Yes, that sounds super neat, and useful for everything from aircrafts' wings to ships, submarines, etc.
Also, it would give Guang crafts even-more-unique aesthetics <3
I guess the action subplan would be something like As Nature Intended:
develop Computational Fluid Dynamics
it's a lot of work to (re)build models to test every slight variation, but we have (super)computers
develop Rapid Prototyping and fluid dynamic experimental facilities
wind and water tunnels, a wave pool, etc.
develop biomimetic aero- and hydrodynamic propellers, wings, etc.
Thanks for your answer
I can be wrong but i think we already have the two first (or at least a begining of them) from the boat and submarine making.
Qm do you confirm that we would need those to make the super propelers/wings/fan/etc ?
That was my assumption: Guang scientists and engineers might have had some ad hoc testbeds and tools, but we'd need to build up dedicated facilities and a sustained research effort; probably worth it though, and not just for the aesthetics and memes. 😈
TIL, apparently the first paper about CFD in 3D models was from 1968 (from people at Douglas Aircrafts) and it was used at the time for ship hulls and aircraft fuselage; in 1982, the "VSAERO" paper had just been published... which is the most widely-used "panel method" CFD program to this day.
Given that the main limitation of CFD at the time was the computers' speed, and that we are a decade ahead of time on that front, we might be able to get ahead of everyone else with relatively-little effort... and it would make us better at most of our engineering projects:
better turbines in jet engines, geothermal and nuclear power plants, etc.
optimizing the aerodynamics of our trains, aircrafts, ships, etc.
ditto for the hydrodynamics of the watercrafts
everything about rockets: from the shape of fairings and nozzles, to simulating combustion chambers (I heard our Chosen One has combustion instability issues?) etc.
oceanic fluid flows... like in the Gyre Deep Water Fertilization and Sea-Forest megaprojects
it leads us to weather forecasting... which TIL was also pretty well-developed at the time:
many countries had practical numerical forecasting in routine use by the late 50s, and by "now" (early 80s) models even accounted for the interactions of soil and vegetation with the air 🤯
P.S.: Between that and our push to cyber(ize) everything, that might lead us to generative design, which would be pretty cool. That would help us improve not only ships/planes/etc. but also CPUs (and VLSI circuits in general) as soon as someone realises the approach is applicable to circuit design, software (I focused on that topic, right before and early during my PhDon't) etc.
Also, updated the HKDF proposal with a reference implementation, property-based tests, etc.
I've apparently been procrastinating away all the... general awfulness of my current situation 😅
P.P.S.: Updated it, replaced mentions of SHA-1 to 3 hash function families with the less-anachronistic MD4.
(Can't pick something older, I needed it to still be supported by Python for testability)
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That was my assumption: Guang scientists and engineers might have had some ad hoc testbeds and tools, but we'd need to build up dedicated facilities and a sustained research effort; probably worth it though, and not just for the aesthetics and memes. 😈
Thank you both so much for the wonderful and wonderfully-detailed plans and making sure Guangchou gets railed
I wrote a heckton of notes on aspects I'd like to discuss, while off travelling, on both the railway aspects and (I suspect) even more about the urbanism and land use aspects.
However it's late, and more importantly I'm running on one sleepless night followed by a 4h one, so I'll sleep on it so I can do your proposals justice <3
Yes, more-efficient propellers and windmills would make windmill ships even more effective.
It's not just our fuel consumption either, I suspect those might become a hot commodity to export (or tech to transfer)
~60% of shipping costs on goods are... the actual ship-ing ;
I can't find hard numbers on that, but I'd guessthe main cost of marine shipping is oil:
crew sizes are pretty small, compared to the volume carried by container ships ;
the ship's TCO is amortized over a looooong time.
The 70s just got done with their second major oil crisis ('79)... and we can still look forwards to the 90s oil shock and the 2000s' 5y-long rise in oil prices
... assuming we don't butterfly-sledgehammer those: Iraq might not invade Kuweit, given that CyPac's help might help get them out of the debt the war with Iran saddled them with; the 2000s crisis does not seem to have a single main apparent cause, so it's likely still on.
Either that or the Guang merchant navy somehow becomes a leading maritime shipping provider, but that sounds too capitalistic a plan.
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Good news: I wrote the thing while travelling today.
Bad news: I didn't realise SCL development was happening on the classified/controlled network where things are more formal... which is not at all what happened in the HKDF conversations I wrote up. 😇
It's fine, I have some ideas how to fit both the technical work, and the character exposition I want to see... though it means I really will have to pick names for more of the people involved, and I have no idea how to. 😅
Bad news: I didn't realise SCL development was happening on the classified/controlled network where things are more formal... which is not at all what happened in the HKDF conversations I wrote up. 😇
Not a problem actually. Even if the atmosphere is more formal, I still expect there to be some levity. Also academics do get in fights so that remark in your specification draft would be reasonable. The official final specification wouldn't have it though.
Not a problem actually. Even if the atmosphere is more formal, I still expect there to be some levity. Also academics do get in fights so that remark in your specification draft would be reasonable. The official final specification wouldn't have it though.
Yeah, I meant more that the conversation(s) I drafted up is a lot less formal than that.
It's fine though, some of it is just me going with the wrong vide, and some of it is characted exposition I can rewrite as in-person interactions etc.
I guess I'll see how it comes out
... at least once I figure out character names I'm happy-enough with 😓
oops I deleted a post from the wrong thread >_____>'
Yeah, I meant more that the conversation(s) I drafted up is a lot less formal than that.
It's fine though, some of it is just me going with the wrong vide, and some of it is characted exposition I can rewrite as in-person interactions etc.
I guess I'll see how it comes out
... at least once I figure out character names I'm happy-enough with 😓
If it helping usually when I need Guang names for an omake I look for lists of names/first names from different countries around Guang and choose things that sound good together.
