Turn 6 Quashing the Fires (1-2 AE)
Census Results
Due to the excesses of the oligarchy and the mistakes made in the transition towards post-war governance, the population across the planet has been reduced almost tenfold. This is alarming but within the prior range of predictions for the consequences of a nuclear exchange and simply means that the situation must be worked around. Four hundred and seventy million citizens are all that is left of the global population, and they will have to be sufficient for any construction that is undertaken. Now that genuine democracy is being built, people's optimism should even ensure a degree of population growth if insufficient for long-term economic projections.
The excesses of the industrial ministry have already been disciplined and harshly criticized, with further acts expected to be far more preservational than before as the pool of viable work capacity has been depleted. Fortunately, morale-raising speeches have kept the public enthusiastic about the new course and ensure that the people can stand ready to build a truly new society, free from the perversions of the old world. Education for democracy is expected to start on a limited scale this year, with full-scale reconstruction set to rapidly follow as assets become more available to the people.
Governmental Decisions:
The Question of the Constitution:
[]Burn It: The old document is inherently tainted by those that wrote it and may as well be burned for all the value it can provide. Re-writing the document from scratch under proper military watch and ensuring that it has no escape clauses outside of the obvious instances of gross treason will ensure that popular rights can be maintained without any impact on overall security. The simplification of rights will also ensure that it will be simple for all to memorize it and commit it to heart as the core building block of the republic.
[]Edit it: Large sections of the constitution are inherently oligarchic. What is the freedom of speech if certain voices can broadcast their incorrect opinions far further? What is freedom from unjust punishment if fines are simply fees for the rich? What is the purpose of regional rights if they are just an avenue for corruption? Axing the most abused provisions and consolidating the document into several acceptable provisions can ensure a degree of continuation from the old world, all while eliminating any inherent excesses in the document.
[]Keep it: Maintaining the bevy of excesses and over-reaches in the constitution will in the long term, have a negative impact on the state, but with an aggressive legal push, even this issue can be solved. By working around clauses promising certain things and ensuring that oligarchy cannot creep into the system a continuation can be maintained. This would be the weakest as everything would rest on the legislature, but assuming democratic education goes well, it shouldn't be too much of an issue.
The Question of the Democratic System:
[]First Past the Post: The principle of each citizen having a single vote is the tried and true old mechanism and isn't inherently erroneous. In a number of local elections, the vote will split to disfavor a popular candidate, but given the system's simplicity, it will at least ensure that citizens can easily use it. Implementation is also expected to be the easiest, as a single stage of vote counting will allow the people to determine their representatives.
[]Proportional: Tying the vote to party organizations will encourage the second layer of an elite, but given that the people will still be selecting candidates, that will not matter. By using a mixture of local and national proportional pools, parties can determine candidates and place them in as representatives. As long as party power is relatively controlled, this would allow for the people to be directly represented in large districts, eliminating the unjust power of gerrymandering authorities.
[]Block Voting: Offering the population a number of selections and choices in the vote should enable a shift away from single-split candidates winning. Sure more mild-mannered ones that are approved of by everyone will tend to win elections, but this isn't inherently a bad thing. Better to select a tolerable representative than a mess of split votes causing an unpopular political group to go into power. As there would be a limit of party candidates in the running, this should also in theory, depower most political parties, tightening races and allowing for a healthy multi-party system.
Response to the Census
[]Radical Reconstruction: Population reconstruction is necessary now that there have been so many losses between the war and disease. Instead of relying on slow methods and conventional reproduction, new techniques can be implemented in order to accelerate reconstruction. Zero-cost genetic modifications can be offered under the guise of sharing the gifts of the old elites, while theoretical programs can be extended from the synthetic production of novel livestock strains. As more of the population grows in the post-war world than in the pre-war one, a proper mentality and social consciousness can be built from nothing, furthering state development.
[]Relocation and Consolidation: The remaining population is currently living in practically useless areas of the planet with little infrastructure or anything to make themselves useful. By starting mass relocations across the planet and consolidating communities into food-secure urban centers, control can be enhanced, population reproduction density can be improved, and monitoring for subversion can be made far easier. These consolidations will have a primary economic effect but should ensure a degree of cost savings toward the resumption of state services.
