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

[Manowl]

Don't think that Ireland is going to be interested in cypac because can imagine that they haven't changed much aka pretty much just Island Switzerland that likes to there soldiers as peace keepers and not much else.

 

[Darkandus]

Don't think that Ireland is going to be interested in cypac because can imagine that they haven't changed much aka pretty much just Island Switzerland that likes to there soldiers as peace keepers and not much else.

Click to shrink...

Some parts of the political class might not be interested, but other parts and certainly the common man would be more than interested in joining an economic bloc that doesn't ask them to shed their neutrality or enter into wars.

In the 1980's, Ireland was the sick man of Europe.
Inflation, a vastly overvalued currency that needed two readjustments, massive borrowing with interest rates as high as 60%. Very little foreign investment and an unemployment rate that only reached a peak of almost 17.5% because half a million people emigrated due to lack of work. If those people hadn't been able to emigrate, you're likely looking at an unemployment rate nearing 40%. The country was broke as fuck. If you dangle an economic boom in front of their faces, they'd likely dive at it as only the deprived and starving can. The only real chance of it not happening is if the church kicked up a fuss. And if someone were to conveniently discover and unveil the churches atrocities in Ireland that weren't particularly well hidden... well, I'm sure the communist rebels would get a wellspring of support.

 

[Manowl]

Some parts of the political class might not be interested, but other parts and certainly the common man would be more than interested in joining an economic bloc that doesn't ask them to shed their neutrality or enter into wars.

In the 1980's, Ireland was the sick man of Europe.
Inflation, a vastly overvalued currency that needed two readjustments, massive borrowing with interest rates as high as 60%. Very little foreign investment and an unemployment rate that only reached a peak of almost 17.5% because half a million people emigrated due to lack of work. If those people hadn't been able to emigrate, you're likely looking at an unemployment rate nearing 40%. The country was broke as fuck. If you dangle an economic boom in front of their faces, they'd likely dive at it as only the deprived and starving can. The only real chance of it not happening is if the church kicked up a fuss. And if someone were to conveniently discover and unveil the churches atrocities in Ireland that weren't particularly well hidden... well, I'm sure the communist rebels would get a wellspring of support.

Click to shrink...

It will have to be a nonviolent revolution the eu will not tolerate a violent revolution, or more accurately will have no excuse for a invasion to prevent what looks to them as being boxed in by the cypak on one side and the Soviet Union on the other.

 

[CyberFemme]

It will have to be a nonviolent revolution the eu will not tolerate a violent revolution, or more accurately will have no excuse for a invasion to prevent what looks to them as being boxed in by the cypak on one side and the Soviet Union on the other.

Click to shrink...

Imagine thinking a nonviolent revolution will somehow protect you from foreign backed regime change.

 

[AndrewPandrew27]

If Ireland were to go communist and join our bloc, i propose this flag that I found on Reddit for it.

Reddit - Dive into anything

www.reddit.com

 

[AndrewPandrew27]

I would also like to point out on the map the the anti communist, Islamic extremists in Afghanistan are no more so that's a huge plus for us.

 

[HeroCooky]

Interesting to see Portugal and Spain have joined the EU. Any particular reason why ?


What do you mean by that ? Do you mean the EU is more solidified ? Like they decide by qualified majority instead of unanimity ?

Click to shrink...

EU has just gotten a fair few more good rolls in TTL than OTL, so some things are early for it, such as the flag and a European Defense Pact slowly working on making a united defensive army framework and reality.

And yeah, but also some more laws that allow it to put pressure on countries in it that are fucking around, thinking they won't find out.

 

[Saphire]

Can I write an omake for this?

Click to shrink...

Just please don't make IPv4 - Communist Edition, with the "IPv4" part standing for "It sucks but we are forever stuck with it "

Also I have a post earlier for general "stuff that might be relevant for the modern networking and how it appeared" though it's far from complete overview..

 

[cryptoam]

Oh no, I'm just typing up an RFC for an encryption and authentication layer. It's supposed to be run over other protocols.

PS:
If anyone wants a look or help, feel free to head over to the public google doc here.

 

[HeroCooky]

​

Core Principles:
--Developmentalism: Members will aid one another in the sustainable development of their native forces of production. [1]
--Anti-Imperialism: Members will present a united block in the face of imperialist forces, internal and external. [2]
--Mutual Aid: Members will provide humanitarian aid in other member states in case of natural or artificial disasters. [3]
--Conflict Resolution: Members will not coerce other members through military, economic, or covert means but agree to resolve their conflicts via negotiation and consensus building. [4]
--Nation Building: Members will work towards creating robust social and political institutions that encourage peace, stability, and good governance. [5]
--Socioeconomic Justice: Members will work towards ensuring that their economic gains are shared equitably with their population and that people are not put in danger due to things like their race, sex, orientation, etc. [6]

Spoiler: Explanations

[1] For instance, Guangchou would provide electronics and computation time for economic planning, Egypt might build a shit ton of concentrated solar plants and export ammonium fertilizers, etc.
[2] For instance, West Sahara joins up; the others would be supposed to put diplomatic and economic pressure on Morocco to pull out. Or provide each other with aid in countering western covert operations against each other.
[3] Is somebody in here having a famine? Send them food. Disease outbreak? Send them meds. Etc.
[4] Many of our members have been at war with each other at various points or exist in unstable locations. We want to avoid having them go at each other's throats.
[5] A bunch of nations we're inviting are very, very young and need more social and political infrastructure in place; working on that and creating conditions where they can work on that is critical.
[6] Basically, don't kill people for being gay (seriously, if you don't like them that much, send them to Guangchou), and don't let a small elite hoard wealth.