[x] [COMMIEWOOD] Animated Series: Cats in Mausengrad: The secret agents of the Cats International Agency have a collar tag to kill as they pursue the destabilization of Mausengrad through various harebrained schemes, but most commonly through their ridiculous attempts on the life of Comrade-Leader Maose. Wholly Tom-and-Jerry level shenanigans, very little tension, with the cats being portrayed as a mixture of menacing as they plot and pitiable as they get lambasted for their comical failure by their intransigent superiors, General Smilodon and Senator McCarthy. Any resemblance to actual attempts on the life of Wei Jungmin or Fidel Castro is coincidental, honest.
[X] Plan: It's (Not) The End Of The World (Yet)
-[X] Infrastructure
--[X] Durable Goods Libraries (-2 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion) (Bonus: +1 PttF)
-[X] Light Industry
--[X] Democratically Selected Consumer Goods Factory Complex (Kitchenware) (+2 Reputation) (Bonus: +1 PttF)
--[X] Democratically Selected Consumer Goods Factory Complex (Adult Entertainment) (+2 Reputation) (Bonus: +1 PttF)
-[X] Heavy Industry
--[X] Construct Geothermal Power Plants (Helpful) (Bonus: +1 PttF + 2 Omake = 3)
--[X] Construct Geothermal Power Plants (Helpful) (Bonus: +1 PttF + 2 Omake = 3)
-[X] Social
--[X] Counterintelligence Sweep (-5 Reputation, -5 People's Opinion) (Sub Vote) (Bonus: +1 PttF)
-[X] Political
--[X] Brace for The Worst (Mega-project - 3/3) (??? Reputation) (Bonus: +1 PttF)
-[X] CyPac
--[X] IMF Bailout - Madagascar, Sudan, Yugoslavia (Bailout) (+1 Reputation)
--[X] A Red Rising (+11 Reputation) (+4 People's Opinion) (+10% CyPac Cohesion)
-[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
--[X] Personal Action: The children have asked you for one or more pet animals, and you and your loved one agree with the idea, adopt one or more pets and spend time as a family teaching your child to take care of them, played with them and trained them if possible.
---[X] Adopt the 3G chicken
--[X] Personal Action: From time to time, you have explanations, a conversation, and received projects and reports from your scientific, medical, and other departments of which you barely understood what they were saying. Take advantage of the new options for adult education to study so you can at least follow along.
--[X] Lover Action: Time at the shooting range, your love likes to use heavy military equipment and things that go bang and boom, learned to use them and spent time together doing that.
[COMMIEWOOD] Animated Series: Cats in Mausengrad: The secret agents of the Cats International Agency have a collar tag to kill as they pursue the destabilization of Mausengrad through various harebrained schemes, but most commonly through their ridiculous attempts on the life of Comrade-Leader Maose. Wholly Tom-and-Jerry level shenanigans, very little tension, with the cats being portrayed as a mixture of menacing as they plot and pitiable as they get lambasted for their comical failure by their intransigent superiors, General Smilodon and Senator McCarthy. Any resemblance to actual attempts on the life of Wei Jungmin or Fidel Castro is coincidental, honest. "The first episode of Cats in Mausegrad had been released a week before that fateful day that saw over a million people vanish in nuclear fire and millions more suffer and die from the fallout, literal and metaphorical, that resulted due to the bombings. As such, it has to deal with a legacy of both being under the shadow of nuclear annihilation and that of fond nostalgia as thousands of children within Guangchou, and soon within their Asian sphere of media influence, were sat in front of the TV where able to distract them from the reality that happened, especially within the refugee centers within China itself, where thousands of orphans, injured and hale alike, needed to be distracted as social workers tried to figure out how to proceed from there. It is little wonder then that those who grew up with the story often remember, falsely, episodes that dealt with nuclear themes or used nuclear weaponry as a plot point."
-Introduction to "False Memories - From Cause To Cell"
The cities and towns of Ireland had long since been beds of unrest and people fighting against the powers that be for one reason or another. However, most were united in that one uniting goal that bound those of Irish blood tighter than outsiders could believe: to ride themselves of the grasp of the genocidal English overlords, those who dared to scoff and tell them to work harder as they took the bread and water from the mouths of their children and laughed as the corpses of those starved to dead lay in the streets. Time had not lessened that hate brought in those days, nor had the blood spilled on their orders since then been poisoned any less by hate and anger, simmering and boiling with the ebb and flow of atrocities and crimes done upon the Irish by that hated enemy.
The deals forced upon their people in the waning days of 1983 to deal with all the problems assailing them by the EU, spearheaded by the hated English, did nothing to settle the crimson waters and, indeed, brought with it only promises of ill tidings where the halls of Westminster itself would be painted in a sanguine deluge...
[USA] [Re-organize NATO into NHTO]
(87)
"Let it be known that, with the changes in the current situation of World Politics, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has to change, adapt, and overcome the threats and challenges set before the Free World and those who hold high the banner of Freedom, Democracy, and Liberty for All. No longer can we think there is but one enemy to those who yearn to be free in a world where there shall be no boot upon their neck and gun behind their head. We must realize that only as a bastion of freedom and cooperation by the world's people shall we endure, and likewise, so shall NATO. Not merely as an organization directed East but directed to shield all who gather under its banner willingly and with open hands. Therefore, the North Hemisphere Treaty Organization shall not deny any cry for freedom from those under tyranny and slavery and shall not deny refuge to all who seek a day when they shall return to their homes free from fear and terror."
-Closing statement of the 1983 Congress of NATO.
