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Fellow members of the Assembly, as you by now have obviously heard, the United Federation to the East of our borders is suffering from an internal rebellion. While this would normally not be of our concern, we have received word that the Eden station in their borders has been damaged, or even destroyed. This is a matter of utmost importance, as the Geo-engineering Unit in Tarmavsol has been out of operation for the last 3 years, as a result of subsidence of essential infrastructure.

Additionally, we have received word that a storm has flooded the mines of the Calgari Conglomerate, located further North. Prices on the international markets have spiked, putting our own limited supply in danger.

These are the most immediate issues, but as always the start of the new year also requires various formalities to be handled, such as deciding budgets for Science and Industry, as well military modernization projects.

Urgent Issues
Resource Supply
Damaged Eden Substation
Decide on Research Projects
Other things


(OOC: Not completely finished. Nothing to stop you from discussing stuff and proposing assembly resolutions already. Everything will be finished before the votes occur. Including a map.)

Spoiler: The Democratic People's Republic of Tarmavsol (click to show/hide)

Treasury: 5000 credits
Resources: 100

The Capital:
Population: 3 000 000/ 3 000 000 [30 pop units]

Buildings :
    - Great University
    - Manufactory Complex
    - The Assembly
    - Aerodrome

Tiles:
    - 10 Luxury accomodations
    - 10 Modern Apartment buildings
    - 20 Apartment buildings
    - 10 Old Apartment buildings
    - 10 Slums

Eastern Tarmavsol
Population: 2 700 000/ 2 700 000 [27 pop units]
Tiles:
    - 250 Farmland
    - 200 Wilds
    - 50 Mines
Buildings
   - Eden Substation [Damaged] [Non-functional]

Western Tarmavsol
Population: 4 100 000/ 4 100 000 [41 pop units]

Tiles:
    - 400 Farmland
    - 100 Wilds
Buildings:
   - Eden Substation

The Assembly:
30% Unaffiliated
10% For each player character

Military:
Supply: 20/29 (Provided no miscalculations occurred)

Capital
5 Regulars
   - HP:  3/3
   - Atk: 1
   - Def: 1
2 Aerial Strike Squadron
   - HP: 4/4
      - Tempest Missile
      - Cannon
   - Def: 2
   - Traits: Flying
2 Main battle tanks
   - HP:  8/8
   - Atk: 4
   - Def: 4

1 Devastator Combat Walker
   - HP:  16/16
   - Atk: 4
   - Def: 6
   - Trait: Legacy Equipment

Eastern Tarmavsol
3 Militia [HP: 2/2 At:1 Def:1]
   - HP:  2/2
   - Atk: 1
   - Def: 1
2 Regulars [HP: 3/3 At:1 Def:1]
   - HP:  3/3
   - Atk: 1
   - Def: 1

Western Tarmavsol
3 Militia [HP: 3/3 At:1 Def:1]
   - HP:  2/32
   - Atk: 1
   - Def: 1
2 Regulars [HP: 3/3 At:1 Def:1]
   - HP:  3/3
   - Atk: 1
   - Def: 1

Rules

Spoiler: General Note (click to show/hide)

The rules are intentionally kept vague. This is to allow creativity, rather than forcing people down a single optimal path.

Spoiler: Buildings (click to show/hide)

Buildings are large region wide structures, that take up no tiles but can only be build once per region. They have widespread effects, but also significant costs. Below are some existing buildings and their exact functioning, as well as cost estimations.

    - Great University
Description: State of the art research facility, capable of developing advanced technology and weaponry
Cost: Unique
Effects: Can run up to 2 research projects without penalty at once. Research projects can be provided with funding for faster progress.
   
    - Manufactory Complex
Description: A large sprawling factory complex on the fringes of the city. Using advanced technology, the Complex can produce devastating weaponry as well as technological marvels.
Cost: Unique
Effects: Can turn 50 resources into 25 supply. Also allows access to advanced units.

    - Assembly building
Description: The political heart of the Republic. Heavily reinforced building in the center of the city.
Cost: Unique
Effects: Counts as a significant fortification, can house up to 5 units.