Member States/Status:
Yugoslavia - Happy
Albania - Anti-Religion Dogma
North Korea - Desires A Supercomputer (Due 1985-90.) (8 Actions)
Vietnam - Happy
Bangladesh - Calm
Kampuchea - Calm
Mongolia - Calm
Afghanistan - Happy
Iran - Happy
Iraq - Calm
Syria - Calm
Egypt - Happy
Lybia - Calm
Algeria - Calm
Mauritania - Calm
Western Sahara - Very Happy
South Yemen - Happy
Sudan - Industrial Aid
Tunisia - Happy
Ghana - Calm
Togo - Calm
Benin - Diplomatic Aid
Guinea - Calm
Guinea-Bissau - Industrial Aid
Mali - Happy
Burkina Faso - Happy
Mozambique - Very Happy
Tanzania - Calm
Madagascar - Serious Debt Problems
Somalia - Calm
Ethiopia - Calm
Cuba - Calm
Nicaragua - Vicious Satisfaction


Cohesion - 90%
+10% due to Hardline against Somalia - (Core Principle - Socioeconomic Justice - Upheld)
+15% due to Industrial Aid - (Mongolia, Iraq, Tanzania), Famine Relief - Mali, Military Intervention - Iran
+10% due to Military Intervention - Benin, Western Sahara
+5% due to Military Intervention - Syria
+15% due to Military Intervention - South Yemen, Mozambique
+20% due to IMF Bailout - (Madagascar, Sudan, Yugoslavia), A Red Rising
+15% due to Mozambique - Promised Native Mingxiang, Fuck The US of Middle North A - Nicaragua, and Take a diplomatic tour of CyPac.


Federation Advancements Reached (0/12):
N/A


Past Conflicts:
1981 • H2 - Iranian Civil War Intervention - Status: Successful
1982 • H1 - Benin Civil War Intervention - Status: Successful (1983 - H2)
1982 • H1 - Western Sahara Independence War - Status: Successful
1983 • H1 - South Yemen Military Intervention - Status: Successful
1983 • H1 - Mozambique Civil War Intervention - Status: Successful
1983 • H2 - IMF Bailout - Madagascar, Sudan, Yugoslavia - Status: Successful
1983 • H2 - A Red Rising - Status: Ongoing

 

[Carcer]

Nicaragua - Sunglasses Emoji
aren't these people in extremely serious problems because of the Americans who screw up at home and they are waiting for us to send a team to film, document and broadcast the horrors caused by the USA?

 

[HeroCooky]

Nicaragua - Sunglasses Emoji
aren't these people in extremely serious problems because of the Americans who screw up at home and they are waiting for us to send a team to film, document and broadcast the horrors caused by the USA?

Click to shrink...

Yes, but they are hiding that behind the sunglasses. And also all of South America is currently having a "Religious Communist Revolution Speedrun, Any%" competition, so some heat is being taken off them.

Doesn't meant that they aren't getting antsy, but hey, Commie South America!

 

[abominable]

Yes, but they are hiding that behind the sunglasses. And also all of South America is currently having a "Religious Communist Revolution Speedrun, Any%" competition, so some heat is being taken off them.

Doesn't meant that they aren't getting antsy, but hey, Commie South America!

Click to shrink...

Should just call em Basedmerica. They're the most isolated geographically and they're still holding out.

 

[AndrewPandrew27]

Yes, but they are hiding that behind the sunglasses. And also all of South America is currently having a "Religious Communist Revolution Speedrun, Any%" competition, so some heat is being taken off them.

Doesn't meant that they aren't getting antsy, but hey, Commie South America!

Click to shrink...

I can only Imagine the huge amount of paranoia, rage, as violent bigotry to its Latino citizens America is going through right now.

 

[Barondoctor]

From what I can tell, the SWEAT score (Spaces Working towards Equilibrium At this Time) is 14 "US Allies with communist guerrillas" to 1 "CyPac with anti-comm guerrillas" in South America. Africa / Middle East / India regional is a bit more even, but that 14-1 gap probably has the US sweating a little bit.

 

[CyberFemme]

Can we cover Yugoslavia, Sudan, and Madagascar's debt issues with one CyPac action?
It doesn't seem like something that would require a lot of resources to be marshaled. Set up some financial aid from the rest of CyPac with everyone chipping in a bit proportional to their treasury.

 

[HeroCooky]

Spoiler: Vote

[X] Plan: basic, simple, and reliable
-[X] Stage 1 - Approve As Is
-[X] Stage 2 - Approve As Is
-[X] Stage 3 - Approve As Is

[X] Commiewood: Greeting Dish
Not a movie per se, 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.

[X] Plan: Managing Expectations
-[X] Infrastructure
--[X] Found the Ouvry (+3 Reputation) (Bonus: + 1 PttF = +1 Total)
-[X] Light Industry
--[X] Pharmaceuticals Plant (+2 Reputation) (Bonus: + 2 Focus + 1 PttF = +3 Total)
--[X] Expand Medical Imaging Plant (+0 Rep) (Bonus: +2 Electronics + 2 Focus + 1 PttF = +5 Total)
--[X] Auto-Serology (+0 Rep) (Bonus: + 2 Electronics + 1 Automation + 2 Focus + 1 PttF = +6 Total)
-[X] Generic Appliance Factory (+2 Reputation)
-[X] Agri-, And Aquaculture
--[X] Expand Crop Breeding Programs (+4 Reputation) (Helpful) (Bonus: +1 PffF = +1 Total)
-[X] Political
--[X] Brain Drain Time! (+4 Reputation)
---[X] Thailand (Easy - +5 Reputation if successful)
-[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)
-[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.
-[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
--[X] Personal Action: PRESENTATION!
--[X] Personal Action: You need more friends, loser.
--[X] Lover Action: Go trekking with your wife in the beautiful wild environment of guangchou.