[]Social Policies: Funding children across the population is the most conventional and least productive way to ensure population reconstruction, but it is one that can be done. Through free childcare and a number of benefits for families with a number of children, the growth rate can eventually start recovering and improving, ensuring that the general public can rebuild in as "natural" a way as possible, keeping conservatives happy.
Purification of Old Laws
[]Purge It: Common law is an inherently oligarchic concept and must be removed for society to progress past the oligarchic stage. By destroying the entire legal code and consolidating everything into a series of no-nonsense laws that are immune to interpretation by lawyers, the people can fully understand and take the law into their own hands. It will be the peoples duty to determine what is right and what is wrong when arguing in front of a judge, not some overpaid legal professional that has never experienced hardship.
[]Selective Implementation: Some standard laws do have a point, especially around more complex issues where individuals cannot understand interactions without a notable education. A number of business and organizational laws can be maintained within the guise of minimizing disruptions to economic relations while removing most personal-level laws. This would then enable a full rewrite later on when the economy isn't held together by a number of hopes and dreams.
[]Maintain non-monetary crimes: Crimes are still crimes; even if oligarchy were eliminated in its entirety as a social concept, theft would still occur along with a number of other crimes of passion. By keeping the old laws not related to money, an undue degree of power would be granted to legal bodies, but lacking trained personnel to work around them, it might be the most usable temporary fix for the people. Any monetary-related crimes can instead be shifted towards military tribunals, as it is impossible to trust educated near-oligarchic elites to rule on anything relating to finances.
Instructional Curriculum
[]Military-Civilian Service: Civilian service is necessary to build discipline and morale for the population. Conventional education has continuously failed to instill proper discipline and patriotism in the civilian population. By deemphasizing unnecessary knowledge and instead focusing students' time on military duties, each and every student can form a new scriptable cadre while having a unified system of values. Drills will be maintained as standard from the point the children can hold an imitation rifle, with classes organized as unit blocks ensuring that there are no lapses in discipline and building a new society for a new world.
[]Patriotic Duties: Education at an early stage will have to focus on the necessary professions at a favorable mix, as there are currently broad shortages of trained technical experts and a massive surplus of useless business degrees. New engineers will be trained along the lines of an intensified standard curriculum, with physical programs replaced with a moderated down pre-empting of military training. Upon standard graduation from the combined system, they will serve out two years of military service, returning to society afterward trained and ready to be productive citizens. For those taking useless specialties, the service length will be extended to a decade to ensure that a degree of value can be salvaged from their early education.
[]Restructuring of Curriculum: Useless subjects are just that, useless specializations that shouldn't be taught as standard in the educational system. By focusing courses on a shortened historical summary and an intensified regime of math and sciences, it should be possible to release practically ready engineers from the overall education system. Following two years of standardized service, they can then be released into the public to pursue whatever they desire on their own time. If they want to specialize in something useless to the general public, then it can be done on their own time and only if they can prove a degree of competence in respectable subjects.
[]Teaching the Facts Alone: Shortening the educational system in order to produce as many graduates as possible may not be optimal in the long term, but it will be quick. Covering a correct version of history along with a heavy emphasis of useful content, students will be rapidly prepared to enter the workforce. Conscription will inherently need to be shortened to ensure that they can enter the general workforce as soon as possible, with further education expected to be provided outside on the students' own time rather than as a state effort.
Set Budget: Now that the state is formalized and the discrete ministries can manage on their own, the time has come to actually commit to a budgetary spread that is functional and not inherently problematic. Funding is horrifically limited, industrial capacity is nearly non-existent, and most development will rely on masses of citizens rather than any significant proportion of machinery. Still, development must occur if society is to finish its reconstruction towards exceeding the old heights.
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-Committee of State Security: [][][]
-Orbital Command(Groundside): [/][//]
-Military: [][][/][//]
-Ministry of Infrastructure [][][][//]
-Ministry of Development [][][][][]
-Ministry of Agriculture [][][/][/][]
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-Personal Focus/Free Action: Action Cost+1
Governmental Actions: The transition towards a democratic system is not expected to be easy, but it is necessary in order to properly transform the state of the old world. Further efforts in increasing citizen participation and ensuring that the people can correctly vote for those opposed to oligarchic excess will be a challenge but an entirely surmountable one. Current plans towards giving individuals with respectable political histories arms and representation will ensure that any deviation towards similar excesses can be fought at every level, maintaining the necessary development of the nation. (Choose 2 Actions) (Modifier Source: Galchobhar Cu Ruih)
[]Organization of Democratic Movements: Lower-echelon democracy is all well and good, but further organization is needed for it to avoid corruption and for it to maintain its predominance. Focusing on giving further budgetary and collection power to local councils will ensure that the people can take charge of their own development, maintaining stability and building the state at every stage. In practice, a lot will remain the same, but it will form a good initial preparatory stage for the development of proper appointment mechanisms to mid-ranking posts.