    - Aerodrome
Description: A large airport capable of not only securely housing multiple aircraft, but also various ground units
Cost: 3000, 20 resources
Effects: Large garrisoned structure, allows access to aerial units.

    - Eden Substation
Description: Life giving geo-engineering studies, protecting the area from storms and ecological disasters.
Cost: Unable to build with current technology
Effects: If offline, bad things happen.

    - Military Outpost
Description: A self-contained military base, allowing order to be kept in the outer regions.
Cost: 1000
Effects: Medium sized garrisoned structure. Allows recruitment of basic units.

Spoiler: Tiles (click to show/hide)

    - Luxury Accomodations
Description: Luxury accomodations for Tarmavsols higher class. Sustains lower population, but they contribute much more to the State budget.
Cost: 100 credits, 2.5 resources
Pop: 0.25
Supply: 0.1
Credit: 50
Food: 0
Resources: 0

    - Modern Apartment Buildings
Description: Modern Apartment buildings which provide suitable, affordable and cheap living space for Tarmavsol's middle class.
Cost: 50 credits, 2.5 resources
Pop: 0.5
Supply: 0.2
Credit: 20
Food: 0
Resources: 0

    - Apartment Buildings
Description: Nothing says Communist Republic like rows and rows of gray concrete tenements. At least these are nice and well maintained.
Cost: 40 credits, 1 resource
Pop: 0.5
Supply: 0.1
Credit: 10
Food: 0
Resources: 0

    - Old Apartment Buildings
Description: Ill maintained and basically falling apart, these buildings are standard housing for much of the population.
Cost: NOT BUILDABLE. Evolves from other areas.
Pop: 0.5
Supply: 0.1
Credit: 5
Food: 0
Resources: 0

    - Slums
Description: A continuing blight that slowly consumes the rest of the city. Still largely under government control, these areas are good recruiting areas for both government and paramilitary forces.
Cost: Not builable. Significant costs to remove.
Pop: 0.75
Supply: 0.2
Credit: 1
Food: 0
Resources: 0

    - Farmlands
Description: A spread out system of Communal farm lands, paying their taxes both in food and cash, from the sale of crops.
Cost: None
Pop: 0.01
Supply: 0.02
Credit: 1
Food: 0.1
Resources: 0

    - Wilds
Description: These areas have not had a designated use yet. They have sparse nature, and a small human population.
Cost: Not buildable
Pop: 0.001
Supply: 0.01
Credit: 0
Food: 0
Resources: 0

    - Mines
Description: Open pit strip mines still remain the dominant way of exploiting resources in Tarmavsol
Cost: 10 credits
Pop: 0
Supply: 0.1
Credit: 10
Food: 0
Resources: 0.1

Spoiler: Units (click to show/hide)

Militia
   - Cost:  250
   - HP:  2/2
   - Atk: 1
   - Def: 1

Regulars
   - Cost: 350
   - HP:  3/3
   - Atk: 1
   - Def: 1

Aerial Strike Squadron
   - Cost: 750, 10 resources
   - HP: 4/4
      - Tempest Missile
      - Cannon
   - Def: 2
   - Traits: Flying

Main battle tanks
   - Cost: 1000, 15 resources
   - HP:  8/8
   - Atk: 4
   - Def: 4

Spoiler: Players (click to show/hide)

Assembly member: Raul De Toss
Appearance: A young man in his mid-twenties with Black hair and Black eyes. He's of a very skinny build and always chooses to wear Black gloves whenever he can.
Bio: Raul De Toss went through education to follow the footsteps of his families legendary military history. Just about every generation one son would join the Military usually as officers through the Army Science/Leadership courses at the Great university. After 4-years he was commissioned to be a 2nd lieutenant and rose through the ranks to become a Captain in the army working with communications and counter intelligence warrior in posts East and West of Tarmavsol. One day his fathers old friend summoned him to inform him of his new duty in the assembly and was told to "do us proud Captain". Raul wonders if this is a position the Army opened up to keep their interest alive or if his loving father wants him to start a new legacy in the family. He is rumored to have a low self-esteem despite his ambition and wants for greatness, should he have it he does a good job of keeping it looking like a rumour.
Supports: 10%
As a Captain the Army Raul enjoys a lot of patriotic and Veteran applause. He also has warm feelings from conservatives and family figures who see the guantly man fight hard for his country and for betterment of all of their lives.
Traits: Military education
Assets: 200 credits

