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[flazeo25]

Ministry of Advanced Defence

Spoiler: Votes (click to show/hide)

1.  Support - The budget outlined is perfectly reasonable.
2.  Support - We are happy for our country to get loans but hope that interest won't be to high.
3.  Support - We support our motion.
4.  Abstain - We have no feeling toward this proposal.
5.  Support (Finance) - We support a proper finance minister being able to effective mange budgeting.
6.  Oppose - We believe this ministry type would cause too much government redundancy.

Spoiler: Actions (click to show/hide)

Spend the money we have permitted to Ministry of Trust for guns.
Seize the forts and supply stations located in countryside, sell useless goods that aren't needed at them.
Have tax collectors start collecting tax this week.
Transfer $47,400 to Ministry of Engineering for uses of wages, upkeep and repairs.
Have all Combat Engineer, Naval Engineer and Aviation Technician transfer to be Technicians instead of their old job, meaning all three former positions are temporary disbanded.
Change Tax collector pay to $10/week and Auditor pay to $15/week.
Let 20 Auditor go if both Tax collectors and Auditor still remain under this ministry next turn.

[Research Division]
Hire 3 foreign scientists.
Assign 17 scientists to each project.
Change Scientist pay to $60/week.

[Development Division]
Raise Joint Chief Ranko pay to $120/week.
Hire 40 foreign gunsmiths at $45/week to teach technicians at 1-25 ratio.
Hire 550 more technicians.
Refurbish four assorted factories to produce weapons.
Set out quality control measures to improve quality of production.
Upgrade all current factory capacities if possible to host 50 more staff.

[Defence Force Division]
Have 400 patrolling soldiers, search countryside and other two cities for remaining loyalist pockets and either eliminate or capture them.
Have 200 stationed soldiers conduct investigations into royalty wealth to find any stashed treasures or wealth in Apland or overseas.
Have remaining patrolling soldiers watch and guard the borders.
Soldier weekly wage changed to $20/week

[Navy Division]
Spilt the marines into two 500 temporary groups and station them in two other cities to exert control over them.
The two groups are to also help out soldiers when they search the cities for loyalist pockets.
Marines weekly wage changed to $20/week

[Aircorps Division]
Pilot weekly wage changed to $20/week

Spoiler: Research Section (click to show/hide)

[Research Section]
ICL [Information and Communication Labs].
Begin research developments into making a computer.
Begin research development into creation of packet networking and packet-switched.
Begin research development into creation of fused silica and Optic fibre.

ATL [Arms and Transport Labs].
Continue research into modern sub machine gun prototype.
Begin research development into creation of synthetic material called kevlar.
Begin research development into creation of modern m16 assault rifle.

BEL [Bioengineering Labs].
Begin research development into creation of Measles vaccine.
Begin research development into creation of portable defibrillator.
Begin research development into creation of pacemaker.

Ministry of Advanced Defence -> Ministry of Truth

Dear Minister of Truth,

I have also assigned additional men to stay stationed in the other two citys for time being to exert our government control back over it and have other men also looking into traces of wealth or treasure the royalty may have hidden here or overseas in bank accounts.

Yours sincerely,
The Minister of Advance Defence

Status: Ready

[Nunzillor]

Ministry of Truth -> Ministry of Advanced Defence

Dear Minister of Advanced Defence,

Thank you, The Ministry of Truth is glad that we are retaking the land and country of the previous government.  I have heard rumblings of war, so we may soon need to have good control of all Aplandian assets and cities.

Yours sincerely,
Minister of Truth

[Dustan Hache]

Turn four:
Voting is ABSTAINED on all accounts by ministry of health for this turn.

Spoiler: Actions (click to show/hide)

Begin deploying excess medical personnel from the capital to the largest, non capital city, trainees included.
Repeat search and recruitment of somewhat trained medical personnel from the largest non capital city, recruiting any who show more than basic common sense in patient care using our current doctors and trainees as a comparison.
Seize any non-private hospitals and clinics outside of the capitol ASAP. Lets get a better scope of what we have to work with.

[flazeo25]

[Expunged]

[Ghazkull]

MoCaG -> Ministry of Truth

The Ministry of Corruption Issues is against American Military Involvement. Despite this very fine sum for a military base i think that such an act would put us into a corner we might not yet be prepared to be pushed in.