[]Foundation of People's Militias: The demobilized population is ready to take up arms in the preservation of the state and the elimination of oligarchy. By giving sets of patriots arms and pointing them at the remaining holdouts of oligarchs, they can be swept away in a wave of national fervor. We have left the little islands with mansions separated out from the world alone for far too long. By letting the people take their vengeance into their hands though, a national mythos can be built at the cost of just a few rifles.
[]Development of Financial Assets: Despite the depth of the crisis, several members of the population have managed to accumulate large numbers of hard assets. By leaving the duty of punishing the thefts to the local democratic organs, a massive quantity of assets can be obtained at almost no cost. These will then be rapidly shifted towards the construction of the economy, ensuring that things can continue to develop optimally. Some may protest these seizures, but as they are clearly guilty of profiteering and looting, their complaints will simply be a further admission of guilt.
[][]Convening of Regional Councils: Large-scale regional councils with representatives from local councils can now be convened in order to begin the replacement of military governance. For now the civilians will be expected to serve as a prototypical legislative component to the military executive, but if they prove themselves capable of it, it is expected that military governance will be supplanted over the course of a few years. As the army will maintain overall control anyway, this will also be a perfect chance to bring any oligarchic elements out of hiding at little social cost, eliminating them when they come out to implement policy.
[][]Unification of Planetary Governance: Bringing together the council and the ministries' local branches of all systems of governance can be set up and constructed in order to ensure a discrete command system. This will further reduce the role of the army in governing the new state, maintaining civilian bureaucratic control of the most relevant aspects of citizens' lives. Further expansions are also planned to ensure an increase in productivity, as local branches will provide options for local management of necessary resources.
Committee of State Security: The prevalence of Oligarchic threat at several levels have thankfully been minimized through the vigilance of the political organs that have been built, but the work still needs to be done. Enterprise-level strikes have served to act against accumulation at a number of levels while informing on those accumulating massive excesses of assets for their own interests. Further programs at striking at oligarchic interests have been proposed in order to secure the stability of the state and continue development in the original scheme. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Eithne Ròs)
[]Informant Programs: The looters and traitors of the old guard are still amongst the people and propagandizing about the nobility of sabotaging the current best chance for global survival. To stop these individuals, informants will be recruited from a number of demographics, waging an increased allotment of food for information on malcontents. These can then be further monitored or arrested in the case of extreme excess, stabilizing society and minimizing the spread of problematic concepts through the unrefined instrument of fear.
[]Synthetic Party Organizations: The formation of party-political organizations is inherent to the functioning of any state, but the current instability leaves a breadth of options for radicalism. ,By utilizing local agents to form these organizations and using them as bait for broader dissident networks, entire underground organizations can be brought into the light and dissolved. By ensuring that the radical wings are kept in a state of suppression, further state-building can be enabled, ensuring a steady pace of progress toward democratic construction.
[]Justice System Overhauls: Argumentative justice is slow to implement and depends on the general public being understanding of a bevy of legal procedures. Instead of relying on such an easily influenceable court system, a series of statutes can be made defining what law is necessary and what isn't, ensuring that the old precedents can be left in the past. A further implementation of a number of typical customary laws on the global level will also ensure a steady unification of the planetary legal system.