Character Name: Sven Wiel Schwarer
Appearance: A rather fit man in his mid thirties. Usually dressed in wear appropriate for both everyday use and formal settings. Standing at approximately 175cms, Sven is not an imposing figure. His rather dark skin and black hair works well together, one accentuating the other. His hair is kept short, and well-maintained.

Biography: As one of the assemblymen and a rather influential speaker at that, Sven leads a political movement aiming primarily for a stronger government, in which he prefers campaigning on a grass-roots level. Having studied at the grand university for a number of years, Sven has earned a not-insignificant number of degrees from the institution. In the public view, Sven does tend to play his accomplishments, being rather boisterous about them, though while he is rather immodest about his achievements, that he is quite honest about what he does, and does admit that he is a "Larger than life" figure due to circumstances.
Support: 10%

Traits: [Note to self, add something here]

Assets: 200 credits

Character Name: Chairman Arseni Mikhaelovitsch
Appearance and Biography: A Man of huge stature, looking suprisingly  fresh for his age of seventy. Arseni is the Chairman of the Union of Tarmavsol Mining and Factory Workers. Once himself a lowly worker of the Mines he has risen to the top and now not only owns a huge part of the stocks in the mines and the Grand Manufactory Complex but also holds great sway with the common workers who  see in him the symbol of the workers union. Arseni himself is a selfish and greedy man, abusing his position to gain leverage in the Assembly and increasing his own power. Despite his ruthless powergambles and the bad position the workers are in they still are loyal to him for some reason.
Support: 10%
Traits:
Assets: 500 credits

Character Name: Alfred Hill

Appearance and Biography: A slight man with a piercing eyes. Average height. Black hair. His father was a government clerk of no importance. War veteran who never rose past the rank of Corporal but was decorated for bravery on two occasions. After the war he attempted to overthrow the republic because he felt the government had abandoned the veterans. The coup was quickly put down by a few dozen lightly armed police. Hill's brief imprisonment was spent writing a book in which he detailed his vision of a bright future for the republic. He currently supports himself by giving speeches to other malcontents. He is obsessed with the occult.

Support: 10%
Popular amongst many war veterans and the urban poor. He has a band of thugs and rabble-rousers that put on marches and intimidate and harass those who don't join his fledgling political party.

Traits: Revolutionary

Assets: 1* Armed thugs [Same stats as militia, disbands randomly]

Character Name: Daniel Athen-Thorough

Appearance and Biography: A physicist and professor with a brilliant carreer, Daniel turned to politics to further the agenda of his fellow scientists (which are almost entirely reduced to "more budget to science! And education!". Daniel is the resident defender of costly, practically useless projects that could wield invaluable scientific results. Appears somewhat unkept, as he values intellectuality over superficiality of appearances in debate, to the point of disregarding the latter.

Support: 10%
People advocating for progress and education are almost always behind Daniel. Other people's support vary wildly depending on whether or not the scientific project asking for funding would further their own agenda. Militaries are happy to sign huge checks Daniel is handing them if they see potential for new toys for example. Industrial lobbies, on the other hand, will try to take down anything that would threaten their market position.

Traits: Scientist

Assets: 200 credits

Character Name: Torri Walker
Appearance: A woman of 5'6 height, possessing a thick build. Her orange-red hair has been cut to neck length. Her eyes are hazel, her skin tan like the beach on a cold, cloudy day.
Biography: Torri was born into an industrial working class family with seven other siblings. She used school as a method to ascend class and status, managing to graduate a chief university cum de laude. She used her degree to pursue the field of Social Sciences, focusing on tolerance and welfare for the poor. These jobs eventually allowed her to enter into the field of politics, where she gradually worked her way up the totem pole. An attempted assassination attempt by a reactionary paramilitary situation did not kill her, but only made her a living icon of her struggle, and actually made her a more popular candidate.
Support: 10%
Torri's positions and what she represents makes her popular among various groups: Leftists, Liberals, Some Moderates, Ethnic and Religious Minorities, Feminists, Homosexuals, Intellectuals, and the Working/Lower Classes. Of course, anyone opposed to these groups would be opposed to her as well.

