Turn 2 Triage (Month 2 After Exchange)
In just a month of taking power, the three great promises to the rest of the nation have been fulfilled; we have delivered victory, peace, and a new government. This does, however ignore the current outside world and the state of the country and broader world. The firestorms leftover from the exchange have mostly finished burning out, as most urban centers have been reduced to nearly nothing, with millions of refugees left to wander around the globe as disease and lack of clean water has continued to steadily reduce their numbers. Current attempts at military mobilization have at least provided shell formations to command masses of civilians into productive labor, enabling a near unlimited work pool, even if they have nearly nothing to work on. Communication has remained spotty despite efforts being undertaken to re-connect the major lines as much of the country couldn't be connected, though at least an improvised courier network has been formed to send orders into the countryside.
Once the diplomats manage to sort out the accords and the unification of the commonwealth of nations into the broader reconstruction authority, it should be possible to have a reach that extends to every corner of the globe. With the currently favorable terms provided to the enemy, these nations would only join as confederated dominions, preserving local government while submitting to centralizing direction and limited tax authority. Despite the disappointing peace terms, the war has finally been won, and the question on everyone's mind is how to quickly get the army demobilized and moved to preserve the rest of the population. In just a few months, the Reconstruction Authority will become the official government of the entire planet, and frankly, no one is ready for such a massive leap in power.
In terms of the docket of problems facing everyone still alive on the planet, two of the most pressing are the lack of shelter and water, as while improvised efforts by localities and local commands have attempted to fix the problem, they are already failing. Current stocks of purification equipment have been run bare, with much of the current emergency system of clean water production set to be steadily rendered non-functional over the next few months. Sewage has also managed to flood several urban zones, creating massive areas of disease and problematic conditions. The tent issue is another new challenge facing the population, as none of the preparations accounted for the need to house so much of the remaining population through a nuclear winter. These tents have also compounded with inadequate heating fuel, as many of the electric stations and gas wells previously used to keep the population warm have long been rendered useless. The only bright spot is that at the current level of bare sustenance rationing, it should be possible to maintain food supplies through the first winter and into the summer.
1 Free Action is Available Thanks to the Government Form
Governmental Actions: To call the current desperate and shambolic mess of ministers and hired personnel a government would be a massive stretch of the term. The central committee has been in a series of constant meetings, coming to a somber agreement on the ministers and ministries that would form the new government. Simultaneously, a number of measures to help stabilize the situation at the upper levels have been proposed to make sure that the very core of the governmental structure can function. Most of these are simple legal changes that can be approved in a single session, but a number are far broader and more controversial, changing the very nature of how the state interacts with the people. (2 Actions) (Modifier Source: Galchobhar Cu Ruih)
[]Total Nationalization: It has long come time to ensure that whatever possessions that the oligarchs have left can be obtained by the state and turned around to be used by the people. These acts would involve the forced confiscation of any significant industrial property owned by what can be defined as an oligarch by front commands, providing a massive degree of immediate centralization and direct control over what is left of the old industrial network. Few are trained in how to manage any of the equipment, but through using a few of the more acceptable managers along with the inevitable consolidation, it should be possible to restart some production later on.
[]Update the Legal Code: The old civilian legal code has become outdated the day the bombs fell, though it tragically cannot be updated as we are currently in a crisis. Instead of the previous soft policies, all cases can be tried through military procedures in military courts, reducing the number of excess judges needed and greatly increasing the throughput of criminal elements. Simultaneously with this, a massive number of laws can be altered to better represent what is needed in the current situation, providing a method for the state to legally reduce dissent.
[]Provide Army Commands with Legal Authority: The old officers of the regime that kept peace on the streets and suppressed the will of the people can be replaced with the army directly in that role. It should minimize the amount of personnel that needs to be demobilized, provide security, stabilize the country, and break any association with the old guard. Despite a general lack of training for handling problematic civilian issues, mid-ranking officers should be capable of keeping a handle of the situation far better than the current crop of police.
[]Start Mass Hiring Drives: The current desperate under-manning of the central government has only resulted in constant issues with passing essential legislation out into the nation and has greatly limited our response to the crisis. Instead of relying on our old base of supporters, a massive number of intellectuals and other survivors used to management positions can be hired into the government to try and stabilize the situation. Almost all personnel would fill lower positions, but it would be a start towards filling the gaping holes in the state apparatus. (Universal +3 to No Bureaucracy) (No Roll)
[]Update Conscription: While the civilians are still refugees, it would be the perfect time to pass a law opening up conscription for labor. During the way years, the significant influence of the old civilian government prevented the re-allocation of unproductive citizens, but now with control, we can simply draft and direct them to economically valuable tasks. This would also enable a far more fine-grained control over the labor force, allowing them to be moved across the nation cheaply and quickly.