[The World] [React To The Nukes]
(100)
The explosions of four nuclear bombs reverberated around the world like bells struck by deaf executioners, the sounds racing out from the cities they had murdered to be forever etched into the minds of those who heard them like gongs struck by demons wicked and cruel. And like four bells struck with little warning, those who listened to their sounds, be it by radiation or diplomats screaming about missing nuclear weaponry, the world reacted in ways that none could adequately describe when nuclear panic was once more at the forefront of the human races, even if one was far too young to sufficiently understand the dread its elder harbored.
Schools were closed by necessity in America as hundreds of thousands took their children from those cradles of learning or refused to let them go. At the same time, millions more brought the economy to a screeching halt when they refused to work in fear of dying away from family and perceived safety. In the USSR, not even the harshest censors were able to stop the biblical flood of pictures and videos from being played and seen by millions more, the sight and sounds of dying children accompanied by men, women, and more of all ages begging for the mercy of death as blisters and coal-like flesh stood side by side on mangled bones no longer able to hold meat well-done on bones charred and cracked alike by forces beyond human comprehension. Within those places farther from the information networks of humanity, the news reached still, and they reached people deeper yet, for the imagination is a beast that thrived within the dark and the murky waters of a people that were barely educated in the weapons brought to bear against the innocent in faraway lands.
But in all the world, in all the people who heard and saw the pictures and videos of the victims of this heinous crime, there was one thing that rang true in soul and mind alike: the fear that it could happen once more and that it could happen to them.
And a voice was joined by ten more, a hundred marching by thousands, until the cities of the leaders of the world were filled with throngs of humanity united in fear and righteous anger, and all clamored to be heard, to have that fate brought upon 1.4 million innocents not be repeated upon them and theirs. But while they marched, the world's leaders looked at each other and saw not what needed to be done but what needed to have happened.
The USSR sought out the USA, as it did likewise, with all the world's nuclear powers joining haltingly like a clockwork puppet not made quite right.
On the 7th of February of 1984, a treaty would be signed by all who held within their arsenals nuclear weaponry, an agreement made upon a mountain of corpses and the abject terror that the resultant mass graves employed liberally brought. Some would say it went too far, others not far enough, but it was a step for most. A step into a future where the scenes of Lanzhou would not haunt their streets.
A step created by a treaty that bound all nations to never produce another nuclear weapon, for the good of all humankinds.
[Treaty of '84 - Nuclear Weapon Production will incur [Extreme] Political and Economical Penalties.]
-[X] Infrastructure
--[X] Durable Goods Libraries (-2 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion) (Bonus: +1 PttF)
(11 + 1 = 12 - Boosted)
With the advent of ever more sophisticated automation technologies and the growing material abundance that the workers of Guangchou have access to thanks to their labors, the need for yet more means by which those very same fruits can be distributed is required and thought up. One of those is the Durable Good Library, a means by which a selection of households, typically situated within an LSEEH's Service And Distribution Level, can gain access to goods that, while needed, are not typically required in everyday life, such as vacuums or a variety of tools. Within them, residents can "borrow" communally owned goods for use before returning them, all noted down in a computer where one notes name, date, time, and materials before returning them while also noting such down again. A system that requires trust from all involved but also one bolstered by the equipment within, as such has been specifically marked to be easy to track should thieves try to take advantage of the trust extended to them by the residents and workers of Guangchou.
-[X] Light Industry
--[X] Democratically Selected Consumer Goods Factory Complex (Kitchenware) (+3 Reputation) (Bonus: +1 PttF)
(11 + 1 = 12 - Boosted)
There were certain things that you could not plan for, and some were there would always be a lack or surplus of things, things that could not be adequately supplied in economies that were driven by spreadsheets and human minds intending to bend efficiency before practicality, or chain profit into line before logistics.
For Guangchou, such things would not need a Campaign of a Thousand Little Things, at least for now, as the workers and the people managed to overcome paperwork and bureaucratic inertia as they built factory after factory dedicated to supplying the things that all needed, in great quantity and small, without being forced to wait for months for basic necessities.
A side effect of such a drive was the re-invigoratization of the restaurant and food industries with a glut of cheaper, yet qualitatively superior, wares they needed for everyday operations. One not felt quickly, but felt in time and tasted with fervor.
--[X] Democratically Selected Consumer Goods Factory Complex (Adult Entertainment) (+3 Reputation) (+5 People's Opinion) (Bonus: +1 PttF)
(12 + 1 = 13 - Minor Breakthrough)
"You know, I kinda don't know if I should be proud or ashamed that I managed to create a medical plastics breakthrough by creating new dildos."
"Are they the boring kind?"
"Lupi-Fantasy."
"Nice. And be proud. I think they'll find it hilarious."
"Thanks."
"No problem. ...but..."
"Yes, you can have one, pervert."
"Says the dildo designer!"
-[X] Heavy Industry
--[X] Construct Geothermal Power Plants (Helpful) (Bonus: +1 PttF + 2 Omake = 3)
(11 + 3 = 14 - Minor Breakthrough) --[X] Construct Geothermal Power Plants (Helpful) (Bonus: +1 PttF + 2 Omake = 3)
(2 + 3 = 5 - Optimal)
"With the initiative to generate more energy came several problems and solutions, thanks to unique challenges that the assigned Working Groups faced, both in local conditions and the sudden appearance of the Ministry of EEPUCGNSEHRPATWPWHELTGCW breathing down their necks. Nonetheless, the workers persevered and were able to construct the geothermal power plants on time, within budget, and the allocated materials without requiring more, while also spearheading several changes in layout, construction, and energy production that led to an increase of nearly 7.4% more energy per hour."
-The History Of Collective Industry And Energy
-[X] Social
--[X] Counterintelligence Sweep (-5 Reputation, -5 People's Opinion) (Bonus: +1 PttF)
(9 + 1 = 10 - Optimal)
"We have been able to apprehend several foreign teams trying to conduct industrial espionage, in addition to the capture of a ring of would-be assassins of the family of the Great Leader. Thankfully, they have not yet been able to try, but we have nonetheless redirected more resources to uncover any possible accomplices or escaped perpetrators. The identities of those we have arrested are mostly from Japan, South Korea, India, and Australia, with several Americans within the mix."