In regards for the Russian offer, i am against it. While Russian support would be welcome i see no point in making our country more communistic at this juncture

Regards,
Minister of Graft and Corruption Issues

Spoiler:  Votes (click to show/hide)

1. AYE
2.AYE
3.AYE
4.ABSTAIN
5.AYE (Finance)
6.NAY-> Reason being: we already have a Ministry of Knowledge, i don't see the point behind a Ministry of Education...besides we have too many Ministries going on as it stands.

Actions
1. Immediately stop the Mint. It has fulfilled its role in keeping the Ministries afloat for this turn.
2. Seize the Ministry of Securities remaining funds, it seems to be non-existant and the money is needed elsewhere.
3. Send the Mint to the newly established Ministry of Finance
4. Refurbish the Warehouse into a proper Government Compound. Administrative Offices, Training Facilities for the Commisariat, Prison Cells including advanced interrogation rooms and barracks.
5. Look into buying trucks for the Commisariat Squadrons so they don't have to footslog everywhere.
6. Commisariat Squads are to cease collecting taxes on their own and instead work closely together with the newly hired Tax Auditors
7. If any Commisariat Squads are not required with the tax collecting business or should prove to be otherwise superfluous they are to drive to the cities the Ministry of Advanced Defense has taken control of and to seize all government assets, government employees, government funds, vehciles, buildings, basically everything that once belonged to the government in those cities and catalogue it for later redistribution among all the Ministries.
8. Distribute any and all remaining funds of the Ministry among the Ministry of Health, Engineering, Agriculture, Knowledge, Commerce and Labour and of course Finance once its established (that doesnt leave much for each of you but its at least something until taxes start pouring in properly.
9. The Economic Advisor gets to figure out how effective our Fire Brigades are working and if more men/engines/training/funding is required in the Capital.



READY

[High tyrol]

Ministry of Agriculture
Votes

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1.abstain:reason:because I don't need a whole ten percent 6 or 8 would be fine
2.aye
3.aye
4.abstain
5.aye(finance)
6.abstain

Actions:
 
  1.continue have my men do what they where doing before

[TopHat]

Ministry of Engineering -> Ministry of Truth:

On the USSR/USA front, my recommendation would be that you inform the Russians of the American offer and see if they can come up with any actual figures. Ideally foreign intervention should be brought to a minimum if possible, but if unavoidable we may as well try to get the best deal.
I am also writing with a request - at the moment the workers of my - vital - facilities are working without payment and are likely to continue to do so until stable funding is secured. My request is that their heroic labours on behalf of Apland's people be reported in your paper. At the least this should improve worker morale and at best it may even result in some small donations from patriotic readers to help run the services in the short term, should you think asking for them worth a try.

Ministry of Engineering - All other Ministries:
Well, I hate to ask this, but right now my department needs two things: money and some form of motor transport. Money wise, $11,000 a week is required for basic upkeep, with an additional $12,000 a week for fuel, though this can be avoided for a week or two if we want to risk running into reserves. Add in staff costs - with 410 workers, 2 Foremen and 50 experts, will be at an absolute minimum $10,250 for the workers, ~$60-80 for the foremen, and $2000 for the experts, although this level can only be sustained for a week or two at most without losing important personnel. A bare minimum of $23,310 a week is thus required although this will need to be increased in weeks to come. A one-off cost of $18,000 will also need to be paid at some point in the near future for repair works, though this can be deferred. Since my Ministry has no means of gaining its own funding I must request this money from you. In return, please know that within a couple of weeks the Ministry's architectural expertise will be available to any Ministry which may need them.

My second request, a car, will be required to transport Ministry representatives to assess conditions at the Turstonkzy HEP plant and will be returned soon afterwards.

My thanks in advance;
- The Minister of Engineering.

[Nunzillor]

Ministry of Truth -> Ministry of Engineering

Dear Minister of Engineering,

That is an excellent idea, we will ask the Russians to provide specifics and mention the American offer.  We would also be quite willing to print news of your workers' heroism, collect donations on their behalf, and purchase one vehicle for you.

We will be spending all of our collected income thus far in initial expansion costs next week, so we cannot provide much in terms of cash right now, but with luck we will be able to provide you with some funding after we collect income next week.