[]Reform the Information Bureau: The collection of population statistics has been critical in establishing any form of organized state and is no less vital now that the old network has been destroyed. While the ability to fully profile each citizen has been lost to us, a basic old-style census can still be conducted to determine the living situation of the population and what exactly is in demand in what area. Of course, such an undertaking would take a better part of a few months, but it should be able to at least determine who needs what.
Orbital Command: Due to the failures and poor projections by the orbital command, some form of shakeup is needed to ensure that whatever officer in charge at least has a brain on his shoulders capable of making basic decisions. The previous report stated that there was no chance that the orbital command lasts long enough to sufficiently evacuate, much less receive re-supply, but with new leadership, a better report can be made. Such a report may necessitate the use of some triage measures but having some of the assets in orbit survive is far better of a situation than having none. (1/2/3 Actions) (Increased operational tempo increases maintenance and electronic supply use)
[]Reorganize Command Structures: The old orbital force command has always been commanded in orbit, but this doesn't mean that the old commanders should stay in command. As their loyalties are questionable, a number of more loyal personnel should be placed into critical command positions while the chance is there. These will likely involve the promotion of hundreds of less experienced spacers to cement control of the orbital forces, but such a shift is critical to prevent any form of sabotage.
[]Pull Back from Outer System Operations: Any operations past the gas giant and in its orbit may be incredibly interesting scientific pursuits, but there is no material to pursue them. Instead of taking a few months to accept this reality and needing to supply the outer stations with a stream of supplies and electronics, the operations can be evacuated in full over the course of the next year. This would cut out a massive number of supply shipments and minimize the number of operating hours on all of the equipment sent out, but such an operation will tie up a considerable portion of the orbital command. (Action lasts 2 years)
[]Modify Nuclear Thermals into an SSTO: Given that the war has already ended and that the current small fleet of warships has been rendered unnecessary, their large nuclear thermal drives can be removed and adapted into a new style of craft. Using a compact DUMBO nuclear thermal rocket along with some heat shielding, it should be possible to rig up something capable of re-entry and take off from the planet's surface. There would at most be three of these crafts that can be built with the orbital supply of fissile material, but even one should allow the orbitals to receive some fresh provisions.
Military Command: The war has been won with an acceptable peace, and now it is time to actually stabilize the situation with the army. While the massive quantity of soldiers and equipment has been needed for the last ten years, now it isn't. Demobilization must be pursued to some extent, but attempting a full demobilization of the army will flood several zones with a massive quantity of trained soldiers without work or food. Still, some demobilization should enable internal security forces to be filled with trained and trustworthy personnel. (4 Actions) (Victory) (Modifier Source: Morcant Singleir)
[][][]Demobilize: The war is over, and now it is time to actually reduce the size of the army at a steady pace. While it may be tempting to accelerate the demobilization as much as possible to free facilities and food supplies from army duty, a fast demobilization can destabilize the foreign and domestic situation. Instead of attempting to rush the demobilization, it can be done in phases as homefront commands are prepared to accommodate the additional personnel.
[]Re-Establish Home Front Control: All across the nation, several cities have fallen into anarchy as the majority of the population has steadily been displaced by the blasts. While local commands have tried their best to stabilize the situation and minimize the number of civilian casualties, they have so far been under-equipped to fully take charge and ensure that productive life can be resumed. Ration distribution needs more personnel, the police force is nonexistent, and every second we delay increases the chance that some regional or ideological movement can take root.
[]Detach Engineering Units: While the army is a useful structure for using highly trained engineering units, they will likely serve their tasks far better, commanding and organizing the masses of personnel that have recently been mobilized. This will dilute their experience base and cause far more mistakes, but it should at least ensure that someone on the ground level can direct a bunch of service workers into being productive. This should also enable the continuation of a number of emergency projects, as well directed unskilled labor should compensate for lost experienced workers at an acceptable rate.
[]Reorganize Command Structures: With the end of frontline combat and the need to manage a veritable horde of reserve commands, the old army structure of fronts has been rendered obsolete overnight. Instead of the previous front-level commands, military units will be used in conjunction with internal security ones to stabilize the situation and to provide a reliable base for distribution and logistics. Such a changeover would primarily focus on dispersing the fronts into more regional command centers, forming an improvised local government structure as some form of response is sorted out.