-Intelligence Report
-[X] Political
--[X] Brace for The Worst (Mega-project - 3/3) (Bonus: +1 PttF)
(4 + 2 + 2 +3 = 11 / 3 = 3,6 = 4 - Subpar)
"Look into the holes left behind by eyes burned out in the heads of children by the flash of nuclear detonations and tell me that we require them to be saved. Look at the rows and rows and rows and rows and rows And Rows AND ROWS OF CORPSES Left Behind by millions dead and dying in cities that were guilty of no crime but to exist behind a line drawn by weapons and soldiers. Look at all who suffer, behold this cornucopia of misery and torture left behind by hatred and fanatics with no heart beating within their chest, and look at all that these weapons have brought upon innocents.
And tell me we need them.
To be safe."
[Horrors of Nuclear War - Creation of Nuclear Weaponry will incur [Extreme] Public Opinion and Reputation Penalties.]
--[X] Ministry of the Ecology and Environmental Protection for the Upkeep and Conservation of Guangchou's Natural Spaces, Ecosystem, Habitats and the Reduction of Pollution of All Types Wherever Practicable for the Worker's Health and Enjoyment and the Long-Term Good of the Country and the World.
(2 + 16 + 2 = 20 - Major Breakthrough)
"Only when the last bird is eaten, the last drop of water poisoned, and that last breath filled with nothing more than smog, only once there is no world left alive to keep your hearts beating, only then will you understand that you cannot eat the coins you so lust after and the papers you chain yourself to. A wisdom once said to the American settlers taking everything and giving nothing, and a wisdom now repeated within these halls, for we have been given more than a mere mission of base platitudes and baser appeasement to sentiments, but one to fight for the very world we seek to give our children. The signs are there; the science of all sides screams it from the towers and the valleys, and none can say that they are blind to what is to come. The climate is being changed by humanity, and we are at the place where the best time to act is now so that our grand-children need not stand in fifty years in winters without snow and summers baking the beds of lakes once believed to be endless and pump the air we breathe full of chemicals to gain themselves decades by which they may avoid the death of our home. It is said that the best time to plant a tree was two decades ago. We are in that fateful year and have been charged to plant a forest instead. I intend to do so, for I will give my children a world of beauty and not one where the news will speak of another disaster of the century for the second time in that week alone. History as our witness, this ministry shall not allow the world to become barren and dead."
-Opening speech of Xi Hi Majing, Acting Director of the EEPUCGNSEHRPATWPWHELTGCW.
-[X] CyPac
--[X] IMF Bailout - Madagascar, Sudan, Yugoslavia (Bailout) (+2 Reputation) (+10% Cohesion)
(12 - Boosted) "A little bit of coin, a little bit of shine,
And you shall see your glitter was mine,
A little bit of lies, a little bit of smiles,
And you shall see your side belonged to mine."
-The Glitter Shine, #1 Song in Guangchou for nine months after the Great Debt Restructuring of 1983.
"The secret to debt is not how much you owe, but to whom you owe said money. A few bills to a Western Bank will leave you paying for decades until your bones have no marrow to pay the fees heaped upon you. But a fortune owed to friends standing side by side, who know you will pay what they are owed? They do not take more for years not paid; they only want the worth and trust given returned in full, and with that, problems disappear one check by one."
-Overheard in the internal debt negotiations of CyPac regarding the bailout of Madagascar, Sudan, and Yugoslavia.
--[X] A Red Rising (+11 Reputation) (+4 People's Opinion) (+10% CyPac Cohesion)
(9 - Optimal)
"And who the fuck are you supposed to be?" One of the lieutenants of the Christ The Carpenter Revolutionary Church militants said, looking at the woman smoking a cigar at the edge of the pier while staring at the large ship docked with containers being unloaded without anyone knowing where she came from.
"I," she said turning around with a grin on her face as she took her cigar from her mouth and gestured to the men in front of her, "am you new best friend, comrade."
-Trailer for Call of Duty - Red Amazon (2008)
-[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
--[X] Personal Action: The children have asked you for one or more pet animals, and you and your loved one agree with the idea, adopt one or more pets and spend time as a family teaching your child to take care of them, played with them and trained them if possible.
---[X] Adopt the 3G chicken
(58) Jungmin stared at the 3G chicken with distrust, black bars around his eyes.
The 3G chicken stared back in a baw-ked challenge, black bars around its eyes appearing, too.
"You are already defeated," Jungmin said, taking a martial arts pose, beckoning his arch-enemy to come at him.
"Bawk Bawk!" The 3G chicken replied contemptuously, approaching without fear and with nothing but murder in its ey-
"Daaad!" Ma Li complained, interrupting her father's story, as she held the 3G chicken in her arms. "Arthur would never do that! You just poked her, and she poked back!"
"Rightfully so," Mai said, lightly cuffing her husband upside the head before kissing him on said head. "What are you even doing bothering that poor chicken? I thought you were too busy for such antics," she continued, shaking her head.
"I can embellish my injuries," the dictator of a nation muttered, very much not pouting as he tried not to pick at the slight scratches on his arm that had scabbed over after being cleaned. His present family only chuckled, choosing to talk about other things. But when Ma Li left, Arthur looked back at him.
And black bars appeared around his eyes as the camera zoomed in. "bawk bawk," she whispered, promising a rematch.
"Bawk bawk," Jungmin returned, balefully determined to defend his family's honor.
--[X] Personal Action: From time to time, you have explanations, a conversation, and received projects and reports from your scientific, medical, and other departments of which you barely understood what they were saying. Take advantage of the new options for adult education to study so you can at least follow along.