Traits:
Voice of the Oppressed

Assets: 200 credits

Character Name: John Doe
Appearance: An unsuspecting, 5'6 man, with blond hair and brown eyes, about 34 years old. He seems to blend into the crowd, almost unconsciously.
Biography: John, if that's really his name, lived a tough life. He was orphaned at a young age during a terrorist attack, and brought up by soldiers. He joined the army the day he was old enough, and moved through the ranks, eventually being picked up by a Spec Ops team. He was eventually discharged after taking two bursts of fire in the left leg during a raid.
Support: 10%
John believes that the men he worked with and for are heroes, and that they deserve everything we can give them. He represents: Military, Military families, and, to a limited extent, Weapons Manufacturers.

Traits:
Ex Spec Ops
Leg would

Assets: 200 credits

[3man75]

Raul looks around to see if anyone is still on  moments. After seeing so he decides the best way to start is with a bit of a spark.

"There is no telling how much we can lose in lives and infrastructure due bad weather. I propose we send an envoy asking for their consideration in letting us foot the bill to repair the station. The rebels be damned and we should do what we can to avoid contact with them. If need be we shall use military force to help push the rebels for the Eden station is of the utmost importance to our country."

"Secondly, I'd like to put the following budget into play. Research at 30%, Industry at 30%, and an expansion and military readiness campaign for the military at 40%. We cannot leave our borders undefended."

As he finishes he looks around..what evils does this new life have for my country?

[BlitzDungeoneer]

PTW. (It's going to be interesting to see how this goes)

[Mr. Strange]

PTW

Edit: On second thought, I shouldn't have posted here if I don't actually play...

[Ghazkull]

" So you would respond to golden Economic Opportunities with a build up of military? But of course what else could be expected from you narrowminded jingoists. Only seeing your own well being, plundering this country out.

What we need is not a military buildup but economic expansion. With the Calgari Conglomerate out of the picture we have a golden opportunity to expand our own Mining Ventures and thus establish ourselves as the new Main Supplier in Iron and Copper.

Avoiding the Rebels is ridiculous aswell. We have no beef with either side and thus should make sure to establish us as neutral party in this situation and make sure that none of both parties attacks us while we repair the station.

But more importantly we need to get our own Eden Stations fixed. Thus i propose the following Budget as opposed to the Captain:

50% into Research, most importantly the restoration of the Eden Stations. 40% into Economy going into establishment of new Mines and 10% into our Military. There is no reason to expand it more than necessary.

[Taricus]

"In the essence of the eden station, I would say getting it operational again would be of prime concern to us, regardless of the controller of it and that any means are to be used in securing the facility so it can be repaired.

Now, in regards to our budget, I would say that 25% be devoted to research and industrial projects, 10% to the military and 40% into social services. At this time we cannot neglect the development of our nation. I would also propose sending out surveyors into "dead" land for suitable locations for new eden stations."

[Playergamer]

John stands up, rather shakily, with a look in his eye that gives you a feeling that he has seen far more then many old, old men.

"I know good men who have DIED over your silly "golden opportunities." There are brave men, right outside those doors, volunteering to live, and, yes, die, by your every word! This is not a military buildup, this is giving those brave men what they need to survive! This is MODERNIZATION, NOT MOBILIZATION!"

[3man75]

" So you would respond to golden Economic Opportunities with a build up of military? But of course what else could be expected from you narrowminded jingoists. Only seeing your own well being, plundering this country out.

What we need is not a military buildup but economic expansion. With the Calgari Conglomerate out of the picture we have a golden opportunity to expand our own Mining Ventures and thus establish ourselves as the new Main Supplier in Iron and Copper.

Avoiding the Rebels is ridiculous aswell. We have no beef with either side and thus should make sure to establish us as neutral party in this situation and make sure that none of both parties attacks us while we repair the station.