[]Minimize Homefront Consumption: The homefront has been used to a life of luxury and indolence even during the war, with easy access to luxury production and no end to consumer products. Now though, is a time of immense scarcity where every item that was once a consumer good is needed to serve a greater purpose in survival. Civilians will be asked to transfer their various electronic goods and still intact survival-relevant items into military control, ensuring that they can be used more optimally.
[]Secure Leftover Hardware: With the sudden shutdown of conventional war production along with the mass mobilization of conventional hardware, there is a massive potential for a number of weapons to be leaked to the civilian population. Consolidating the domestic armories and ensuring that the remaining components of the arms production lines have been recovered should ensure that only minimal leakage occurs. This may not be the most popular measure, but allowing anyone on our territory to engage in warlordism would be an immediate condition for disintegration on a state level.
[]Transfer Ships to the Merchant Marine: As a number of warships are still functional and capable of running any task, they can be made more useful by being transferred to the merchant marine. While not optimized for the task of either hauling or fishing, they can at least perform it acceptably, improving food retrieval and maintaining the peoples' access to various goods. This'll burn far more oil than getting a merchant marine functional, but with the current state of the economy, any additional transport capacity will be critical.
Ministries
Ministry of Infrastructure: The state of the nation's infrastructure is currently in crisis with most of the population unhoused with no water and no ability to access the supplies of the interior. Starvation has already started setting in on a local level due to lack of supplies while lack of water has already mostly finished its killing. Of course, the lack of potable water has driven thousands into drinking from non-potable sources, causing massive revivals of waterborne diseases. The various "color series" biological weapons have also continued sweeping through the population, leaving several reservoirs and necessitating strict sanitation measures that cannot be implemented. The only positive note is that some of the infrastructure of smaller harbors is still intact, allowing for some shipping to resume. (Choose 2 Actions) (Modifier Source: Gormagal O Riagain)
[X]Centralize Shipping Authority: Every private line needs to be consolidated into an effective overall state shipping system if some form of logistics can be resumed. Currency has been rendered mostly worthless, causing the old system of contracting to collapse and limiting the financial incentives for other shipping companies to do anything. Through a state-level consolidation, though, the profit incentive should disappear, and most of the old management can be utilized for the good of the country. Of course, this would necessitate a promise that the conglomerate would be split away after the crisis, but this would be done anyway to keep the shipping industry competitive.
[]Housing Reclamation Programs: While the larger nuked urban areas have mostly succumbed to firestorms, smaller areas have been left mostly intact. These mostly intact buildings can be quickly assessed and internally re-organized to house an optimal number of people, taking off some of the load from the tent cities in the countryside. These structures will be tight-packed and likely terrible places to live during the summer, but tight packing should minimize heating costs with the coming long winter. Simultaneously, this effort won't be able to house more than a portion of the displaced population, but it would be a good start.
[]Tent City Restoration: The massive tent city complexes have already become centers of disease and destitution, with millions of refugees stuck inside of them. While it would be impossible to do anything to greatly improve conditions in the short term, a formal look at the tent cities and a commission focused on how to minimize disease inside of them can be made and empowered. This may not fix the problem immediately and will steadily drain resources, but it should improve survival rates considerably.
[]Road Vehicle Consolidation: Before and during the war, there has always been a glut of vehicles on the roads performing a variety of tasks and transporting people to work. Now that much of the conventional logistic network has been reduced to ash, a new one must be constructed. To do this, a mass of civilian vehicles can be nationalized and modified to run in current conditions, modifying them for either the transportation of personnel or goods. Fuel will more rapidly become a shortage, but at least interior communities can have some supplies.
[][]Water Infrastructure Reclamation: The old water infrastructure has been hit and damaged to a state of near non-repair for larger urban centers. In smaller cities and towns, though, some of the pumping infrastructure has been left fully intact, if not prepared for the sheer demand that is set to come and with nearly zero replacement parts. Through a massive crash effort, this can be brought into function at a near maximal capacity, that when combined with strict water rationing and population relocations, should reframe the water issue into more of a question of maintenance and spare parts.
[]Emergency Water Purification: Waterborne diseases are rife amongst the refugee camps and even worse amongst those who are stuck surviving in the remnants of destroyed urban centers. We may not have the assets to help them fully with their needs, but a basic distribution of charcoal production techniques and designs for simple barrel purifiers and some chlorine should minimize the prevalence of waterborne disease to an acceptable level. The largest challenge of the effort will be the need for board distribution as coordination and logistics are still decidedly non-functional.
