In what forces/commitments you provide offer once the war gets hot. 3 Turns Remain.)

I have no idea what to put here, if someone offers me something I will put it there.

edit:[X] China: Secure, Contain, Protect
 
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HeroCooky said:
It'll make your jobs harder, and provide fluff, so if you have the free time, why not?
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Ok i will try to I will try to make a list of notable diseases in this region of the world.

From what I understood, Guangzhou is a tropical island mainly made up of tropical forest, mountains which are sometimes volcanic, and coasts.
Are there marshes,lac,river,hill,cavern or other types of land?

Ps:why would it make our job harder ?
Whether we know them or not, these illnesses would have been there anyway, wouldn't they?
A list will only give a target for vaccination actions and add interesting details to the world.
 
Carcer said:
Are there marshes,lac,river,hill,cavern or other types of land?

Ps:why would it make our job harder ?
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No marshes, you have a semi-lake in the middle of the Island that is open to the ocean, hills are present, you have a few dozen caverns in the mountains that are either natural or the result of abandoned mining operations in the past collapsing/expanding, with jungles being in the south of Guangchou and more japanese forest-type woodlands in the north. You also have a lot of atolls and coral reefs around the island. Like, so many coral reefs. Holy shit is that a lot of coral reefs.

And it makes your job harder because I can now make people bitch about you not making concerted efforts to wipe specific diseases out, instead of them being happy that you are doing vaccination drives. :V
 
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[X] China: Secure, Contain, Protect
-[X] Loyalist areas of operation will be covertly fortified ahead of time and staffed by reliable personnel.
-[X] Representatives will be sent to Tibet to negotiate for its support of the Loyalist cause in exchange for post-war independence (and generous developmental aid from CyPac).
-[X] A few squadrons of Anatas plus a few Taos will be moved to Vietnam ahead of time on 'training exercises' for CyPac.
-[X] The Chinese fleet moored in Guangchou will be resupplied for interdiction of sea based smuggling routes and shore support.
-[X] When the balloon goes up, the Guang and Soviet air forces will move in from the north, east, and south and shoot down every enemy plane they come across. They have the technological edge here, and establishing air dominance will be a huge boost to the effectiveness of the allied forces assisting the Loyalists.
-[X] A no fly zone will be established that will make it harder to smuggle shit into the country by air. Patrolled by Soviet and Guang aircraft on the coast once the initial air campaign winds down, with the aid of our AEW&C aircraft.
-[X] Soviet armored columns will reinforce loyalist forces on the ground, providing the bulk of the infantry, tanks, and IFVs.
-[X] Guangchou will provide combined arms IT units for use in urban and hazardous terrain and logistic support.
-[X] The first priority of the ground campaign is to secure the coastline in order to make smuggling supplies by sea more difficult and hopefully degrade the logistics of the NLA and Warlord forces in the interior.
-[X] The second priority will be to seize and maintain control over key industrial and agricultural sites to both fuel the loyalist war effort as well as minimize the humanitarian crisis.
-[X] The bulk of Guanghou's contribution of non-IT military personnel will go towards securing and maintaining refugee camps for those displaced by the fighting. The language is closer to Mandarin so they'll have an easier time of this than the Soviets.
-[X] Vietnamese forces will move to reinforce Loyalist forces in Yunnan province, where their experience in guerilla warfare will hopefully be useful to closing off the Burma road which is absolutely going to be used to try to smuggle weapons and equipment to the NLA and Warlords in order to prolong the conflict.
-[X] The overall allied strategy is to prevent foreign influences from prolonging the conflict, and supply loyalist forces so they end up as the last ones standing. Securing the peace will take some serious work later, but that can wait until the war is won.

Listen, I'm (not legally) an engineer, not a general. You wanna talk to me about rockets, I can go all day. Don't ask me to plan a campaign.

[X] Plan: Managing Expectations

-[X] Infrastructure
--[X] Found the Ouvry (+3 Reputation) (Bonus: + 1 PttF = +1 Total)

A modern, professional volunteer organization with trained personnel and up to date equipment and operational standards, recruiting from our overwhelming applicant pool, with the goal of forming a labor army that can undertake large infrastructure projects quickly and efficiently.

Everyone gets a few months of basic training that includes physical conditions to make sure they can handle any requisite physical labor without injuring themselves, workplace safety, training in how to use basic tools, etc.
Then there are follow up specialization streams for vehicle drivers, masons, machinists, etc.
They get the equivalent of BDUs but in high vis instead of camouflage (winter and summer), noise protection (for construction sites instead of gunshots), hardhats instead of helmets, etc.

We're going to start working on Dragon Rail next turn IMO and we want to have this in place.
AND we're looking at a pretty major uptick in infrastructure spending over the second half of the plan (housing, agri), so we might see increased effectiveness for those actions with this in place.

I'm also concerned about our recruiting pool getting too big because the thought of that many young folks with nowhere productive to put all their energy is… something I'd prefer not to gamble with.

-[X] Light Industry
--[X] Pharmaceuticals Plant (+2 Reputation) (Bonus: + 2 Focus + 1 PttF = +3 Total)

Same as last time, helps with healthcare and gives us positive rep. I imagine we're slowly moving towards more and more native production of the WHO essential medicines list.

--[X] Expand Medical Imaging Plant (+0 Rep) (Bonus: +2 Electronics + 2 Focus + 1 PttF = +5 Total)

Building on the medium breakthrough we had before, we're going to forge ahead and work on more cutting edge medical imaging systems. Not so much inventing new stuff, but catching up to the west by establishing local manufacturing of things like PET scanners, NRI imaging (aka MRIs), electron beam tomography (CT scans), etc. We have decent industrial espionage capacity with regards to civilian stuff, so that'll help.