But more importantly we need to get our own Eden Stations fixed. Thus i propose the following Budget as opposed to the Captain:

50% into Research, most importantly the restoration of the Eden Stations. 40% into Economy going into establishment of new Mines and 10% into our Military. There is no reason to expand it more than necessary.

"If you want to strike the earth for materials then fine by me but can we really use our scientist to fix that eden station?"

"Oh and whoever said 40% into social services please know i can never vote in that budget plan. The Republic moves FORWARD not stagnate,. Also if the Military budget is going to be so low then i'd like to pass a certain resolution for conscription.

"The "New Warrior" Initiative. Basically any children babies not desired by parents can be turned into a military center for raising. The Children will of course be clothed, fed, washed, and instructed at public schools just like any other child and at 18 they will begin Military service for 4 years. This will not only keep a constant pool of fresh recruits but will keep down costs so the Chairman's industrial projects aren't touched too much. I would also like 15% of that research dedicated to better mobile armor forces. By the way Chairman i'd like it if you wouldn't call me narrow minded it hurts my feelings."

Raul looks at Arseni with challenging eyes but knows he won't object to the Initiative.

[kaian-a-coel]

"I will back Mr. Mikhaelovitsch budget plan. Restoration of the eastern Eden substation is of utmost importance. I morally and formally object to conscription in any way shape or form. Such foolishness is narrowminded to the point of dangerousness."

[Playergamer]

John smiles, although you can't really tell if it's genuine or not.

(referring to 3man)


"Personally, I don't like that idea very much. War is horrible, and I feel they should at least have a choice. Maybe make it a general Wards of the State program, where they're cared for until 18, and then they chose?"

[Taricus]

"If your your plan of moving forward means wasting the majority on our funds on militray expansion then I say someone has messed with not only your sense of direction, that your kinaesthetic senses are irreparably damaged. Providing services for our people, not just the military is what we are obligated to do."

[3man75]

"It's not moral says the scientist who cares nothing for anything in this world but research and results. War is horrible indeed gentleman but we are part of an assembly of human, we are NOT part of Zeus court of godly powers. The protection of our people and making sure that in these 4 years our military is more than just glorified border watch is of the utmost importance. Have we not seen so many bloody wars in the past {this is the dark ages remember this OOC and IC}? Tarmavsol a jewel that i want to keep shining in this darkness for i believe we will be the model nation that will take humanity out of this fog of fires and darkness. Also not that i'm saying this to scare anyone but those rebels could spill to our side of the border for protection should the war turn sour for them. We must be careful they're not going to bandit our private sectors while were putting funds to work in them."

[Playergamer]

"Yes, but we can get soldiers without resorting to conscription. Forcing a man to leave his family, leave his life, to see his comrades die beside him, and to quite possibly never return? I would never resort to that."

[3man75]

"Yes, but we can get soldiers without resorting to conscription. Forcing a man to leave his family, leave his life, to see his comrades die beside him, and to quite possibly never return? I would never resort to that."

*Facepalm*

"The children will not be leaving their families. There families left THEM remember? So many of these children become thugs on the street after 18 and we NEED to find them a better life because traditional methods aren't working. This program will put confidence in them and it's not like there not going to the EXACT same school's as other children."

[Playergamer]

"Yes, but we can get soldiers without resorting to conscription. Forcing a man to leave his family, leave his life, to see his comrades die beside him, and to quite possibly never return? I would never resort to that."

*Facepalm*

"The children will not be leaving their families. There families left THEM remember? So many of these children become thugs on the street after 18 and we NEED to find them a better life because traditional methods aren't working. This program will put confidence in them and it's not like there not going to the EXACT same school's as other children."

"I wasn't talking about the children. I was talking about the others this will lead to. After this passes, you'll feel more confident. You'll pass bill after bill, and eventually, national service. But, back to the children, I feel like they should at least have a chance to take some other path after school. Conscription, no matter how good you try to pass it off as, is not a good thing."

(Two more logical reasons I don't like this. 1: Cost of raising a child, in the US: $241,080. 2: 18 years.)