[]Harbor Clearing Initiatives: The vast harbors of the nation are filled with hulks with much of the port infrastructure damaged beyond repair. Some assets can be directed towards restarting some of the larger docks, enabling the massive cargo ships to be brought into use. If a full restart can occur, shipping should improve in fuel efficiency and far more bulk goods can be transported across the nation to ensure that supply lines can start being rebuilt.
[]Start Ministry Replenishment: The current ministry is a barely functional mess of incapable personnel and fresh hires, with just a few people that can minimally understand what they are doing. To make matters worse, the ministry is understaffed in the extreme, limiting what can be done with any competence. Any new hires may need extensive training and still be incredibly green, but having sufficient personnel should at least improve future functionality. (+5 to No Bureaucracy) (No Roll)
Ministry of Development: The current state of the consumer sector is one of utter deprivation, and it is unlikely to get any better any time soon. Currently, almost all of the very basics of the economy have been rendered as carbonized ash, with only some small-town businesses still left sufficiently intact for operations. Much of the nation's educational and medical infrastructure has also been damaged beyond use, with doctors stuck operating in a very limited capacity. In terms of initial priorities, while the consumer sector is important, much of the work will fall towards the reconstruction of both healthcare and education on a state-owned model. (Choose 2 Actions) (Modifier Source: Malmha Moire)
[X]Survey Medical Reserves: Both the military and a few of the larger civilian centers have built up a reserve of essential medications and doctors. While the latter has already depleted its supplies during the period immediately after the exchange, the military still has a good amount of medications remaining. These remaining doctors are set to be cataloged and re-organized into a system of medical care that can at least perform basic triage. As a side benefit, a semi-accurate of medical supply depletion can be created in order to determine what will fail first.
[]Assess the Private Sector: What is left of the few shops and businesses headquartered in small towns can be used to provide a buffer of materials and expertise for the lower layers of the economy. Of course, little can be done until it is known what we are working with. Through an intensive survey, it should be possible to determine how much of the sector survived the exchange and what we have to work with. This would mostly involve asking door to door and will have a massive number of errors, but little more can be done.
[]Survey the Medical Industry: From what can be initially determined, some of the medical industry has managed to survive the exchange, but exactly what components have stayed intact still must be determined. Through a full overview of the industry and how it's formatted, a plan towards recovering some basic production can be pushed through. This will almost certainly take most of a year if focused on and longer if not, but there is no other choice if we want to maintain the current pace of medical use.
[][]Form a Clinic System: With the mass relocation of the population and the current refugee crisis, a semi-permanent solution in the form of a clinic system can be implemented. It would take up much of the focus for the month and in practice would almost found an additional ministry, but a basic system of clinics should be able to minimize the impact of common ailments. Many of these would simply be constructed out of old still-standing structures, with small teams of doctors and teams of assistants turning them into improvised miniature hospitals.
[]Implement Card-System Triage Requirements: The fact that much of the medical profession is still tied to saving many of the patients is laudable but incredibly counter-productive. For every hour and medication spent on treating the critically ill, far more of the less wounded could be saved. To prevent such excess expenditures an official system of triage can be implemented across the country to transfer those too challenging to treat to an optimized regime of palliative care. The system would also be made to prioritize those with education and those more capable of labor, as they will be desperately needed in the struggle to come.
[]Establish Dedicated Quarantine Camps: With the unchecked spread of biological agents across the population, a dedicated effort to minimize exposure and reduce transmissions must be initiated. Through a number of large relocation efforts, the refugee camps can be specialized, with those who are infected being quarantined out of the system so that their impact can be minimized. There is no expectation that this would entirely cut out the spread, but through the quarantine of massive segments of the population, the overall survival percentages should improve greatly.