(50)
"But I have people for thaaaaaat!" Jungmin whined, trying to walk that balance between pitiful and plain whiny, trying his best not to make his eyes pop out of their sockets and throw themselves from the nearest tower into the sea.
"And the same people are not there to dumb it down for you seven times," Mai replied, snorting as they dropped another stack of books onto their friend's desk, shaking their head before disappearing again.
"But we pay them for that exact thing!" Jungmin whimpered, staring at the books with a defeated expression.
(QM here: please stop taking my means to plaster over the fact that I don't understand 95% of the technical jargon being spouted by experts and people with technical passions. Please. They introduced letters to math, and I mentally checked out at that time in history; please stop torturing me. I beg of you!)
--[X] Lover Action: Time at the shooting range, your love likes to use heavy military equipment and things that go bang and boom, learned to use them and spent time together doing that.
(91)
Wei Mai stopped, a glassy look entering her eyes after her husband had finished talking, the epiphany he had given her ripping through her very soul like thunder and lightning. "I don't need to clean the weapons I use," she whispered like one did sacrilegious things, afraid that others would hear them, or like one who tasted words that held nothing less than world-changing epiphanies.
Then her eyes cleared, and she looked at her prey, hunger for destruction and other things within her eyes that heralded things that, in another time, would bring about new children. As it did, today it brought thousands of rounds fired downrange, and an animal-ear band placed upon the head of a man soon thrown onto a bed.
{-4 People's Opinion per Turn due to increased demands for QoL and Civilian Goods. Decreases by 2 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)}
+2 to any Artisinal Initiative
+2 to Mingxiang CyberSyn System 1.1.0
+2 to Weisoft
+2 to any Meat-Based Project
+6 to your first Civilian Rocket Project
+2 to Designing a Torpedo
Reputation - (69/100 Reputation - Appreciative Clapping) People's Opinion - (75/100 Reputation - A Happy People Are Eager To Build A Better Future.) 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. Horny memes due to your large family and the various scientific advancements made by specific sectors of Guang Industry.)
Light Industry - Adequate - (Slight Upwards Trend) Heavy Industry - Good - (Downwards Trend) Military Industry - Good - (Slight Upwards Trend) Agriculture - Good - (Downwards Trend)
[] (Optional: Write-In Commiewood Project) (No Plan)
[] Infrastructure
-[] 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 (Extremely Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Create New Housing (Helpful)
--[] Use Energy-Efficient Housing (Helpful)
--[] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Design New Housing Concept (Design)
--[] The Universal Building (-8 Reputation)
-[] Improve Medical Infrastructure (Helpful) (-3 Reputation)
-[] Build New Police Stations (Helpful)
-[] 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 (+4 People's Opinion)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Light Industry
-[] Increase Electrification (Helpful) (0/2 to Full Coverage) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Expand Your Train Network (Helpful)
-[] Construct Consumer Goods Factory Complex (What) (Helpful) (-1 Reputation)
--[] Democratically Elected (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] 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 Just in Time Logistics (-1 Reputation)
[] Implement Continuous Improvement Programs (-3 People's Opinion)
[] Develop Lights-Out Manufacturing (+2 Reputation)
[] Generic Appliance Factory Complex (+2 Reputation)
[] Generic Furniture Factory Complex (+2 Reputation)
[] Generic Household Hardware Factory Complex (+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 Complex (+1 People's Opinion)
[] Establish More Publishing Houses (+3 People's Opinion)
[] Build Breweries (+4 People's Opinion) (Harmful)
[] Bottled Drinks Factory Complex (+2 People's Opinion)
[] Food Dehydration Plant Complex (-1 Reputation)
[] Petrochemical Plant Complex (+3 Reputation)
[] Pharmaceuticals Plant Complex (+2 Reputation)
[] Chemical Commodities Plant Complex (+2 Reputation)
-[] Ammonia (Fertilizer)
[] Fine Chemicals Plant Complex (+1 Reputation)
-[] Agrochemicals (Pesticides)
[] Specialty Chemicals Plant Complex (+2 Reputation)
[] Inorganic Chemicals Plant Complex (+1 Reputation)
[] Polymer Plant Complex (+2 Reputation)
[] Consumer Chemical Plant Complex (-1 Reputation)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Heavy Industry (+2/+2 to Geothermal Power (Trade/Omake))
-[X] Cosmodrome (Mega-Project - 5/8 Actions) (Automatic - No Cost)
-[X] Native Space Industrial Complex (Mega-Project - 5/8 Actions) (Automatic - No Cost)
-[] Cyberdize Heavy Industry Sector (Mega-Project - 2/12 Actions)
--[] Twin Hammer Heavy Industry Expansion
(Heavy Industry Cyberization projects complete over time on their own due to increased interest from workers and political pressure from the Military who want to be able to afford to build cool boats)
-[] Automate Factory/Facility/Project (What) (Various Reputation Gains)
-[] Guangchou Semiconductor Manufacturing Cooperative (Mega-Project - 0/6 Actions) (-6 Reputation)
(With this project, we will be able to build...everything relating to electronics not merely cheaper but also in far less time than before!)
-[] Build A Superconductor Foundry (Mega-Project - 0/4 Actions) (-1 Reputation)
(Must build Superconductor Foundry before the Nuclear Attack Submarine Type 9 can be finished.)
-[] Construct Housing Factory Complex - (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 Complex
-[] Construct A Steel Foundry Complex (Harmful) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Construct A Heavy Machinery Plant Complex (Harmful) (+3 Reputation)
-[] Build Rolling Stock And Rail Factory Complex (Harmful) (+1 Reputation) (Reduced Actions For The Dragon Rail)
-[] Construct Power Plants (Helpful)
-[] Construct Geothermal Power Plants (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 Complex (+4 Reputation)
-[] Crack the 600 nm Process (Mega Project - 0/6 Actions) (-6 Reputation) (-2 People's Opinion)
-[] Expand Your Mines (Harmful)
-[] Construct Additional Harbors (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.)