Orbital Command: The situation in orbit for once has been a mixture of optimism and dread, as bases planetside have been finally established. Resource production is paltry and deeply insufficient, but it is actual production. Steel printing efforts have built up a degree of capacity in the orbits themselves as large hull sections have been replaced with simplified materials. Cabling production is insufficient and inefficient, but it is now existent. Circuit production has been limited to low-integration discrete transistor units, but even those electronics are enough for a number of simple control systems. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Gormflaith no Boinne)
Habitat Rationalization: Confiscations of electronic devices regrettably need to be instituted along with new habitation protocols to minimize resources used. Portions of the station are set to be de-powered until rudimentary fission cores can be constructed in sufficient numbers. The control systems may only contain 3D-printed low-integration transition electronics, but that should be sufficient to keep power supplies stable once we deplete the supply of high-enrichment material. Further reductions in crew space and exercise regimes should minimize loads on nutritional expenditure, extending orbital capability for at least a time. (Orbital Action up to Minister)
[/]First Transport Flights: The nuclear thermal ASSTO's have been constructed, and now it is only time for them to be landed. Consumable goods are expected to be the primary items sent up in the first flights, with a landing flight of bodies, both to bury them in their home soil and to prove the reliability of the re-entry system. Current rates of launch are unpredictable due to the scarcity of very high-purity uranium and ground-side landing issues. Assuming all systems work for the first flights a total of nine resupply flights are planned for the current period, with the first launcher experiencing three re-entrees. (Groundside Action) (+1 Permanent Budget) (Direction of Orbital Action)
[//]Survey the Launch Ramp: As the launch ramp is currently a mess, it isn't going to do much to enhance orbital cargo launching. Through a dedicated industrial effort, reconstruction of the massive project can be started. Most of the effort will focus on restoring the pressure in the tube and re-constructing the rails necessary to launch payloads. The plasma launch window is almost certainly entirely beyond current capabilities, but over the course of the next few years, the funding can be provided in order to start rebuilding it in its entirety. (Groundside Action) (Effective Unlimited budget capacity for LDO after 5AE)
Military Command: With the rationalization of rations and the cutback of resources allocated towards the army, a number of grumbling issues have occurred in the ranks. Recruitment could have been better over the last period as the intensive disease pressure due to interacting with the public has only now dropped in intensity. Military courts have also been overwhelmed by the massive number of personnel needing some form of decision, necessitating some form of expansion. The Northern regions have also become near-anarchic zones without much governance, leaving a lot to be desired and necessitating a likely costly military deployment just to keep things functional. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Morcant Singleir)
[]Strengthen Army Courts: Military courts are currently the only legal institution of the land; subsequently, additional personnel and funding can be transferred to them to ensure that they can continue to function in the steadily degrading environment. The MPs will receive any volunteers from main branch units while also considerably re-enforcing the investigative departments for their use in the solving of civilian crimes through the army. If further justice reforms are implemented, this change will also entirely allow for the decoupling of financial crimes from the old system, allowing them to be properly sorted out.
[]Restart Conscription: Conscripts are needed to both fill positions and to stabilize the state of policing units. Current personnel is technically sufficient to fulfill both roles, but more work is needed in order to ensure police roles can be maintained. Poor pay and considerable attrition in the positions have hampered morale, necessitating a steady stream of replacements to be sent into the service. The current scheme for conscription envisions more of a mixed system, but the ability to pull personnel into service cannot be understated.
[/]Spare Parts Production Start: Now that the self-replication of 3D printing capacity has begun from the Ministry of Industry and Finance, considerations can be taken towards replacing a number of worn-down parts. Limited production runs of secondary parts, engine components, and critical high-tolerance parts can be initiated to keep stored vehicles in fighting condition and to head off any failures. Production isn't going to be sufficient for quite some time, but at least it will provide a baseline of quality parts and replacements and stop current reserves from declining as quickly.
[//]Northern Peacekeeping: Sending a number of units to the North for a long deployment will be a major logistical and industrial challenge, but one that must be eventually implemented. It is not a current priority, but the integration of the limited Northern industrial base and the stoppage of any conflicts up there will go a long way toward proper global unification. Moderate gains are expected from the salvaging of the region and a constant emphasis on the restoration of tax and business structures, but it is expected that these patrols will be a constant drain of assets and nearly politically impossible to cancel once implemented.
Ministries
Ministry of Infrastructure: The current remnants of infrastructure range from insufficient to non-existent, and massive construction programs are needed now to just get people housed, much less support industrial development. Ports are still not entirely dug out, large portions of the population are still living in barracks, and clean water access is scarce and remote for most. Restoration of homes will, however, come secondary to a broader resumption of transportation, as, without the industrial capacity to build modern domiciles, not much can be done to improve the peoples' conditions. If sufficient budget is allocated, we can start replacing the slowly aging nuclear fleet before cores start properly burning out, but it can, in theory, wait a year or two before we start losing significant cargo capacity. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Gormagal O Riagain)
[]Housing Restoration Projects: The housing situation is, frankly, unsustainable and actively worsening despite our best efforts. Starting the mass construction of rationalized barracks and dug-out housing can only serve to improve the supply for the people. Sure conditions will be cramped, but access to warm shelter with clean water is more than most of the citizens have now. Efforts here will center more on near-urban areas, repurposing large areas into rationalized communal housing, but discrete rural dugout programs will also be initiated.