[]Start Ministry Replenishment: The current ministry is a barely functional mess of incapable personnel and fresh hires, with just a few people that can minimally understand what they are doing. To make matters worse, the ministry is understaffed in the extreme, limiting what can be done with any competence. Any new hires may need extensive training and still be incredibly green, but having sufficient personnel should at least improve future functionality. (+5 to No Bureaucracy) (No Roll)
Ministry of Agriculture: While the cities burned, the prompt effort to recover much of the stock of crops has at least provided us a buffer with which the situation may eventually be solved. The situation is still dire as enemy agricultural bioweapons have consistently reduced yields for the last few years, leading to a lack of body fat buildup for most of the population. While our own efforts were far more effective against the enemy, now we are left with dealing with both. Through the recovery of multiple sections of the ecology project along with the initiation of alternative food supplementation, it may be possible to stretch out current stocks for at least two years. A number that is likely to be further extended thanks to the projected casualty rates from anti-population biological agents. (Choose 2 Actions) (Modifier Source: Caolfionna Dumh)
[X]Re-Open the Ecology Program: It would be a shame to let the largest vault of genetic research go to waste without at least utilizing it to counter some of the problematic vectors that have blown back onto our own agricultural industry. Through the restoration of a number of facilities, the trained staff leftover from our own old programs can be turned towards the production of a number of more experimental retroviral agents for the mass vaccination of people and crops. Previously disallowed due to possible risks of mutation or mistakes in the engineering of genetic material, there is little choice left to us now.
[]Push Preservation Methods: As much of the retrieved food supply is starchy and unlikely to go bad quickly, for some items this is not a priority. In comparison, many of the conventional dry products and remaining stocks of vegetables need a far more thorough process of preservation. Despite the failure of much of the electric grid preventing many modern techniques, there are still older methods to keep food cool and preserved. Procedures for the preservation of dried food will be distributed across the nation in conjunction with a mass labor effort for the construction of underground cellars and a number of personal preservation efforts. This will not be a radical change as much of the harvest has already been preserved, but some additional initiatives to maintain vitamin supplies will not hurt.
[]Assess Alternative Calorie Sources: A number of promising nutritional projects have been either rejected as fads or too unappetizing to be issued out, primarily due to the current sufficiency of wartime rations. Despite needing to work with the relatively strange scientists who were in the business of selling flavorless but nutritionally complete drinks, their experiences in packaging, flavor, cost minimization, and ingredient sourcing can be utilized. The project itself would collect the production methods of many of these complete nutrition items and assess their base calorie sources for ease of replication with the current scientific base. Simultaneously, a number of more experimental initiatives will be started on the use of engineered organisms for such a task, but the scientific establishment isn't currently fully prepared to attempt the mass replication of theoretical papers, limiting that aspect of the program.
[]Organize the Fishing Fleets: Current fishing efforts have only steadily caught fewer and fewer fish as the war has gone on due to the progressive over-exploitation of the oceans due to the failure of land-based agriculture. Through an accelerated effort via what some of my colleagues would call dangerous over-exploitation, it should be possible to further increase the scale of current food reserves. Of course, such efforts must be done quickly before much of the fish population dies out and before desperate citizens fish it out of existence. Still, as long as the current rationing scheme holds mostly intact, an organized total effort for fishing can wait, some food will be lost, but the losses from an over-focus now would likely be greater.
[]Resume Basic Enrichment Methods: The industry to enrich foods so as to minimize mineral deficiencies has disappeared with the exchange. Given the need to avoid the combination of nutritional disorders and massive disease outbreaks, the restoration of the industry can only serve to help in the long run. It may not be an immediate priority due to the reserve of nutrients in the canned goods being hesitantly rationed out, but over time the resumption of this industry will be essential to avoid any massive nutritional issues. If some means of alternative food production is pursued that is even more nutritionally limited than current strains of starchy crops, then this effort will become even more essential to initiate and expand.
[]Preserve Genetic Libraries: Much of the modern medical industry and significant portions of other industries come from the use of engineered organisms in biological reaction vessels. Despite the survival of a number of university stocks and a few of the industrial strains, a dedicated initiative is needed now to preserve and catalog many of the surviving bacterial strains used. Current efforts may not lead to any production, but the preservation of these stocks will likely be able to be leveraged into the future production of some medications and foodstuffs.
[]Begin Agricultural Labor Instruction: There is no question that with the collapse of much of the chemical industrial complex along with the de-mechanization of agriculture, far more personnel will be needed to farm. To prepare for such an eventuality in the planting season, massive classes on the planting and maintenance of crops can be initiated to compensate for the utter lack of knowledge many of the urban workers have of farming. The sooner this can be initiated, the larger the cadre of farmers capable of basic fieldwork and crop management.