-[] The Dragon Rail (Mega-project - 0/21) (Helpful)
(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 the breadth and width of all available industrial might!)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Agri-And Aquaculture
-[] 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 Complex (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Build a Herbicide & Pesticide Plant Complex (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Increase Farming Space (Helpful) (-3 Reputation)
-[] Increase Herd Space (Helpful) (-4 Reputation)
-[] Assemble A Fishing Fleet
-[] Construct A Cannery Factory Complex
-[] Construct A Pre-Made Food Factory Complex (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 - 0/8 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 Farm Complexes (-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 Complex (-2 Reputation) (Helpful)
(An ancient recipe from the Americas, made of powdered meat and fat that can be stored for years in a sealed container. Maintaining a stockpile will be full insurance against a poor harvest.)
-[] Seed Treatment Factory Complex (-2 Reputation)
(Seeds can be treated with various compounds to increase their germination chances and resistance to sickness.)
[] Expand Crop Breeding Programs (+1 Reputation) (Helpful)
[] Fund Agricultural Veterinary Care (-3 Reputation)
[] Develop Fish Ranching (-1 Reputation)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Military
-[] 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
-[] Design Two Iron Tiger Systems/A New Iron Tiger (Describe) (+5 Reputation)
--[] The Fateful Seal IT (Iron Tiger Revolver)
(The FS-IT is a Fateful Seal redesigned for iron tiger use, developed to use 130x800mmR shells. The FS-IT, just like the FS, uses a 6-or-7-round cylinder and can shoot HE, SAP, and AP shells.)
-[] Design A Native Tank (Describe) (+2 Reputation)
--[] The Credit Where It's Due (Light Scout Tank)
(Taking inspiration from the FT-17 (shape) and T-55A (armor and suspension), the CWID is the first native LST produced in Guangchou. Weighing 28 tons, this LST is armed with a light cannon, four missiles, a coaxial machine gun, and a heavy machine gun mounted on a pintle on the turret top; it is crewed by four crew and possesses a top speed of 48km/h. Though, it is notably light on the armor for a tank.)
-[] Design A Native Plane (Describe) (+3 Reputation)
--[] MiS-27 (Multi-Role Jet)
(The MiS-27 is a Multi-Role jet aircraft, its shape inspired by the MiG-21, with the J37 providing its radical delta wing configuration. Flown by one pilot and armed with 2 Modified 25mm M/71 autocannons, this Jet also sports eight modular hardpoints to add rockets, bombs, fuel tanks, and supplies as needed or wanted.)
-[] Design A Native Vehicle (Describe) (+2 Reputation)
--[] The Police Carrier (Light Assault APC)
(The PC is a simple armored personnel carrier taking inspiration from the BTR-152 (appearance/shape), the BTR-60 (turret), and the M3 half-track (tracks). At 20 tons with a top speed of 75 km/h on-road and 50 km/h off-road, this vehicle can transport its four crew and six passengers where needed. With only light armor protecting its passengers, it utilizes an imported Soviet 2A28 Grom, eight missiles, and a coaxial machine gun for offensive operations.)
--[] The BTR-71 (Light Amphibious APC)
(The BTR-71 has the general shape and appearance of the BTR-60 but has just about nothing in common. Weighing 20 tons, this LST is armed with a light cannon, four missiles, a coaxial machine gun, and a hull machine gun. It is crewed by four crew with a place for eight additional passengers and possesses a top speed of 80 km/h on-road and 12 km/h in water.)
-[] Design A Native Ship (Describe) (+3 Reputation)
--[] The Gunagch (Destroyer Escort)
(Weighing at nearly 3kt and 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.)
--[] Develop a Submarine (+3 Reputation)
---[] (Write-In)
-[] Design A Native Artillery/AA/AT Piece (Describe) (+1 Reputation)
--[] The BS-4 (Crewed Anti-Tank)
(The BS-4 is a field and anti-tank gun, taking inspiration from the BS-3. Its primary use is for coastal defense forces, with a six-meter barrel and an 11-meter overall length.)
--[] The Police Carrier Anti-Tank (Self-Propelled AT)
(The PC is a simple armored personnel carrier taking inspiration from the BTR-152 (appearance/shape), the BTR-60 (turret), and the M3 half-track (tracks). At 20 tons with a top speed of 75 km/h on-road and 50 km/h off-road, this vehicle can transport its five crew where needed. With only light armor protecting its passengers, it utilizes an imported Soviet KPVT HMG, a rocket-deliver platform, and a coaxial machine gun for offensive operations. Additionally, the passenger compartment of the PC has been removed in favor of an AT Cannon with a gun shield.)