[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 significantly boost the effectiveness of the allied forces assisting the Loyalists.
-[X] A no-fly zone will be established, making smuggling shit into the country by air harder. 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 to make smuggling supplies by sea more challenging 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 critical industrial and agricultural sites to fuel the loyalist war effort and minimize the humanitarian crisis.
-[X] The bulk of Guangchou'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 with this than the Soviets.
-[X] Vietnamese forces will move to reinforce Loyalist forces in Yunnan province, where their experience in guerilla warfare will hopefully help close off the Burma road, which is absolutely going to be used to try to smuggle weapons and equipment to the NLA and Warlords 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.

[X] Commiewood: Greeting Dish
Not a movie per se, 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 grandparents 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.

"This is a recipe my father would always make me when I was sick," Ju Ni said, gently cutting apart the fish on the table and setting aside the various parts for later use. "It has always brought me comfort when I couldn't run around and play, helped me far later in life when I was an adult, and has brought my children and grandchildren comfort, too," he continued, grabbing various herbs taken from his garden before mixing them together, to later season the fish with. "It helps the immune system, and it tastes good too!" He says with a laugh, gently sizzling the prepared fish before laying the food out. A light meal for a weak stomach, but one filled with good things and full of taste for numb tongues.
-Episode 2 - Meals That Heal


[X] Plan: Managing Expectations
-[X] Infrastructure
--[X] Found the Ouvry (+3 Reputation) (Bonus: + 1 PttF = +1 Total)
(12 + 1 = 13 - Minor Breakthrough)
The Guangchou Workers Foundational Labor Army for Large Scale Advancements and Improvements, GWFLALSAI for short, had no issue finding people willing to enlist. Many were even eager to work under its direction to streamline the flexible construction of large-scale infrastructure projects that the people may need to undertake to see the people's continued prosperity rise and bring prosperity to one and all from the highest tips of the Northern Monastery Fortresses to the deepest parts of the Southern Mines. Under the direction of their newly elected Union Leaders, the members of the GWFLALSAI swiftly began to organize themselves according to previous occupations, talents, interests, and abilities, with training in specialized labor and physical conditioning taking place as soon as possible, ensuring all members were as able to work as they were unlikely to injure themselves. Adding onto the personal measures were mandated safety standards, primarily basics. Still, one works with a lighter heart while wearing gloves, a hard hat, ear protection, a visibility jacket, and goggles when needed, alongside other common-sense directives such as frequent water breaks, weather-appropriate clothing, and on-site medical attention capacity.


-[X] Light Industry
--[X] Pharmaceuticals Plant (+2 Reputation) (Bonus: + 2 Focus + 1 PttF = +3 Total)
(4 + 3 = 7 - Optimal)
Additional pharmaceutical plants are constructed within the allotted time frame, aiding their already existing brethren within their district even more power while improving themselves through slowly ramping up production of scale, with medications of all kinds being manufactured in ever-increasing numbers, quality, and diversity. The union overseeing the medical workers within these plants is already devising plans and preparing for the expansion of the medical sector; their communications with the various healthcare worker unions and overall planning department move a constant stream of information from one side to the other, all the while their proposed targets are adjusted to account for the reality of the situation, rather than any imposed mandate.


--[X] Expand Medical Imaging Plant (+3 Rep) (Bonus: +2 Electronics + 2 Focus + 1 PttF = +5 Total)
(9 + 5 = 14 - Minor Breakthrough)
Lu Nahani and Zi Chu sat in a small bar within an LSEEH, the hustle and bustle of Das Kapital forgotten within the small room, rather a storage closet if one had to be truthful. At the same time, both stared at the little plaques before them, the once steaming bowls of noodles already eaten with the ravenous hunger of those working too much and relaxing too little. Both were in a mood best described as "sorrowful," with the two expensive glasses of alcohol half-drunk in their hands further lending to the image. But, really, what was to be done? They had finished a large part of their life two hours ago, and neither was sure what to do now that they had done their role in creating a better world.

"I..." Lu tried to speak, faltering after a few seconds before running a hand through his hair. "...it does not feel real," he decided after a few moments, picking up his plaque, the bronze thing glittering in the humming lights merrily spreading their orange glow above.

"I know, I mean..." Zi continued, making a weak gesture with their hand as if to encompass something and everything at once. "We were proud of our work, still are," they add hastily, "but this? I didn't think we could even get that kind of reward..." Zi continues, their voice fading off into nothingness.

Lu doesn't respond, merely looking at the plaque given to them by the Great Leader himself, 'Vanguard of the People' glinting back at him. The second-highest award a civilian could get. All for medical machines...

Machines that would help millions. Machines now in mass production and standing as peers to those made in the West.


--[X] Auto-Serology (+0 Rep) (Bonus: + 2 Electronics + 1 Automation + 2 Focus + 1 PttF = +6 Total)
(1 + 6 = 7 - Optimal)
The reduction of the need for specialized and trained workers to perform route work that takes away valuable time has always been a driving factor in innovation, be it for the production of more materials or the creation of better methods to ensure that once specialized work becomes routine, able to be done by anyone with some training. So too, does Serology enter the work done by machines within Guangchou, various devices, and programs taking tedious and long-taking work that does not need supervision away, leaving specialists to focus on other parts of their jobs. Though it is not a revolutionary change, it is one that frees many thousands of work hours all over the island and the year, all focused on more productive tasks that wouldn't have been finished otherwise.


-[X] Generic Appliance Factory (+2 Reputation)
(8 - Optimal)
What good is all the work in the world if you have nothing to show for it? Why should one toil in the mines to improve society if they do not get anything in return? How can a world get better if the lot of the people stays the same? Questions asked many times and answered more over the ages than can be counted. For Guangchou, at least, those questions are answered by the ease of one's life and the work to be done at home when not working at one's place of employment.