[]Start Ministry Replenishment: The current ministry is a barely functional mess of incapable personnel and fresh hires, with just a few people that can minimally understand what they are doing. To make matters worse, the ministry is understaffed in the extreme, limiting what can be done with any competence. Any new hires may need extensive training and still be incredibly green, but having sufficient personnel should at least improve future functionality. (+5 to No Bureaucracy) (No Roll)
Ministry of Industry: The factories that have supplied our nation are in shambles, with much of the mining supply chains in an even worse state. The chemical industry may as well not exist due to the concurrent firestorms hitting many of the petrochemical processing centers. The electronics industry has been reduced to nearly nothing due to the direct strikes on the cities containing the plants, though a few of the small-scale military fabs are still functional. Still, the situation is as bad as it initially seems, as pre-exchange survival projections for skilled workers have been proven to be pessimistic. Despite the inability of workers to compensate for a technological or material base, a sufficient number of unskilled laborers with direction can at least perform some basic tasks. An immediate priority will be the restoration of some elements of the petrochemical and extractive industries, as without them a logistical collapse along with a winter fuel collapse would severely limit the accessible population. (Choose 2 Actions) (Modifier Source: Fonnghal Lonach)
[X][]Chemical Industry Reinitiation Efforts: The still functional bits of the petrochemical complex must be re-started at nearly any cost, as without sufficient fuel oil, transport infrastructure failure will drive us into a quick death. The current initiative will focus on the restoration of oil rig crews along with the mass transfer of crews to contain the fires spreading across our oil fields while re-starting production. Only two major refining complexes have been rendered sufficiently intact to even begin basic refinement, but over six can be brought back to functionality through a massive salvaging effort; this will still likely force us to operate under a state of strict fuel rationing, but at least the crisis will be put off until the point one of the rushed fixes explodes.
[]Restart Coal Extraction: The fundamental issue of coal extraction is that many of the pit mines rely on a notable supply of both electricity and spare parts, limiting what can be done. While most of these can be fabricated, the need to supply personnel and power is going to be a long-term problem for the state no matter what is done. Currently, many of the electric devices can be compensated for through the use of a number of diesel generators and a far greater commitment of labor, but fundamentally the electric grid must be restarted to maintain sufficient extraction. Of course, this places the resumption of coal mining into a proverbial bird and egg situation, as one will be needed for the other.
[][]Grid Cold Start: Much of the electric grid has been brought offline through exchange emp effects, leading to a cascading failure from under-voltage. The plants that are made to operate through this have also been mostly destroyed, with their supply of fuel in an even worse shape. A number of our nuclear plants have also been cracked open by direct nuclear strikes, distributing their cores over the nearby landscape and creating zones of certain death. A few others, though have managed to shut down relatively cleanly thanks to the heroic efforts of their work crews. Along with the limited wind and solar power available, these plants can be cold-started, providing the power for the initiation of the remainder of the coal power grid, steadily resuming power distribution in a minimal form. Overall, grid initiation is likely to take a few months, but starting now should allow most civilians to have lights in their homes.
[]Begin Salvaging Efforts: Much of the current industry is currently cracked open and left rusting in the field instead of being salvaged. While much of the conventional heavy industry has been destroyed with little hope of recovery, it may be possible to at least consolidate it to form some limited production lines. Fortunately, some smaller industrial machinery at machine shops and at print shops has remained intact, enabling the resumption of the production of some metallic spare parts. Even with an ideal outcome, a full proper industrial line shouldn't be expected from the initiative, but a sufficient recovery for the later reconstruction of some specialized production should at least be possible.
[]Consolidate Scrap Materials: Through the use of some limited power tools and a few of the engineers from the army, it should be possible to begin salvaging critical industrial metals from the still remaining industrial infrastructure. Most of this will focus on tearing down the massive number of automobiles to salvage their computer systems, wiring, and aluminum, as currently, we cannot replicate any of the above. Even with the consolidation, it will still be challenging to set up sufficient minimal industry to restart the basic production of industrial metals, much less their full supply chains. Currently, though, this effort is not a very high priority, as current recycling methods should be able to compensate for some decay.
[]Formalize Apprenticeship Systems: Many of the currently available workers are currently under-trained and under-experienced as large portions of the experienced workforce have been killed. Instead of mobilizing them by dumping them into industry with zero preparation, teams of three can be assigned to experienced workers for on-site training, allowing them to become minimally capable workers over time. This should allow for the steady increase of industrial expertise and the preservation of much of the industrial base. Most of these improvised workers will need heavy retraining if we survive the crisis, but for now there is no other choice.
[]Worker-Factory Cohabitation: As much of the nation's housing has been demolished in the exchange, with transportation infrastructure faring even worse, a concerted effort is needed to get workers into whatever industry remains. Instead of spending scarce resources to build homes, workers can instead be transferred directly into factories to sleep in the still intact assembly halls and office spaces. These rooms will not be comfortable, and there will be constant grumbling, but the reduction in transportation and housing stress will be considerable as the economy spools up.