Best wishes,
Minister of Truth

[flazeo25]

Ministry of Advanced Defence -> Ministry of Engineering

Dear Minister of Engineering,

In request of needing of funding my department after assessment has declared it's support to help your ministry. We have decided to set aside $47,400 to be transferred to your ministry to cover the costs for repairs, wages and upkeep. This is breakdown of what we come to from my joint chiefs assesstments:
$22,000 for repairs.
$13,430 for wages
$12,000 for upkeep.
$47,400 total

We hope this money will come in handy and if you have any futher needs please ask.

Yours sincerely,
The Minister of Advance Defence

[TopHat]

Ministry of Engineering -> Ministries of Truth and Advanced Defence:
Dear Ministers,
Many, many thanks for your support and best wishes for the future. I cannot express how much I appreciate this.
- The Minister of Engineering.

Ministry of Engineering -> Ministry of Criminality:
Dear Minister of Criminality,
I was considering your efforts to get prisoners working and suddenly realised that there may be potential for a joint project between our Ministries. At some point within the next couple of months I hope to get some sort of garbage collection system set in place in our capital and was wondering if you would be willing to provide the manpower required, although it may require sone strain on your guards' part. Estimates of manpower requirements are being conducted now, so I thought it best to ask if you would be willing to co-operate before planning progresses further.
Yours sincerely,
The Ministry of Engineering.

Spoiler: MoE Votes (click to show/hide)

1. Support
2. Support
3. Support
4. Support
5. Support; Finance
6. Abstain.

Spoiler: MoE actions (click to show/hide)

Use provided funds to pay upkeep and repairs first, then pay workers as much as possible (up to $50/week max, $60 for Foremen). Cut expert pay to $50/week, though stress that this is temporary.

Send a few Power station experts to the in the car gifted from Minitrue (hire a driver if absolutely necessary, $30/week) to assess the status of the Turstonkzy HEP plant (chat with the foreman) and inform them of the recent change of leadership. Then send them to do the same for any other state-owned utilities outside the capital.

Ask the foremen of any other state power plants/waterworks they know about, as well as for details of who they used to report to.

Get rough cost estimates of potentially modifying power plant C to incinerate waste instead and constructing a new waste-incineration plant. Also get more accurate cost and manpower estimates of setting up and running a system of weekly, door-to-door collection throughout the capital and deposition on landfill sites outside, with and without vans.

[hector13]

Ministry of Criminality

Spoiler: Votes (click to show/hide)

1. SUPPORT - this is a good basis for distributing taxes among our ministries, and it offers easy means to allow us to remove executors who are not up to the task.

2. SUPPORT

3. SUPPORT

4. SUPPORT

5. SUPPORT (Finance)

6. SUPPORT

Actions

Encourage the training officers to stagger their schedules so that at least 4 of them are heading teams of officers out on the streets at any one time. Should any of their students show aptitude for leading and have learned enough to operate on their own, phase in having those officers lead others while out on the beat so the Training Officers can dedicate themselves to teaching officers who have no or little training.

Increase the working time for the prisoners to 40hrs/week. Structure their day around work, so they can earn us more money learn to be useful citizens when their sentences are over.[/color

Enquire among Aplandian businessmen if they would like to contract our "labour force" to manufacture their goods. Initial terms offered will be:  training the prisoners to manufacture their goods; training foremen to organise the work (this will require an aptitude test, can't have crap foremen); and investing in expanding the workshops to provide better quality goods. In return, the manufactured goods will be "bought" by these businessmen at 75% of the average market price of the goods manufactured or 110% of the cost of manufacturing the goods, whichever is higher. ((be as arbitrary as you like with "manufacturing cost", I'm not looking to make things more complicated for you!))

Ask the National Bureau of Statistics to provide some market reasearch on the average prices of goods manufactured by Aplandian businessmen. Hopefully it's running properly... ((again, be arbitrary))

Re: intelligence officers visiting dissidents: do an extensive background check on the first gentleman (the intelligent one) though try not to scare him if it is necessary to interview him.

Release the vandal, he has done nothing wrong.

Allow the intelligence officers to use any police officers who are untrained and are not in training to further encourage donations from the wealthier (earning > $100/week) loyalists. $20/week/loyalist is a reasonable goal.