-[] Design A Native Sidearm (Describe) (Choose Any/All)
--[] Fateful Seal (Revolver)
(The Fateful Seal is designed as a top-break gas-seal revolver, using the Webley and the Nagant M1895 for inspiration. Research shows that as much as 26% of propellant gas escapes through the barrel and cylinder gap. Like more or less all gas-seal revolvers, the FS uses the cartridge case to seal the gap between the cylinder and the barrel. It uses a 13.2x55mmSR cartridge; the flat nose boattail bullet is 13.2 millimeters wide and 15 millimeters tall. It has a level on the right side, like the Webley revolver, and is used for the same purpose. Additionally, with the proposed 4.7-inch to 12-inch long barrels, the FS 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)
--[] 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 simplicity. With a fire rate of 570 rounds per minute, it chambers 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 the detachable muzzle ring, and the Browning Hi-Power 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 inspired by 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 Naval Rockets (Mega-Project - 0/2 Actions)
--[] Develop a Rocket Engine (+1 Reputation)
--[] Develop a Rocket (+2 Reputation)
--[] Develop an Orbital Satellite (Mega-Project - 0/3 Actions) (+8 Reputation)
-[] Import (What) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Construct A Submarine Yard (Submarine) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Construct A Torpedo Factory Complex
-[] Construct A Dedicated Naval Slipway (Ship)
-[] Construct Coastal Defences (+2 Reputation)
-[] Construct Interior Defences
-[] Construct An Airfield
-[] Construct Military Building/Factory Complex (What) (Harmful) (-3 People's Opinion)
--[] Construct Military Electronics Factory Complex (-4 Reputation)
-[] Naval Shipbuilding Expansion (Mega-Project - 0/9 Actions) (+4 Reputation)
(We need to train more people and expand our heavy shipbuilding industry; once taken, this project will be completed independently due to military interest and popular buy-in.
Must be completed to build Small Carriers.)
-[] 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
-[] Design the IT Gen 2.5 Using Lessons Of The Civil War (+5 Reputation)
-[] Raise An Iron Tiger Formation (Generation+Purpose)
--[] Write-In Chosen Purpose
-[] Intimidate Taiwan (+5 Reputation)
-[] Commit Exercises (+3 Reputation)
-[] Secure Trade Routes
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Social
-[] Expand Your Television Station (New Channel Name and 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 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 (-5 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)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Political
-[] Leader Pushed Developments
--[Y] Healthcare Reform (Mega-Project - 24/47 Actions) (Automatic +6 Actions per Turn)
--[] Reform Government Structure (Mega-Project - 0/10 Actions) (Triggers Sub-Vote) (-60 Reputation)
-[] 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 not only complete it but also expand the urban and agricultural spaces of Guangchou by using convenient sites along the way, further increasing its positive impact on the people of Guangchou. (Mega-Project 0/34 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)
--[] 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 could attract many 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
--[] Yoink Chinese Specialists and Intellgientsia (+3 Reputation)
--[] (Write-In) -[] Technologists
--[] Improve the Statistics Bureau (Focus) (-3 Reputation) (Political Consequences For Their Findings)
--[] Vocational Shock Effort (Helpful) (-4 People's Opinion)
--[] Search for geologic hydrogen sources in Guangchou & nearby (-5 Reputation)
--[] Research the production of hydrogen in nuclear reactors (-4 Reputation)
--[] Research hydrogen fuel cells, furnaces, and storage (-5 Reputation)
--[] Develop the use of optical fibers as acoustic sensors (-1 Reputation)
--[] (Write-In) -[] Militarists
--[] Create a dedicated branch of Military Engineers (+Allies)
--[] Sharpen Military Encryption Protocols (+2 Reputation)
--[] Create A Permanent Cryptography Research Working Group (+5 Reputation)
--[] Create A Permanent Working Group To Prope Our Encryption And Cybersecurity For Weaknesses (+3 Reputation)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Cybernetic Pact (1 Action Free)
-[] NK promised Supercomputer (Promised Next 5-Year-Plan)
-[] Mozambique - Promised Native Mingxiang (Within this Plan - Required for continued Membership)
-[] Military Intervention (Country) (+2 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)
-[] Freedom's Cry (+5 Reputation)
South Africa has long been under the yoke of imperialists, capitalists, tyrants, and the West. It is time that those who fight against their oppressive regime are armed and trained as befitting a people yearning to be free!
-[] A Red Rising Continued (+4 Reputation) (+2 People's Opinion)
-[] Inter-Alliance Culinary Exchange (+2 Reputation) (+2 People's Opinion)
-[] (Write-In)
[] Wei Jungming - (RP)
-[] Personal Action (Write-In two things he does within the next six months.)
-[] Lover Action (Write-In one thing Wei Jungmin and Wei Mai do together in the next six months.)
AN: That should be all. Please @ me if something is missing/incomplete.
Ministry of the Ecology and Environmental Protection for the Upkeep and Conservation of Guangchou's Natural Spaces, Ecosystem, Habitats and the Reduction of Pollution of All Types Wherever Practicable for the Worker's Health and Enjoyment and the Long-Term Good of the Country and the World.
Just saying, it's actually illegal in my country to make an organization with more than seven letters for an acronym. When you had to put those words into letters and official notifications, they tend to be an absolute bureaucratic nightmare.
That said, great to have an update! Thanks for the Christmas gift, HeroCooky!
When we threw out the elements of physics common sense that led to Mecha and the elements of biology common sense that got us Lupi, we also lost some elements of government common sense that prevents the abbreviations for a department being longer than the simply stated portfolio of that department.
When we threw out the elements of physics common sense that led to Mecha and the elements of biology common sense that got us Lupi, we also lost some elements of government common sense that prevents the abbreviations for a department being longer than the simply stated portfolio of that department.
When we threw out the elements of physics common sense that led to Mecha and the elements of biology common sense that got us Lupi, we also lost some elements of government common sense that prevents the abbreviations for a department being longer than the simply stated portfolio of that department.
To: Haneul ha joon secretary of Wei Jungmin, leader of The Most Glorious Democratic People's Republic of Guangchou, Light of All Nations, Defender of Humanity, and Paradise on Earth,Midori Tsubasa Secretary of Eun Hui Minister of Industrious Ministry of Industry for the Production of a Greater Future in the Name of the Future of Humanity (IMIPGFNFH),Linh Phuong, secretary of Dalisay Diwa, minister of the Extravagant Ministry of Culture and Entertainment for the Amusement of Young and Old as well as the Expansion and Preservation of the History and Heritage of Guangchou (EMCEAYOEPHHG).