[]Start Ministry Replenishment: The current ministry is a barely functional mess of incapable personnel and fresh hires, with just a few people that can minimally understand what they are doing. To make matters worse, the ministry is understaffed in the extreme, limiting what can be done with any competence. Any new hires may need extensive training and still be incredibly green, but having sufficient personnel should at least improve future functionality. (+5 to No Bureaucracy) (No Roll)
Ministry of the Interior: With the collapse of central authority caused by the exchange and the current administration, banditry of all types will steadily re-emerge in the countryside. From there it will rapidly progress to the point of warlordism inhibiting the effectiveness of any response due to constant sabotage and regionalism. Instead of allowing such a current to take hold, security patrols can be initiated to project the appearance of order as the justice system is reconfigured for current realities. Eventually, military authority can be removed in favor of more conventional police units, but for now order is the highest priority. (Choose 2 Actions) (Modifier Source: Simidh Grum)
[X]Legal Authority for Local Commanders: The use of a central system to mete out justice has been rendered impractical thanks to the exchange vaporizing the capital. This has only been made worse by local judges being even more limited as the assets are not there to return to the old system of judges determining verdicts. Instead, local commanders and judges can be tasked with the determination of both guilt and sentencing, ensuring the prompt operation of the system. There will be a few accidental mistakes in sentencing, but a few innocents doing hard labor will do far less damage than a saboteur.
[]Restart Police Recruitment: The mass induction of past military and civilians with some basic training should allow for the steady reconstruction of the internal security force. Now that there is little central authority and conditions are only expected to get worse, the security forces must form a critical element of national policy. The new recruits will likely act like idiots and make a number of poor decisions, but putting more police into uniform should have a sufficient deterrent effect to stabilize the situation.
[][]Form a Security Department: As distasteful as the old secret service was, it is still an essential element of maintaining state policy. While the organization is still being formed, it will not be able to do much, but afterward it can become an essential tool in surgically removing dissent in both the governmental and popular spheres. Of course, such a course can cause a significant internal reaction, but it may be necessary to force through essential policy for the survival of the state.
[][]Restore the National ID System: The reliance on digital technology has resulted in a number of issues now that many of the capital's computer systems have been rendered nonfunctional. Still, the physical national ID cards are still in existence and can be produced at a relatively cheap rate, allowing them to become mandatory at all times for rudimentary population control. It would be seen as a continuation of old policies and would inherently miss a few people, but it is difficult to do better given our limited resources.
[]Reform Prison Labor Units: The use of prisoners as labor has steadily grown out of fashion due to the perception issues of the civilian population. Now though with every prisoner being a massive drain on resources, it has become essential to minimize the amount of food that is wasted on unproductive members of society. Instead of allowing prisoners the luxury of food in their cells, they can be placed into a conventional work rotation to earn their rations and compensate for mechanization with sheer numbers of personnel.
[]Start Trials: While many of the old Oligarchs have managed to survive the crisis in their estates, they have now been arrested and have been left to be judged by the people. Instead of quickly getting it over with, the provision of a full trial to each of them should be a symbol to the people and a show to demonstrate that we have broken away from the old regime. These trials would only lead to a correct verdict, but there is no need for the population to know about that.
[]Start Census Efforts: It's important to find out who is still alive and in what condition out of the entire population. Through the issuance of a simple survey along with some inspectors, it should be possible to get a very generalized picture of what the population wants, needs, and has. Such a status would only update once a year due to limitations in surveying and would likely be fairly inaccurate, but it should at least provide a minimal degree of overall information for crafting policy in other sectors.
[]Start Accounting Efforts: The temptation for the population to hoard their resources in order to ensure their families' survival in the lean times is an understandable but unfortunate response. To pre-empt such activities and utilize the current rich times, a full survey of what each household has can be initiated to ensure that a mostly accurate picture can be collected before the lean times come for most. This would mostly involve just determining food storage quantities for the farmers and various distribution points but can prove essential when hoarding starts.
