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[milo christiansen]

Spoiler: Actions for Haiti (click to show/hide)

Major actions:

New political party:
A charismatic former general has founded a new political party, popular with the military and the poor. "Militärpartei" (MP) espouses the "nation in arms" concept, and has gathered enough support to push through the first phase, universal conscription. The inital problem is female recruits...

About the Militärpartei:
First off, the MP is not facist, but they are nationalist. The current platform is focused on universal conscription, full citizenship only for those who have served in the military (or, for those who cannot, serve the country in some other way), automatic citizenship for anyone of any nationality that serves in the military and becomes a resident, and extensive improvment projects funded and constructed by the military. They are popular with the military for obvious reasons, and the poor due to the promise of good military supported jobs, and mlitary pay for young peole, as well as their strong pro-Haiti message.

Females allowed in army:
The Militärpartei hold that all citizens must serve their country, and to apease them the current ruling party has allowed universal conscription, including females. Since the army did not allow females before, it is finally decided that most female drafties will be assigned to support battalions, in particular medical, logistics, and air operations. Some of the more physically fit females are assigned to mechanized infantry, but in general they simply do not have enough upper body strength to serve in direct combat roles. For now all battalions are segregated as much as possible,  and female batalions are "over womaned" to allow for the inevitable pregnancies.

Start talks with Navarra:
The ruling party is less than intersted in Navarra, but the minor parties make enough fuss to push talks through. ((Where in the hell is Navarra?)) In particular the MPs are a strong force in support of this depite the fact that they are not facists.

Minor actions:

Send military observers to Spain:
The army in Asturias has been at war for many years, so sending some observers to see how they do things will certainly not hurt anything.

Research the possibility of starting rubber plantations in Cuba:
It should be possibl to grow these plants there, so try a small pilot plantation to see if it can be made economically viable.

Research Action:
Aircraft propolusion research. In particular, new alloys for lighter engines. Alumnium and magnesium are particlarly interesting. The goal is to create a new high power engine for next generation fighters.

Engineering Action:
To absorb the extra man and woman power the military is building new bases. In particular, larger inital entry schools are in the process of being built, and all bases must be enlarged.

[BlackHeartKabal]

Spoiler: Basileia Rhomaion (click to show/hide)

Major Actions:

1. Socialist Compromise - The Parliament institutes socialist reforms and policies, such as minimum wage laws, worker rights laws, and limits to working hours, to attempt to alleviate the tensions of the people and get the factories working.

2. Reinforce Orthodox Faith and Identity - The Basileus makes his plea that the exiles of the island put their differences beside and unite under the banner of the true faith, to protect it from the "onslaught of the misguided Pentarchy of Rome." Propaganda is rolled out, in a massive campaign across the islands.

3. Imperial Intelligence - The Basileus and Parliament agree to establish and expand a loyal intelligence service for the empire, composed mostly of Black supporters pulled from "useful" elements of the supporting members of the military and other "ad-hoc" intelligence services that may have remained for case by case use of subterfuge and espionage.

Research: A new capital ship. The ironclads have served us well, but it's time to retire them.

Engineering: Building of silk textiles and other minor industries as a source of extra revenue.

Minor Actions:

-Lower the tax rate to 75% for now. 100% is inefficient.

-Encourage expansion of diplomatic channels with Greece, Japan, and Swabia.

-Distribute revanchist propaganda to the populace.

-Award loyal officers with the Medallion of Imperial Defence, for their service in protection of the empire.

-Begin a census and review administrative statistics and data.

[Maximum Spin]

Spoiler: Kievan Rus' (click to show/hide)

Major Actions:

• Rusyn Public Library: To encourage literacy among the karls, we will build a public library in Kiev, with a pan-Slavicist collection and volunteer-led literacy classes. All other cities will be encouraged to follow suit.
• Meritocracy: In order to stifle public unrest regarding corruption, all political and military appointments must be strictly meritocratic; high-level appointments will be argued in public so that all may know the rationale, while lower-level appointments must merely be based on thorough reporting on a prospective appointee's ability. Anyone found falsifying reports will be executed.
• Economic summit: We must invest in industry if we wish to have any economic relevance in the world. To develop strategies toward this end, we will sponsor a summit of the best economists our schooling system has produced, and any from other countries who wish to join. The summit is to provide reports and policy recommendations directly to the Grand Prince.

Research: Kievan Rus' has some of the best education in the world (at least for the upper classes), and we must leverage this advantage as far as possible. To this end, we wish to stay on the cutting edge of theoretical physics, directing our research toward newly discovered concepts like the atomic nucleus, isotopes, and the proton (not to mention the neutron if anyone has discovered it yet in this timeline). In particular, we'd like to develop practical applications of the mass-energy theorem (I'm assuming that's been discovered by now) for harvesting energy from rest-mass.
Engineering: On more immediately practical matters, though, we must engineer new ways to extend naval power; our ships are utterly decrepit! We'll look into designing new battleships and perhaps even make an attempt at submarines.
Minor Actions:

• Colonel Pavlenko is formally promoted to hold his current position permanently, rather than inviting the opportunity for more corruption in replacing him.
• We shall sponsor several small math and science competitions for children and young adults in the educational system.
• The Grand Prince will of course personally oversee the annual Festival of Thunder and sacrifice a great ox to Perun.

Nothing else immediately comes to mind.