-[X] Agri-, And Aquaculture
--[X] Expand Crop Breeding Programs (+4 Reputation) (Helpful) (Bonus: +1 PffF = +1 Total)
(12 + 1 = 13 - Minor Breakthrough)
"Several improvements in the resistance of rice against common diseases and bugs have been achieved over the last few years, increasing the efficiency of the plant by a notable degree, though the greatest improvements were in the breeding of better strains of potatoes better adapted to local conditions. We surmise that an increase of caloric efficiency per square meter of 1.9% was achieved at the lowest, with 3.4% at the highest. Further studies are continuing, with promising mutations within various strains of wheat, cabbages, and onions undergoing large-scale testing."
-Report on the Crop Breeding Program


-[X] Political
--[X] Brain Drain Time! (+4 Reputation)
---[X] Thailand (Easy - +5 Reputation if successful)
(10 - Boosted)
"Numerous dissatisfied or persecuted students, scientists, intellectuals, and specialized workers were given the ability to flee to Guangchou, with most taking the offer with minimal hesitation. While integration is an ongoing issue, they have been used to plug various holes in the workforce lacking specialized workers or to supplement flagging efforts."
-Report of the Statistics Bureau


-[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)
(11 + 5 = 16 - Medium Breakthrough)
"Hey, how are the new parts working out so far?"
"Eh, some break easily, others function better than expected. Though, overall, we are seeing an increase in speed and computational power!"
"Good, we need to crunch some numbers later for the Dragon Rail materials; you know how the Factory Councils can get when they are told to produce but not how much."
"Ugh, you tell me!"


-[X] CyPac
--[X] Military Intervention - Benin (Optional: Volunteer Forces) (+2 Reputation)
---[X] Optional: Dispatch forces.
(11 - Boosted)
"My first encounter with them? ... Yes, it was shortly after a raid on a munitions depot. I and the rest of my unit had finished loading everything we had taken onto our trucks, with some passing around a few smokes we found in someone's private stash when we heard it. It sounded like muffled thumps of mortars shooting at first until it turned into the thumps of giants running at us. The moment I put my finger on the trigger of my gun was when I saw them come around the bend, their hulking forms covered by camo fabrics and netting, with nothing preparing us for what came next. The moment everyone took to puzzle out what they were looking at was the moment they needed to snap up their weapons and fire. They...shot, I think, it was more akin to a rattling of everything within my body, and the man next to me just...[several seconds of pause happen]...vanished. I turned to look, something warm trickling down my arm, with nothing but boots and feet left where a man stood seconds before. That was all I needed to scream and to fire back, the kick of my AK throwing my aim off, but enough to make the...Steel Leopard, I believe you called it? Steel Leopard take cover, the sound of bullets hitting metal clear in my ears, alongside the screams of more men firing back. That was when I tried to seek cover, but the spirits deemed my fate otherwise, as I lost my footing on the blood-slick ground and bashed my head against it, losing consciousness."
-Interview of a surviving soldier of the first known combat action of Mecha.

[All systems are performing as expected, with Gen1 pilots loving the Gen2 regarding responsiveness, weight, and handling. In particular, the newly made Gyroscopes are being praised, with the Dragon Spite Gatling having found a quick following of adherents just a tad too enthusiastic with the weapon.

The area that the Steel Leopards are noted as struggling in regards to armor. However, that has seen various solutions passed on by engineers and pilots, with the first recommending better armoring schemes and the latter requesting the development of Mech-scale shields to take cover behind. The latter is cheaper, if at the cost of weight. Additional problems are primarily technical, with our local teams already compiling what teething problems can be fixed quickly and what needs more time.

The reception of the locals and enemy combatants has been positive and frightened, respectively. The Steel Leopards make quite a show of themselves when merely walking around, their armor, height, weaponry, paint schemes, and camo-coverings lending them the air of highly lethal giants stalking the jungles, a fact that has boosted our allies' moral and damaged our foes in the same strike. Nobody wants to realize they are in the middle of a squad of Steel Leopards because they failed to spot them, only to be lit up with a mortar and Gatlings at once, like some lasses in the third managed to do. Heard the locals call 'em the 'Green Tigers.' The translation takes something out, I am told.]


--[X] Military Intervention - West Saharah (Optional: Volunteer Forces) (+2 Reputation)
---[X] Optional: Dispatch forces.
(9 - Optimal)
The Sahrawi called the storming of Boucra "The Marching Vengeance," for the Steel Leopards and volunteers of CyPac shattered aside all Moroccan attempts at holding the wall they were building, the massive machines roaring hatred and lead like lions at those who had killed so many of them a paltry few years ago.

The storm of international outrage and Moroccan fury was ignored by the Sahrawi wholly as Boucraa fell to their forces, the flag of a free people rising proud and strong, unbowed and mighty.

When Moroccan jets fell from the sky into Boujdour setting houses and districts aflame, killing predominantly Moroccan settlers, their soldiers only looked on in satisfaction, veterans remembering the bombing of their refugee camps with napalm and white phosphorus in '76 far too well. The pilots who flew the Anattas were hailed as heroes by them all, celebrated, and never in want of any food or drink when their role was revealed.

El Aaiún rose. Steel Leopards marched, the roar of their rockets and Gatlings joined by the thump of artillery and crunch of threads, volunteers and soldiers fighting side by side to drive out the last bastion of Moroccan oppression from their lands, throwing them back beyond the border.

And Mohamed Abdelaziz cried tears of joy and pain, his people freed, for now, and the long road to independence assured with allies at their side.


-[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
--[X] Personal Action: PRESENTATION!
--[X] Personal Action: You need more friends, loser.
(47)
It was a typical day for the Wei family as Jungmin walked through his home to clear his head, the sight of his children growing up always lifting his spirits. Bo Ni taught Chaoxiang in the library how to draw. Jangmi and Hu ran circles around Bara, the latter busy chasing them with a fake sword under the eyes of Jungming's mother, as Mei and Ma Li had volunteered at an animal shelter, the first dragging the latter away from absolutely, 100%, not fire-based activities to spend time around big dogs the first was in love with in a way only a child can be. Only Daiyu seemed to be missing from the small army of children-

Jungmin stopped walking.
He walked backward for several steps.
He looked to the left of him, looking at Daiyu in a brown dress looking at him as Mai rummaged around in a pile of other clothes she had dumped on the bed.