[]Continued Port Reclamation: Dredging work has been completed at low-impact ports, but the main harbors are still challenging to navigate. Using surplus barge traffic, improvised cranes can at least clear channels in central harbors and open the primary Tir Na Nog and Avalon loading docks to merchant traffic. Local island barges will be the heaviest vessels that will initially be able to fit, but the path toward restoring commercial traffic will only start when the major harbors are cleared.
[]Road Clearing: Bitumen is now available in sufficient quantities for large scale road-construction efforts in order to stabilize the situation and ensure that the population can continue to develop. These roads will focus on the restoration of a number of primary corridors from ports and starch farming installations, providing a stable supply of food and industrial goods to as many personnel as possible. This will only patch some of the less damaged interior corridors and leave millions without any connection in even the best case, but it's a start to global efforts at resuming transportation and ensuring that work can be continued without too many issues.
[//]Yard Restarts: Several smaller shipyards and drydocks have endured the war, with only large portions of their facilities destroyed, but not entirely destroyed. By adapting several of the more viable ones towards the section building of cheap fuel oil powered section built cargos, the overall cargo fleet can start being restored, replacing ships that were lost in port and starting the buildup of an entirely new generation of barges. These would be primitive in technology and fortunate to float for more than a few hundred transport runs, but every ship made now is a massive gain in transportation capacity. Yields aren't expected to pick up until the next year, but the recovery of the planet will need the recovery of the navy before the press-ganged nuclear-military transports entirely break down.
Ministry of Development: The department is currently a mess and prioritized communal but useless goals. The last minister may have died in a tragic accident for the incompetence demonstrated, but even without experience, far better things can be accomplished for a minimal degree of funding. Efforts towards building out private services can be initiated for a minimal cost and without too much hassle, ensuring that the population can start having a steady improvement in their quality of life. More effective versions of the information retention programs can also be initiated, starting a trend for public education and later on continuing the essential trend towards public healthcare. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Caireall Duanei)
[]Private Farming Efforts: Farmers have been continuously neglected by the government, and this needs to change if standards of living are expected to at all recover. By returning portions of seed grain in areas viable for mass planting along with releasing the limited stocks of fertilizer, a decent harvest can be secured. These fruits and vegetables will likely be problematic in supply and inconsistent in terms of preservation, but at least they will be something that doesn't replicate the approximate taste of eating semi-sweet powdered dairy.
[]Starting of Education: Educational efforts have effectively broken down at all levels. While there isn't the personnel to do anything close to a full resumption at all levels, a few standardized classes in mathematics and language can be started now to ensure that the next generation isn't too deficient. Community education efforts can be organized under the purview of local councils, ensuring that they can bring up the next generation with some basic knowledge. Further reforms will, of course, be needed for anything but the bare basics, but that can come years down the line.
[]Population Hygiene Allowances: The production of soapy solids is dirt cheap from an industrial perspective and necessary in order to individually limit the spread of disease. While the old efforts at communal showers have worked in the purview of a limited water allowance, a good deal of progress can be made by just giving out toiletries as an accompaniment to rationing cards. It is expected that over the course of the year, net production will increase to the point of being able to supply every citizen with a bar of soap. This won't magically fix all disease and cleanliness issues, but it will at least minimize foul smells on the street and serve to reduce disease.
[]Restoration of the Library System: Old-style books are incredibly out of fashion in most areas, but we have plenty of them, and they have been far less damaged than digital databases. By consolidating them and starting up a small re-printing industry, the public can have some form of entertainment for a minimal cost to the state along with the resumption of a number of old communal activities. Full restoration will likely take years just to reprint the volumes needed, but providing centralized centers for community activities will yield considerable dividends.