From: Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn head of the project "construction of new factories for democratically selected consumer products"
Date: november 28, 1983
Re: progress of the project "creation of a range of products for the new factory of toys, accessories, costumes and other objects of a sexual nature"
Dear Mr. Haneul ha joon, Mx. Midori Tsubasa, and Ms. Linh Phuong,
I am writing to provide a progress report on the creation of a range of products meeting the appetite of the citizens of the Most Glorious Democratic People's Republic of Guangchou, Light of All Nations, Defender of Humanity, and Paradise on Earth for toys, accessories, outfits, gadgets and other objects sexual purpose in order to improve happiness levels and allow the citizen to provide their own entertainment. The focus of this report is the completion or abandonment of projects, milestones achieved, tasks planned for the next months, and current roadblocks.
List of completed or abandonned projects and milestones achieved:
Pumps: the new ultra compact pumps have passed the tests with flying colors, all leakage problems have been resolved, they should be capable of transporting all types of fluids that we or future users desire as long as they are more liquid than jello, their application to a variety of toys is in progress.
Likewise, industrial manufacturing has made it possible to economically make vibration motors that are much more efficient than those that were previously used,more powerful for less space while being less expensive. More extreme versions have been created, capable of vibrating the nails out of a board they should nevertheless still be almost silent and more importantly safe.
Lupi toy: finally it's done, no more harassment, no more constant request letters or rumors about "the management who keeps them all for themselves" a complete set of all the Lupi themed sex products you can think of from the dildo to the masturbator through the sex doll (inflatable, fabric, latex or other) life-size with a variety of models with variable characteristics and many others, fortunately succeeding in obtaining appropriate descriptions and studies of the reproductive systems Lupi was surprisingly less difficult than expected ,I wouldn't have been able to deal with the incessant requests much longer if that hadn't been the case.
Power: After a number of debates by the design teams on whether a internal rechargeable battery or disposable batteries should be favored in the design of different toys and non-fixed accessories using electricity the environment ministry intervened and declared that Internal rechargeable batteries would be preferable.
Task planned for next months:
The reconstruction of the silos: The planning for the reconstruction of the liquid storage silos as well as the cleaning of last week's accident are completed, it is planned to begin the actual reconstruction in four days with more spaced out rows of silos and more solid pillars, the injured from the "great cum wave" are still in the hospital but the doctors are optimistic about their prognosis, the cause of the incident has been formally identified by the investigators and as suspected in the preliminary inspection it was caused by a worker who became unwell and fainted at the wheel of a forklift before hitting the support pillar of silo number 3 of artificial sperm last week, the deep damage in the structure was not noticed during of the inspection and caused the collapse of the silo into the neighboring silos causing the collapse of the entire row of silos making them spilling their contents on the ground,the wave of said content caused the collapse of the neighboring row of type 7 lubricant silos, fortunately the resulting wave of the two fluids mixed headed towards the exit of the factory causing only a dozen injuries, the products spilled being based on water and various biodegradable components the pollution is minimal although due to the perfume added for more realism it is probable that this section of the plant and land will stink (or smell depending on your point of view) of sperm for several years.
Animalistic theme: We requested a research team made up of zoologist and veterinarian at Guangchou University three days ago and they should arrive in three more, once arrived they will help the design teams create various animal themed toys and accessories to make them more realistic, mainly dildos and masturbators but not only, it is notably anticipated a certain difficulty in the creation of realistic artificial sperm for all the different species.
Some botanists will also come forward to help with a similar series on a plant theme.
Leather and latex: The causes of the supply problems have been identified, it appears that the tannery and latex factory are simply not ready to meet the sudden increase in demand, requests to resolve the problem have been sent at the Ministry of Industry and a meeting is planned in a few weeks.
Current roadblocks:
Furniture: A large part of the furniture section will have to have its plans reworked, a communication problem saw the engineers think that steel would be the only material used in the furniture structures when in fact wood and plastic are planned as option in almost all cases and sometimes glass, stone, and cane with some other materials more rarely used, this led to several incidents during the test phase which saw equipment break, notably a Smotherboxes with glass side panels (to allow other participants to better enjoy the view) which broke causing multiple lacerations to the two testers (nothing permanent fortunately), a sex swing whose wooden pillars broke causing a fractured coccys and an X-cross whose attachments broke causing the cross to fall towards the front breaking the tester's nose.
Artistic and highly personalized creation: it was decided that although a certain level of personalization is compatible with the concept of a mass production factory as well as creation with fine detail there is a level beyond which this is no longer the case and it would becomes more efficient to create ateliers which would take orders to respond to requests detailed enough so that our machines cannot carry them out or so out of the ordinary that they cannot be satisfied with the vast ranges of product already available.
Moral and legal problem: The personalized sex doll creation service received very numerous requests which, after more careful inspection, blatantly corresponded to pre-existing people, when it comes to fictional characters this is not a problem but for those who imitate real people it becomes one, in fact these people have not given their agreement and would be entirely within their right to complain, the question on what to do with this situation was sent above as well as the one on what we should do regarding foreign orders.
Please let me know if you require any further information or clarification on these matters.
Yours sincerely,
Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn
Head of the project "construction of new factories for democratically selected consumer products" of the government of The Most Glorious Democratic People's Republic of Guangchou, Light of All Nations, Defender of Humanity, and Paradise on Earth
'Cause these ones can play with space mechs, mecha assaults, werewolfs, and communists taking over continents without having to pull bullshit out of their ass with a straight face.
'Cause these ones can play with space mechs, mecha assaults, werewolfs, and communists taking over continents without having to pull bullshit out of their ass with a straight face.
Nice.
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'Cause these ones can play with space mechs, mecha assaults, werewolfs, and communists taking over continents without having to pull bullshit out of their ass with a straight face.
Nice.
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Major Breakthrough here we are
edit:at least i think it should make it a major one ?