"What are you doing?" Jungmin asked as politely as he could while he walked into the room, hiding his fury with the expertise of his years spent wrangling the nation.

"Huh?" Mai replied, looking over her shoulder before looking at the clothes she had dumped on the bed again. "Daiyu wanted to wear a dress, so I brought some," she continued as if nothing was amiss.

Jungmin took a deep breath to steady himself at...at..."Are you serious?" He hissed, not able to stop himself. Unnoticed by him, Daiyu shrunk in on himself. "You put Daiyu in that?" Jungmin continued, pointing at his child's dress, slow fury bubbling to the front.

"What is wrong with it?" Mei asked, now properly confused as she held..she he...sh-

"No, absolutely not!" Jungmin half-shouted, grabbing the dark-green dress Mei held in her arms with one hand. "Are you doing a bit?" He asked, gesturing to the dress. "Or are you serious?"

"Hey, what's wrong with the dress?" Mei quickly responded, mildly offended, as Jungmin put his head into both of his hands, a sound of misery escaping him. "What? What?!"

"I have failed you," Jungmin eventually said, looking at her with tears before looking at his spooked child. "But I won't fail you. Get into some proper clothes! Brown is not your color! We will buy you a dress that actually compliments you! Brown! The nerve of her!" Jungmin began to rant, his voice slowly receding as he walked away.

"What is wrong with brown?" Mei asked, mildly offended, before looking at her child.

"Not my color," Daiyu responded in half confusion, half seriousness.

***​

I looked up from the entrance, the high ceiling of the building revealing several stories visible within, rows upon rows of clothing present within and chock-full of even more cloth, signs denoting changing areas, tailoring areas, and where one could find help. With wide eyes, I took one step-"YOU UTTER BASTARD!" A voice suddenly shouted; a man in very loose and colorful clothing with both shoulders exposed walked rapidly at father, anger and fury etched into his face, one arm and finger extended as he pointed. "YOU THINK YOU CAN WALTZ BACK IN HERE AFTER YOU LE-is that your son?" He continued to shout before stopping half a step away and one finger on fathers chest, now looking at me.

"Yes," he replied, patting me on the head, "also possibly daughter, child, or whatever Daiyu decides on." The man made an 'oh' sound before the fury in his eyes rekindled itself, though-"and we are here because Mei decided to put a brown dress on them."

A second passed. Then the man put his face into his hands. "I failed you," he muttered as he came up, tears in his eyes.

"I tried, but I couldn't educate her," Father replied with a similar misery before both shared a hug. "You cannot imagine the suffering I have to endure daily. She wanted to wear honey colors last week!"

The man looked as shocked as I felt awkward, though he quickly recovered. "Well, I can excuse your failure then, but I will rip you a new one once we get the little one into a proper set of clothing!"

"That was the plan," Father said with a smile, causing both to turn their gaze onto me.

Why did they feel predatory?


--[X] Lover Action: Go trekking with your wife in the beautiful wild environment of Guangchou.
(80)

"I have never seen such bullshit," Mei whispered, looking at her husband undressing himself to dip in the small waterfall lake she had discovered as a teen, her eyes firmly locked onto her man without any shame. "That man is tempting me, and he knows it," she continued, firmly watching before a primal part in her brain whacked the higher functions to death and told her to get on with the program. So she did. Multiple times.

Thank the surgeons they had snipped their parts, or she would have had another child.


[USA] Peacekeeping
Sebastian King is a name both revered and reviled within the Journalistic Community. One side hates him for his actions in South America, where he wrote lies and stoked the Red Scare burning within the US for mere money, while the other side lauds him for his bravery in exposing the truth and speaking where others would have silenced him. He himself has never talked about his series "Exposing the Communist South American Central Directory," which he had invented to pay off a debt Sebastian was slowly amassing and saw few ways to escape from, so we can only speculate what he would have said, today, about the domino effect he started for his desire to be paid a quick buck.

It is well known that in the early '80s, the United States was not a stable country, far from it. One consequence of the formation of CyPac, the intervention in Western Sahara and Benin with the first combat use of Mecha shown on film, alongside the economic panic gripping the nation and creeping into the First World at large, was a significant slip-up of the CIA within the South Americas. Once well-managed countries firmly under the thumb and direction of corporations via funding corrupt regimes or deposing democratically elected politicians and governments, the internal troubles of the US and a long con by Guangchou had allowed the spread of "Liberation Theology" within the continent to continue unopposed...until it reached critical mass years after being let loose.

Everywhere one looked, you could find whispers of uprisings, fights in the name of God and People, the red banner and the holy cross raised against oppression and tyrants. Or so Sebastian King wrote back home from his hotel room in São Paulo, painting the idea of a massive rising of communists subverting the message of God to their whims, slaving people that were once good god-fearing capitalists to their perverted means, all to take control. And they did not do so alone, in one country where they may be squashed, but all over the continent, rising in their millions against all that was good and holy in the world, under the direction of a singular driving directive: the South American Central Directory, dedicated to overthrowing all dutifully elected and righteous governments of the Americas.

A lie for all that had eyes to see, but a fact in that time for all that couldn't look up the truth on any convenient internet that we now have, but they lacked.

As a result, the idea of another continent flying the red flag echoed deeply within a public already being shown images of communist machines of war straight out of science fiction marching against cities and prevailing, human bodies perverted into another species rising from hidden laboratories within Germany, and a world flying the red banner with ever more joining their rank.