[]Server-Network Linkages: Assuming a bevy of funds are provided, the old digital architecture can start being worked on. Priority will fall toward the restoration of public access databases along with a limited degree of networking at low bandwidths. Nothing compared to the old internet will be possible in the short term, but some resumptions at low bandwidth now will help a number of industries and lower-skilled workforces to compensate for lack of immediately available knowledge.
Ministry of Agriculture: Starch has succeeded past any original expectation for the program, with yields only expected to increase as the atmosphere clears up. Genetic efforts are still lagging, and the scientific establishment has been damaged by the persistent and consistent lack of care for the educated population. With what is remaining, an aggressive program of reconstructing basic food supply systems, enhancing popular morale through chemicalization, and further initiatives to begin the long-term recovery of birth rates need to be started. Population decline is still expected to occur for the next few years, but even that can be reversed with further engineering and a proper industrial mindset. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Caolfionna Dumh)
[]Starch Programs: Excess caloric production is a highly important goal for the sufficient supply of material to the people. While the previous effort is already producing enough to keep food levels stable, a further degree of funding can enable the production of a mild surplus. Allowing the population to each have an extra forty to fifty percent ration allocation will go a long way towards ingratiating them towards the government and ensuring that they can feed whatever dependents they produce. Stockpiling will also start, preventing acute food supply disruptions from having too much of a negative effect.
[]Chemicalization of Production: Shifting the old nutrient supplement system to a proper heavy industrial one will take time and expertise, but it is a necessary change. The expansion of several organic-chemical-producing plants, along with a dramatic switch over to precursor compounds for essential nutrients, will improve population health and efficiency. This will also render the bulk algal starches into a more palatable form, as many have been repulsed by dried blue-green powder. Using efficient bars incorporating a strong flavor and a binding agent will ensure that the general population will dread eating properly just a bit less.
[/]Biological Editing Programs: Now that the oligarchical structures are gone, and the patent libraries are re-appropriated, genetic modification for common base profiles can be distributed to the masses. Fertilization is still likely to occur entirely manually as the more advanced methods for population-level interventions are not viable. Still, the distribution of gamete cell targeting vectors should be simple and easy, necessitating a minimal degree of investment on the part of the parents, just a degree of preparation. Production via bacterial lot is practically already set up, it's just now the modifications can be distributed to volunteers for the almost non-existent price of production rather than the millions they took before the exchange.
[/]Biopolymer Industries: We have the organisms to build up the production of a number of necessary plastics and other critical industrial materials. While sourcing from petrochemicals would be fairly simple, the presence of easy algal industrial models is easier to expand and far less dependent on heavy machinery. By instead focusing on this, whole new products can be made while reinforcing a number of areas. Novel polymers should even be able to take the load off a number of more conventional building materials, ensuring that they can be further optimized. Plants are expected to be comparatively primitive for a time, but any production is good production.
[]Biosphere Salvaging Initiatives: Genetic libraries have, in practice, been wiped off the surface of the planet thanks to targeted hypersonics by the second phase of the war, as they posed a considerable risk in contributing to biological weapons developments. Now that the conflict is over and we have an almost complete commercial database, it is only sensible to start the mass backup of the rest of the planet's organisms. Losses are expected to be severe on the order of fifty to eighty percent of species, but sampling programs will considerably simplify later revival if it proves necessary. A library of genes can also serve useful functions in transgenic projects for the general public, ensuring a continuous improvement of baseline profiles.