Have a non-violent crime task force set-up. It will be lead by 1 training officer and 80 of the most able students (who aren't ear-marked for leadership themselves) who will focus solely on investigating and arresting non-violent criminals.

Look into the cost of refurbishing the old prison into the Museum of Revolution.

Communcations

MoC ->MoCaG

As we appear to voting you to be the first Executor of our budget and are in the process of collecting taxes, I'd like to offer 365 of my police officers to aid you in that task.


MoC -> Minitrue

Re: Americans and Russians

I would prefer neither option. While we need the money, American military presence on our soil will mean we have to do what they want at the risk of "military intervention", and given our proximity to nations that are not on the best of terms with the Americans, this is not in our best interests.

I am less inclined to outright reject the Russian offer, though I would like to know more details. What are their intentions? How do they plan to go about making our government more "Communist"? What of our people, are they receptive to the idea of Communism?

A joint project

Would you be interested in helping me refurbish the old prison that MoCaG gave me into a museum of the tyranny of the previous government? It would allow us to teach our citizens of the Revolution! We could split the cost of refurbishing, and split any income it receives (after maintenance, obviously...) once it is up and running.


MoC -> Ministry of Engineering

Re: Garbage Collection

Of course I would be willing to help! I can provide any prisoners who do not qualify for our training program for work, the only sticking point would be any security costs to keep them from absconding. I can provide some prison guards to accompany any excursions, but I would like a small stipend to cover their wages. Say 33.3%, if that is agreeable?


READY

[Nunzillor]

Minitrue -> Ministry of Criminality

Dear Minister of Criminality,

It would seem that the consensus is to be wary of both offers, with a few ministers interested in fleshing out the Russian offer.  I will be providing more information as to the details of the Russian offer next week.  As to whether our people would support communistic policies... if they are truly loyal revolutionaries, they will support the revolutionary government.  If not... the public can be easily swayed.

Our ministry had the same idea for a museum, and we would indeed be glad to participate in this joint venture.  Our citizens must know of the heroic revolutionaries that fought against the fascist and brutal royalist regime, as well as the excesses and heavy-handed tactics of the king!  The terms are acceptable, but we must ask that we wait until next week to begin refurbishing and hiring staff.

Yours Truthfully,
The Minister of Truth

[Beneviento]

Ministry of Transportation
Votes:
1: Support
2: Abstain, we all seem against tying ourselves to Russia or America, why tie ourselves to another organization, especially when we have no specific need for large sums of cash.
3: Oppose, The Ministry of Transportation is ready to support the Stamp Duty Act alone, but it is already dealing with vehicle registration, and the Excise Act seems somewhat arbitrary.
4: Support
5: Support, Finance
6: Support

Actions
Hire an additional 10 Infrastructure Scouts, send ten to appraise the rail, road, canal, etc. routes to Trebon, and another ten to do the same with regard to Palushka. Keep the rest working on the map and appraising the connections to nearby cities and their population.
If funds are available purchase ten ARO vehicles, five for use by Infrastructure Scouts and five for Ministry Constables.
Establish an import duty of two percent on all imported cargo and send Constables to appraise the value of the ships currently in the commercial port and collect the duty.
Station twenty constables at the Port Authority.
Appraise land near the port for the possible construction of warehouses in the near future, and if funds are available purchase the most convenient land.
 
To: All other Ministries
Colleague Ministers,
My Scouts are moving across the country, mapping and appraising populations of cities, but this is not a substitute for a proper census. With your help, we can gain one of the most important pieces of information we can have about our nation. If you will contribute funding, we can hire census-takers under our joint commission to accomplish this.

Proposal
Divert five percent of national income for the next year to the National Bureau of Statistics, and mandate the hiring of at least one hundred census-takers and the beginning of a national census.

Ready

[Nunzillor]

Minitrue -> Ministry of Transportation

Dear Minister of Transportation,

Out of which ministry's budget would you propose that the 5% come out from?  Perhaps partially from the Ministry of Security?  Or do you mean all income, not just tax income?

Yours in Truth,
Minister of Truth

[Beneviento]

Ministry of Transportation -> Ministry of Truth
Dear Minister of Truth
My hope was that this five percent would be from the national budget under the Budget Act, which seems destined to pass at this point. I might suggest taking half a percent from each of the eleven ministries?