Perhaps it would have resulted in nothing more than another Red Scare, or maybe something else would have happened, but it all came to a head when Hudson Austin declared Grenada for the "World Revolution" on the 18th of April in 1982 after forcing and winning a "special election" through the government with the help of blackmail, threats, and bribery.

This act, it seemed, was the drop in the bucket that was too much, with American boots hitting the soil two days later.

The rest, as they say, was history. Bloody, deadly, tear-filled history.


[Internal Development] Keeping Pace
The last few years have seen a massive leap in industrial and technological capability for Guangchou, with advancements in nearly every category of national and scientific importance. However, what has not taken place was a general pace keeping with the world's military advances, something made evident in the currently ongoing or finished interventions, with Guangchou only able to excel in Iron Tigers and Aircraft. To resolve this, the Military has proposed a general effort to rapidly bring about several advancements for the nation's vehicle pool to ensure that, should it come to conflict on a larger scale, the military will be able to perform its duties in seeing the workers of the world safe or freed.

[] Initiate Military Desing Effort (Chosen Designs)
(Include in Plan-Voting. Takes 1 Action. Choose three of the following:
2 Naval Vessels, 1 Submarine, 1 Helicopter, 1 Tank, 1 IFV.
One option can be chosen multiple times.)
[] Do Not
(The Military is miffed.)


[Chinese Civil War] The Early Start
One can say what they can say, but plans are only so much smoke and fantasy in the face of reality. For those hoping to prevail, those crying for freedom, and those seeking to profit, that smoke spread on the 7th of Juli, 1982, the actions of one private setting in motion a war that ruptured a nation once united, now divided.

China was at war with itself. As history demanded.

Sides:
Chinese Republic And Free Tibet
CCP
Warlords

Locations:

Chinese Republic - Dark Green
Free Tibet - Light Green
CCP - Red
Warlords - Black

Event Decision:
(Decouple from Plan Vote)
[] [Chinese Civil War Duration] 18 Months
(Updates: 5, Tone: Grim Realism)
[] [Chinese Civil War Duration] 1 Year
(Updates: 3, Tone: Historical)
[] [Chinese Civil War Duration] 6 Months
(Updates: 1, Tone: Call of Duty-Game Esque)


{-4 People's Opinion per Turn due to increased demands for QoL and Civilian Goods. Increases by 1 next Turn.
+1 to all Actions (1x Professionals To The Fore!)
Awed Ambition: +2 to Space Actions (Electronics, Metallurgy, Education), +1 to All Automation Projects
Automated-Communism Manifesto: +1 to all Automation Projects (Global)}

Spoiler: Collated (Relevant) Bonuses

+2 to any Meat-Based Project
+6 to your first Civilian Rocket Project
+2 to Recover Your Sunken Fleet
+4 to any Design using Flipper Propulsion
+10 to Designing a Submarine
+2 to Designing a Torpedo
+5 to Nuclear Reactors

Reputation - (53/100 Reputation - Steepled Hands)
People's Opinion - (68/100 Reputation - A Happy People Await The Fruits Of Their Labors.)
History Page - (A name, several pages of your life, the Iwo Jima Crisis of 1974, links to dissertations of the Thai-Brain Drain, Iron Tiger, and Supercomputer Programs, alongside the Guang Healthcare Collapse of 1980. Several dozen pages and links to dissertations are dedicated to your advancement of multiple technologies. A dozen links and pages devoted to your influence on the Automatic Technocratic Movement (ATM). Three dozen pages and several dozen links to more regarding the Cybernetic Pact and its effects on Politics, History, and African Unity. Several dates of important milestones in your life, political and private. Some (horny) memes due to your big family.)

[Statistics Bureau]
Housing: -1 (Lacking) / +/-
Food: -1 (Lacking) / --
Healthcare: -3 (Merely On Fire) / +++++
Fuel: -1 (Lacking) / -
Available Recruits: +2 (Overwhelming) / -----------

Light Industry - Adequate - (Slight Upwards Trend)
Heavy Industry - Good - (Static)
Military Industry - Good - (Static) - (Slight Downwards Trend)
Agriculture - Good - (Static) - (Slight Downwards Trend)

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

[] Infrastructure

Spoiler

-[] Automate Factory/Facility/Project (What) (Various Reputation Gains)
-[] Das Kapital Planned City (Mega-Project) (Trigger Sub-Vote)
-[] 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) (-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 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.)
-[] Develop a Tourism Sector
-[] Increase the allotted number of Restaurants (+2 People's Opinion)
-[] (WRITE-IN)

[] Light Industry

Spoiler

-[] Increase Electrification (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Expand Your Train Network (Helpful)
-[] Construct Consumer Goods Factory (What) (Helpful) (-1 Reputation)
-[] 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 meals that can be thrown away or nonbiodegradable boxes. You'll pay your people a tiny amount of the price to return those 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 (-3 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)
[] Generic Bulk Clothing Factory (+1 People's Opinion)
[] Establish More Publishing Houses (+3 People's Opinion)
[] Build Breweries (+4 People's Opinion) (Harmful)
[] Bottled Drinks Factory (+2 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))

Spoiler

-[X] Cosmodrome (Mega-Project - 2/8 Actions) (Automatic - No Cost)
-[X] Native Space Industrial Complex (Mega-Project - 2/8 Actions) (Automatic - No Cost)
-[] Cyberdize Heavy Industry Sector (Mega-Project - 1/12 Actions)
-[] Automate Factory/Facility/Project (What) (Various Reputation Gains)
-[] Automate Every Factory (Mega-Project - 10/12 Actions) (-7 People's Opinion) (Extremely Harmful (Job Loss)) (+1 per Turn Automatic Progress)
-[] Construct Housing Factory - (Design) (+1 Reputation) (Automated)
-[] Build Structural Insulated Panel Factory Complex (-10 Reputation)
(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 A 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 Electronics Factories (+4 Reputation)
-[] Crack the 600 nm Process (Mega Project - 0/6 Actions) (-6 Reputation) (-2 People's Opinion)
-[] Expand Your Mines (Harmful)
-[] Construct Another Harbor (Helpful)
-[] Construct Merchant Marine Vessels
-[] Design A Civilian Vehicle (Describe) (-2 Reputation)
--[] Industrial IT-Skeleton (+5 Reputation) (Helpful)
-[] 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 heating 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 to tie 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!)
-[] (WRITE-IN)