[]Start Ministry Replenishment: The current ministry is a barely functional mess of incapable personnel and fresh hires, with just a few people that can minimally understand what they are doing. To make matters worse, the ministry is understaffed in the extreme, limiting what can be done with any competence. Any new hires may need extensive training and still be incredibly green, but having sufficient personnel should at least improve future functionality. (+5 to No Bureaucracy) (No Roll)
Ministry of Finance: The economy may as well not exist for all practical purposes with all of the banks in a panic, global finance dead, and many of the previously available tools rendered into ash. Our currency is currently worthless and as Moara transitioned to a purely digital currency a few years ago, most conventional minting infrastructure was demolished. Current rationing efforts have focused on providing food to people, but this is fairly inefficient and relies on a massive number of personnel. Instead, every effort for these few months should be focused on rationalizing the currency system and a dedicated push to get the state away from a few hundred million strong barter economy. (Choose 2 Actions) (Modifier Source: Paislig Faolain)
[X][]Issue Ration Backed Currency: For any form of state work or necessary development, a basic ration-backed currency can be created. As any of the coupons issued would be easy to trade for a state-provided basic meal, it should enable some basic exchange while also simplifying the logistics of distributing rations. Such efforts will instead change the model of ration distribution to one of handing out money at work-sites and then personnel trading it in for whatever rations they need. Due to the need to establish hard to counterfeit printing infrastructure, this will likely take a few months to roll out. It also must be accompanied by the formation of a few new distribution hubs, but it should greatly incentivize the population to get back to work.
[]Form a Mint: The issue with creating a currency is that there needs to be some form of a method for it to be quickly and easily printed. Through the formation of a national mint, it should be possible to consolidate enough equipment for the industrial production of currency. This mint will be able to produce sufficient currency for any reasonable currency consumption expectation, though the money supply will likely be fairly limited. As the currency will be food-backed, many of the reserve mechanisms used for a conventional economy are going to be too inciting of dissent if the worst comes, leaving us incredibly limited by the supply of stored food. Even with the limitation, though, a poorly distributed currency is leagues better than a barter system.
[][][]Establish a National Bank: A centralized bank being formed would be a good step for the centralization of the economy and would enable people to start storing their limited ration coupons in a central institution. These savings would minimize the risk for people transporting large amounts of ration coupons and enable the use of some limited digital financial tools to reduce fraud and improve responsiveness. The foundation of the bank would be a major effort, though a necessary one to ensure that the economy can continue to exist. When the current crisis is over a bank should also be able to finally stabilize the situation and ease the transition to a fiat currency, allowing the resumption of conventional economics once the crisis is over.
[]Form a Reporting Bureau: Despite the losses of major urban centers, not all private enterprise has been entirely destroyed. While some may want to nationalize it all and have it be run by the state, this is mostly unnecessary. Through the use of a reporting bureau and a number of contracting arrangements, what is left of the private sector can be incentivized into acting in the government's interests, allowing us to use most of the surviving old management. Some in the coalition may consider such a continuation of the policy to be a betrayal of why they rose up, but given that they know nothing about how to operate a tractor, much less manage a factory, they can be safely ignored.
[]Nationalize Unclaimed Assets: Given the tragic deaths of so many of the wealthy oligarchs of the nation and the many even more tragic accidents that have happened to others, there is now a massive amount of assets that can be conveniently nationalized by the state with few protests. Some of the heirs to such wealth may be slightly angry, but given the state of most urban centers and where they preferred to live, many have been rendered incapable of protesting. This would bring much of the large-scale industry under direct state control, enabling the promotion of middle management into managerial roles to see what can be recovered.
[]Establish Limited Interconvertibility: As tempting as it would be to declare all savings void from the old regime and to cut off the various wealthy people at the source, peoples savings have been a critical factor in keeping them alive during the war years, and some will have an irrational response to fully losing them. Instead of utterly rejecting the old currency, a program to convert it to ration coupons can be started to ensure that new ration-based currency can be issued out to the population while also providing a measure to minimize dissent at no cost. Of course, to satiate some of the more radical members of the government, this convertibility will be at a disfavorable rate and limited per account, ensuring that it is not excessively exploited.
[]Start Ministry Replenishment: The current ministry is a barely functional mess of incapable personnel and fresh hires, with just a few people that can minimally understand what they are doing. To make matters worse, the ministry is understaffed in the extreme, limiting what can be done with any competence. Any new hires may need extensive training and still be incredibly green, but having sufficient personnel should at least improve future functionality. (+5 to No Bureaucracy) (No Roll)
Topic in Focus: Since I like writing backstory/and am on a SciFi kick, I figured why not do some setting exploration by everyone voting on a topic they want to hear more about.
[]The Economy of 3D printing and local fabrication
[]Bioweapon Program Designations
[]Panoception as a Counter-Dissident Mechanism
[]The Two Revolutions
[]Changes in Ground Warfare
[]History of Space Exploration
8 Hour Moratorium, Vote by Plan, outside of topic in focus