The other reason I want this compared to a vaccination drive is that in a d12 system, that +5 is very powerful, and it will more easily drive breakthrough events. In turn, we can turn around and export out fancy medical imagers in exchange for stuff we want from our allies.

--[X] Auto-Serology (+0 Rep) (Bonus: + 2 Electronics + 1 Automation + 2 Focus + 1 PttF = +6 Total)

Given how we're pushing up against limitations on trained experts, I'm gonna assume we're short on lab techs. And given that we're very good at automation, developing some equipment to automate away a bunch of the repetitive work of the people who run blood tests and whatnot would let us do more of said tests.

And again, this is the sort of tech we can export in exchange for stuff we need.

@HeroCooky, does the +1 to Automation count towards this as well or is it overridden by our +2 to Electronics?

-[X] Generic Appliance Factory (+2 Reputation)

Between the Ouvry creating more jobs, and this supplying some consumer goods, we can hopefully keep the situation stable in terms of PO loss.

-[X] Agri-, And Aquaculture
--[X] Expand Crop Breeding Programs (+4 Reputation) (Helpful) (Bonus: +1 PffF = +1 Total)

I had to boot a medical action to fit this one in, but frankly we need the Rep and our food situation is deteriorating, though not very fast.

-[X] Political
--[X] Healthcare Reform (Sub-Vote) (-7 Reputation) (-9 People's Opinion) (Bonus: + 2 Focus + 1 PttF = +3 Total)

Don't look at me like that, y'all wanted healthcare reform as an explicit plan goal and this is our last shot to put the Focus bonus to use.

--[X] Brain Drain Time! (+4 Reputation)
---[X] Thailand (Easy - +5 Reputation if successful)

We need the rep and the educated professionals.

-[X] Secret Projects
--[X] Develop Native Supercomputer (Mega-Project - 3/3 Actions) (-8 Reputation) (-6 People's Opinion) (Bonus: +2 Electronics + 2 Focus + 1 PttF = +5 Total)

Yes, the -8 rep hurts, but it is what it is. It gives us more actions next turn with which to recover Reputation. There are some very juicy CyPac options that will come in very handy.

-[X] CyPac
--[X] Military Intervention - Benin (Optional: Volunteer Forces) (+2 Reputation)
---[X] Optional: Dispatch forces.
--[X] Military Intervention - West Saharah (Optional: Volunteer Forces) (+2 Reputation)
---[X] Optional: Dispatch forces.

All promises we made, and ones we want to act on sooner rather than later IMO before our enemies flood these places with arms and equipment to bog us down in insurgencies.

I've also added a general Dispatch Forces action to all of them to season our troops and equipment and get them used to working in peacekeeping and anti-insurgency operation the likes of which we'll probably have to partake in during the Chinese Civil War.
I don't have the time or energy to get more detailed than this, I'll leave the exact breakdown of what we send where up to our in-universe military planners.

-[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
--[X] Personal Action: PRESENTATION!

It occurs to Jungmin that as the guy who kind of spearheaded the formation of CyPac he's going to end up very visible on the international scene, which gets him thinking about how he presents himself.

"What do you think Mai, should I grow out my hair? Maybe add a red and black stripe?"

--[X] Personal Action: You need more friends, loser.

"Not me."
"Weiiiiiiiiiiiii!"
"Go away, you know I'm even more married to my job than you are."

--[X] Lover Action: Go trekking with your wife in the beautiful wild environment of Guangchou.

"One of these days I'm going to trip on a rock or get bitten by a snake and I'll die and it'll be super awkward for you to eulogize."
 
HeroCooky said:
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A list of some notable diseases in east asia. (that were discovered before the 2000s)

Nipah virus: identified in 1998 in Malasya.
Avian influenza A H5N1: first isolated from a goose in China in 1996.
chikungunya virus: first isolated in the United Republic of Tanzania in 1952,apeared in asia in the 60s.
japanese encephalitis: documented in 1871 in japan.
Dengue fever: first record of a case of probable dengue fever is in a Chinese medical encyclopedia from the jin dynasty (266-420),confirmed descriptions date from an outbreak from 1779.
Nipah virus: first seen in 1998 in peninsular Malaysia .
Rabies:has been known since around 2000 BC,exist almost everywhere,strongly affects Asia and Africa.
hiv/aids: first cases of AIDS in Asia were reported mid-1980s, the more extensive spread occurring in Cambodia, India, Myanmar and Thailand in the early 1990s.
Streptococcus suis: first reported by veterinarians in 1954 in Denmark,first human case in 1968 spread to asia shortly after.
Leptospirosis: first described in 1886 in Germany,present in asia since at least the era of ancient china.
Tuberculosis :can be traced back to 9,000 years ago and oldest desription in asia are 3300 year old,Asia is strongly affected.
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: Exists since 1943 and the first anti tuberculosis treatment, exists everywhere.
Malaria: has existed for thousands of years and in 1990 was present in Africa, Asia, Central and South America

I hope this will be useful to you.


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can we improve the Statistics Bureau to get more detailed or new information?

Like (Potable water,crime/security,entertainment,happiness,electricityification,raw material,education,faith,freedom,state of the environment (both the ecology and whether it is healthy to live there),tourism,Machined part (electronics, concrete bag, machine part, steel beam, board, cable, etc etc..)) for exemple.
 
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[X] Commiewood:Greeting Dish
[X] China: Secure, Contain, Protect
[X] Plan: Managing Expectations
 
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