[] Agri-, And Aquaculture

Spoiler

-[] Cyberdize Agricultural Sector (Mega-Project - 0/7 Actions) (-9 Reputation)
-[] Automate Factory/Facility/Project (What) (Various Reputation Gains)
-[] 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) (Extremely Helpful)
(A massive area for cultivating food, resources, and scientific data, primarily used to gain and harvest kelp, fish, oysters, and mother of pearl.)
-[] Expand Marine Farming (-3 Reputation)
(While naturally occurring kelp forests are an excellent food source, 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.)
-[] Solar Dehydrator Plant (Experimental) (-3 Reputation)
(Due to the low-temperature drying, 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 germination chances and resistance to sickness.)
[] Expand Crop Breeding Programs (+4 Reputation) (Helpful)
[] Fund Agricultural Veterinary Care (-3 Reputation)
[] Develop Fish Ranching (-1 Reputation)
-[] (WRITE-IN)

[] Military (+4 to Design A Native Ship)

Spoiler

-[] 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/A New Iron Tiger (Describe) (+5 Reputation)

Spoiler: Thread Designs

--[] 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)

Spoiler: Thread Designs

--[] 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)

Spoiler: Thread Designs

--[] 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)

Spoiler: Thread Designs

--[] 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)

Spoiler: Thread Designs

--[] The Gunagch (Destroyer Escort)
(Weighing at nearly 3kt and 100m long, the Gunagch is propelled by two electric drives/propellers, enabling a maximum speed/range of 25knots/20.000km (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)

Spoiler: Thread Designs

--[] 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)

Spoiler: Thread Designs

--[] 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 combines detachable shoulder stock, 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, integral magazine and stripper clip guide, the Browning Hi-Power knowledge on double-stack magazines, and 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 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 stock.
--[] Name Pending (Flaregun)
(The NP is a small, light single-shot break-action flare gun inspired by the Sturmpistole.)

-[] Design A Native Service Weapon (Rifle, SMG, Heavy Machine Gun, Rocket launcher, Etc.) (Describe) (Choose Any/All) (+1 Reputation)

Spoiler: Thread Designs

--[] 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 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 conscript's 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 has a fire rate of 457 to 800 rounds per minute, chambered in a 6.5x30mmSR cartridge from a 10 to 30-round detachable double-stack magazine or 48-round detachable double-stack drum. The GA is 457mm long, 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) (+8 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
-[] Construct An Airfield
-[] Construct Military Building/Factory (What) (Harmful) (-3 People's Opinion)
--[] Construct Military Electronics Factory (-4 Reputation)
-[] Mingxiang Astronautics Expansion (+3 Reputation)
-[] Mingxiang Rocketry Expansion (+5 Reputation)
-[] Navy Modernization (+2 Reputation)
-[] Expand The Military Academy (+2 Reputation) (-4 People's Opinion)
-[] Raise A New Military Formation (What) (Harmful) (+1 Reputation) (-4 People's Opinion)
--[] Raise a (Mechanized Combat Engineer) Formation
-[] Raise A Iron Tiger Formation (Generation+Purpose)
--[] Write-In Chosen Purpose
-[] Recover Your Sunken Fleet (+2 Reputation) (+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

Spoiler

-[] 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 essential, 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 Worker's 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)
-[] Reduce Social Control (How) (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (-7 Reputation)
-[] Expand Medical Education (-4 Reputation) (+3 People's Opinion) (Helpful)
-[] Vaccination Campaign (Disease - Specifics Required) (Extremely Helpful)
--[] Native Production And Doctors (-5 Reputation)
--[] International Production And Doctors (Helpful) (-11 Reputation) (-9 People's Opinion)
-[] 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 need for more 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) (+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.)
-[] (WRITE-IN)

[] Political

Spoiler

-[] Leader Pushed Developments
--[Y] Healthcare Reform (Mega-Project - 6/47 Actions) (Automatic +6 Actions per Turn)
--[] Reform Government Structure (Mega-Project - 0/10 Actions) (Triggers Sub-Vote) (-50 Reputation)
--[] Create a Commission for the Upkeep and Conservation of Guangchou's Natural Spaces and Habitats for the Worker's Health and Enjoyment (Helpful) (-1 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] The Dragon's Den - The Dragon Rail Network is looking ever more like a thing that can be put off "for now" every time you seek to begin work, and with a year already having passed, you'd rather begin work now, than have to force a shock labor order later. By wrangling everyone behind the project, you'd be able to complete not only it but expand the urban and agricultural spaces of Guangchou by using convenient sites on the way, further increasing its positive impact on the people of Guangchou. (Mega-Project 0/99 Actions) (-17 Reputation) (+1 Automatic Progress per Turn once taken.)
--[] Continued Spreading of The People's Theology (+4 Reputation) (+5% CyPac Cohesion)
-[] Populists & Internationalists
--[] Have our glorified paparazzi help the Nationalists by seeing the value of ad campaigning abroad to increase the desire for our trade goods to increase their market value. (-3 Reputation)
--[] Video...Games...? (Helpful) (+3 Reputation) (+7 People's Opinion)
(Videogames? Arcades? Eh?)
--[] Medical Student Exchange with Cuba (Helpful) (-4 Reputation) (-5 People's Opinion)
--[] (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 can attract quite a few learned professionals fleeing persecution in their home countries.)
--[] Brain Drain Time! (+4 Reputation)
(A lot of nations are currently facing unrest or ethnic cleansing. We could exploit the fleeing populations and persecuted intellectuals to boost our native capabilities. Oh, and help the refugees too.
---[] (Write-In)
--[] Southeast Asian Communist Kinship Programm (+3 Reputation)
-[] National Consulting Services (+2 Reputation)
-[] 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
--[] Video...Games...? (Helpful) (+3 Reputation) (+7 People's Opinion)
(Videogames? Arcades? Eh?)
-[] Technologists
--[] Improve the Statistics Bureau (Focus) (-3 Reputation) (Political Consequences For Their Findings)
--[] Vocational Shock Effort (Helpful) (-4 People's Opinion)
-[] Militarists
--[] Create a dedicated branch of Military Engineers (+Allies)
--[] Buy Russian Trucks for native logistics and the military (-5 Reputation) (Knock-On Effects)
--[] Bugger the Russians for their Rockery in exchange for our knowledge in electronics (Knock-On Effects)
-[] (WRITE-IN)