Ministry of Industry: The development of the power grid has enabled a surplus of industrial electricity that is a prudent investment for several important sectors. Production of new steel and new parts is an essential element of producing actual industrial goods, especially as large parts of the industrial base are held together by optimism and dreams. Initial plans for the resumption of production will focus on the establishment of discrete industrial capacity independent of high-precision electronics manufacturing. This will be followed by establishing a fully independent grid away from the current improvised naval linkages into the grid. Over the next few years, the supply of surplus components will likely entirely deplete itself, but assuming reasonable investments are maintained, technical losses should be minimized in most sectors. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Fonnghal Lonach)
[/]Formal Parts Rationing: Electronic and high-precision mechanical spare parts are limited and valuable commodities that cannot be replaced. Current industrial projections show that we will only be able to make up the difference in time for a small portion of our industry. Starting rationing and replacement programs now can only help to keep stocks viable for a bit longer, ensuring that the drawdown of high-quality industrial production is far more smoothly planned. Thankfully, the threat of hypersonic attacks on critical plants has served to disperse parts caches, ensuring that we can have a stable supply for a time. (Slows Econ Collapse)
[//]Private-Public Coordination Systems: There are hundreds of small machine shops that have been incompetently pressed into service by industrial commands, with even more mismanaged and broken up in the hopes of maintaining some large-scale industry. By instead letting them operate as private enterprises, some supply of far better coordinated spare parts can be secured without trying to further over-extend the industrial commands trying to micromanage something that is mostly functional. Further funding is expected to ramp up select production, with near-term viable circuitry and proper mid-precision spare parts entering full-scale production. (Slows Econ Collapse)
[//]Heavy Industrial Intensification: The nation cries for more steel, more coal, and for more materials to further build out the industrial system. By throwing labor at issue along with some of the remaining stocks of equipment, some of the first new mines and steel mills can be started. Ferrous metal supplies are expected to properly stabilize over the first few months, with nonferrous production expected to take a bit longer. Actual productive industries will take even longer to stabilize, but being able to run retro-tech industrial processes sustainably will establish a solid floor for any decline. (+1 Permanent Budget)
[]Scrap Material Gathering: Whatever scrap material can be fed into the overall industrial system must be fed into the overall industrial system. By starting several food-incentivized drives for civilians able to secure significant quantities of scrap metals and polymers, overall economic efficiency can be improved and throughput enhanced. These programs are expected to yield little, but by properly utilizing the spare labor potential of the civilians, yields can be improved at a minimal cost. (+5 Budget now, -1 Permanent Budget)
[]Petrochemical Intensification: Old yield limitations in the petrochemical industry have occurred due to a number of refining standards and the sustainable high-yield exploitation of oil wells. If, instead, hydro-flooding is intensified to a near nonsensical point while lower grades of refining are deemed as acceptable, overall system throughput can be improved at a moderate cost. None of the equipment will hold up exceptionally well, and several deposits will be rendered unusable, but production will sufficiently increase for the mass issuance of heating oil and the lifting of a number of limitations on vehicle logistics.(+3 Permanent Budget, Accelerates Econ Collapse, Accelerates Energy Collapse)
Ministry of Finance: Banking structures have been established, but there currently exist only a few financial organs to do anything with them on a large scale. With the establishment of enterprise taxation and centralized stock exchange, progress can be made on restoring core elements of the old economy while preventing any excesses. Further efforts will center on enhancing the responsiveness of the economy and ensuring that monopolies cannot form in any sense. Still, as there is little left of the private economy, that's a secondary concern. (Funding Applied top to Bottom) (Modifier Source: Paislig Faolain)
[]Develop Fiscal Structures: Building up an economy is a significant challenge when all forms of capital allocation have been rendered useless. By moving the central state-integrated concerns to partially publicly traded values, a degree of old economic activity can be revived in the form of marketed funds. These would be small in value and fairly selective in terms of capital markets, but it will at least restore conventional investment mechanisms for private interests and banks.
[]Formalize Taxation: Bringing all non-state-owned businesses into a tax regime can only help with the long-term economy and will serve to limit the out-flow of Ór. Current plans are to maintain the current taxes as an indexed value-added tax across all industries, ensuring that a portion of funds flows towards the state and that taxation is easy to calculate. Further tax programs will frankly require years of census work and stabilization before even being theoretically viable, much less implementable. (Budget Gain Subvote)
[]Anti-Monopolistic Codification: Monopolies form as the logical conclusion of coordination between large enterprises. As it is generally impossible to prevent the formation of industry-leading industries, their breakup must be enforced when they hit a strict limit of extent. No one coordinating organization should be able to control half of a market sector or engage in anti-competitive practices. Taking the old reformist platform and utilizing it as a wedge will also serve to provide the people with an example of the policies the government will implement before the full transition toward democratization is complete.
[]Resume Service Sector Employment: Despite the constant disdain for the service sector most personnel in other economic sectors have, it is a fundamental part of the economy and population comfort. By allowing some minimized service positions, primarily in delivery and preparation of food, to exist instead of being drafted out to go work in coal mines, some moderate comforts can return to the urban population. This will also inherently start a limited primary education system for several children, but that will be more of the job of the ministry of development to manage and expand.
12-Hour Moratorium, Vote by Plan (Also, big warning/disclaimer that your characters and choices are biased as fuck due to the people you put in charge)