[] Cybernetic Pact (1 Action Free)

Spoiler

-[] NK promised Supercomputer (Promised Next 5-Year-Plan)
-[] Mozambique - Promised Native Mingxiang (Within this Plan required)
-[] Military Intervention - Syria (Optional: Volunteer Forces) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Military Intervention - South Yemen (Optional: Volunteer Forces) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Optional Military Intervention - Mozambique (Optional: Volunteer Forces) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Fuck The US of Middle North A - Cuba (Trade and Aid) (+4 Reputation)
-[] Fuck The US of Middle North A - Nicaragua (Show the world what the US is sponsoring) (+7 Reputation)
-[] Economic Cooperation - Egypt (Infrastructure and Housing)
-[] Economic Cooperation - Libya (Electronics)
-[] Economic Cooperation - Togo (Show 'Em We Ain't Bad)
-[] Economic Cooperation - Guinea (Industrial Aid)
-[] Economic Cooperation - Tanzania (Promised Industrial Aid)
-[] Economic Cooperation - Ethiopia (Generic)
-[] IMF Bailout - Madagascar, Sudan, Yugoslavia (Bailout) (+1 Reputation)
-[] The Red Dew (+5 Reputation)
Ireland is in deep trouble, wracked by unrest, strife, and economic despair. While technically in the camp of the EU, dangling very generous Economic and Industrial Aid in front of them could bring them over to us...and if that doesn't do it? Well, they do have a revolutionary front fermenting within their nation...
-[] Freedom's Cry (+5 Reputation)
South Africa has long been under the yoke of imperialists, racists, and the West. It is time that those who fight against their tyrannical regime are armed and trained as befitting a people yearning to be free.
-[] A Red Rising (+5 Reputation)
Our efforts in South America are slowly paying off, with Liberation Theology spreading ever faster. If only some pushes were applied, then some countries wouldn't be experiencing unrest...but civil wars for the freedom of the workers.
-[] Inter-Alliance Culinary Exchange (+2 Reputation) (+2 People's Opinion)
-[] (Write-In)

[] Secret Projects

Spoiler

-[] Investigate Applications For WEISOFT Again
-[] Mingxiang CyberSyn System 1.1.0 (Mega-Project - 2/12 Actions) (-8 Reputation)
-[] Develop Native Supercomputer (Mega-Project - 0/3 Actions) (-8 Reputation) (-6 People's Opinion)
-[] Experimental Molten Salt Reactor (Mega-Project - 0/5 Actions) (???)

[] 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.)

 

[abominable]

Eh. Ill leave it to better minds to decide the rest of the military stuff. We still got that bonus for a new naval vessel. Im guessing people are gonna go for subs first?

@HeroCooky are we gonna do design turns or just voting amongst finished design proposals? Iirc people already submitted a few theoretical designs for certain vehicles/hulls.

 

[supernerd91692]

i think i remember you saying a while ago that the new immigrant are not intergrating with us is that still a problem?

 

[HeroCooky]

@HeroCooky are we gonna do design turns or just voting amongst finished design proposals? Iirc people already submitted a few theoretical designs for certain vehicles/hulls.

Click to shrink...

The latter. The design update will come after the China one, so plenty of time to work.

i think i remember you saying a while ago that the new immigrant are not intergrating with us is that still a problem?

Click to shrink...

Yes.

 

[abominable]

There goes Murica, making another part of the world hate them more.

 

[MrRageQuit]

Can you put up a tracker of our plan goals and how much we have completed? I'm having trouble following our progress.

 

[Zavvnao]

-[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)
(11 + 5 = 16 - Medium Breakthrough)
"Hey, how are the new parts working out so far?"
"Eh, some break easily, others function better than expected. Though, overall, we are seeing an increase in speed and computational power!"
"Good, we need to crunch some numbers later for the Dragon Rail materials; you know how the Factory Councils can get when they are told to produce but not how much."
"Ugh, you tell me!"

Click to shrink...

I think if we keep this up, we might skip ais and machines and go right to Synths eventually. Not just artificial intelligences, but actual, organic intelligences in fully synthetic bodies.

this was a fun turn.

 

[HeroCooky]

Can you put up a tracker of our plan goals and how much we have completed? I'm having trouble following our progress.

Click to shrink...

I'll do so tomorrow.

I think if we keep this up, we might skip ais and machines and go right to Synths eventually. Not just artificial intelligences, but actual, organic intelligences in fully synthetic bodies.

this was a fun turn.

Click to shrink...

"Am I a joke to you?" Homo Lupus.

Joke aside, that will take several decades, far beyond the soft cut-off point of 1990.

 

[Cyrus2]

So the US just invaded the Middle Americas to prop up their puppet governments. There's going to be so much resentment for years from this, I wouldn't be surprised if guerrilla fighting sprung up to keep them occupied.