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/Arab Union of The Fertile Crescent/
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Zamdrieak
[list]THE PAKISTAN OBSERVER | أالأهرام[pre]
JANUARY- 2024 [/pre][/list]
[list][list][pre]بِسْمِ ٱللّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيم[/pre][sub][pre]In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
[list][list]$800 MILLION LITERACY PROJECT; PAKISTAN JOINS OSS; ANIME BANNED[/list][/list]
[list]| ISLAMABAD Imran Khan has announced an 800 million dollar literacy project to increase the literacy rate in order to create a literate, educated youth. The situation is rather dire, with a total literacy rate of 55%, being raised to an immediate concern for the future of this nation. This project has been divided into 2 parts, providing infrastructure, and providing scholarships. In some rural regions of Pakistan, schools are not in range, therefore making the journey dangerous for women, and less incentive in general for people to complete school. Therefore, by building more schools nearby, it will make it easier for parents to choose their sons and daughters going to school over work. So there will be thousands of new schools, including primary, secondary, and colleges built across rural areas, with a partial focus on Balochistan to prepare for the success of Gwadar, and because it is one of the most illiterate regions of the nation. The second part involves scholarships, where the toppers of standardized exams will receive scholarships to prestigious universities in Pakistan. There will also be another scholarship helping children in impoverished regions receive vital materials and uniforms needed for school, raising incentive throughout the year for secondary school. This concludes it, but more money may be added in the future.|
| Imran Khan signed the Astrakhan Treaty this month, making it official that Pakistan has joined the OSS. The OSS is an organization of former SGRI nations created after the tyrant died, leading to the dissolution of the SGRI. Pakistan has joined because of a vital part of it, former Afghanistan having been part of the SGRI a few years back, but under the exemption of Pakistan from open borders for citizens. This brings a new page in Russo-Pakistani relations, and the future looks bright for cooperation between the two nations.|
| Moving on, the Pakistani government has moved on with the decision to ban anime from the nation. In 2016, the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI), tried to ban anime from the nation, citing bad effects on children, specifically a famous cartoon named Doraemon. This was spearheaded by legislator Dr. Murad Rass, saying: Children are an easy target of Doraemon cartoons. These cartoons are having a negative impact on the educational and physical well-being of children...These dramas and cartoons are having a negative impact on Pakistani children. Although it failed in 2016, this year, with some Taliban support and heavy Islamist presence in parliament, it has pushed through, making the ban official. However, piracy of anime is still a big problem, and will have to be combated in the future. |[/list]
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]I MADE THE LITERACY RP OKAY ARE YOU GUYS HAPPY NOW[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
Vancouver Straits / Peking Zhongguo
Yarosluv[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Yarosluv, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Asharken, Pontianus, Nileia, Vancouver Straits, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Abessinienreich, New Provenance, Malagasia Bomoko, Zamdrieak, New Ashtown
| KINGDOM OF SPAIN |
| GOBIERNO IMPERIAL DE ESPAÑA |
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The Catalan Crisis: Rocking Spanish stability for the past eight years
| The Catalan Crisis, or the 2017-2018 Spanish constitutional crisis, is an ongoing political conflict between the elected national government of Spain and the Catalan Parliament, who voted in favor of independence from Spain in 2017. The crisis has been a source of controversy, division, and conflict in Spain over the past eight years. Catalonia's status of autonomy was suspended for almost seven months by the central government in Madrid after the failed attempt to break away from Spain in 2017. With over eight years of conflict and political division, is it even possible for the scars to heal and grudges be mended? The question was answered recently when Prime Minister Augustina Torres, head of the central government in Madrid and formerly a leading politician running for Catalonia, visited Barcelona, the de facto capital of the autonomous region, in late January 2025. |
| In a referendum on October 1, 2017, a referendum declared illegal by Spain's Constitutional Court, about 90% of Catalan voters backed independence from Spain. However, the turnout for the referendum was only 43%. In a second referendum held in December 2024 on the same question, only 47% of Catalan voters backed independence from Spain, with a turnout of 54%. To one's eyes, it seems that support for independence from Spain in Catalonia, at least on paper, has dwindled steadily. Many political analysts and experts attribute the drop in support for Catalan independence to Augustina Torres, a Catalan politician turned nationwide celebrity who was elected Prime Minister of Spain in early 2024. Previous Spanish government administrations, most specifically that of PSOE party leader and now-Deputy PM Pedro Sanchez, have now been blamed for stirring up trouble, controversy, and nationalism in Catalonia in their efforts to crush pro-independence movements and parties in the autonomous region. Most high-ranking Spanish politicians like Sanchez were born in strongly pro-Madrid regions such as Madrid itself and other outlying regions within the mountainous region of the Spanish capital. This has caused these politicians, who wield significant political and military power over the Catalans, to be ignorant of Catalan wishes, aspirations, and interests. |
| The field changed completely when Augustina Torres, a young yet experienced politician who just came from representing Catalonia in the Congress of Deputies, was elected Prime Minister, aka the head of the government, of the Kingdom of Spain during the 2024 elections. Having come from serving and living within the autonomous region of Catalonia, Prime Minister Torres was and is supportive of Catalan ideals and nationalism, but was and is a strong opponent of Catalan independence. Following the abdication of King Felipe VI as King of Spain, Prime Minister Torres went on a five day tour of the Catalan region in order to ensure that 'unity and prosperity continue to flourish even in this time of great sorrow'. Some observers stated that the true reason behind the tour was to ensure that the Catalans, who had a long history of hating on the Spanish monarchy for being pro-unity and anti-independence, did not stir up trouble during the transition process from King Felipe to his heir apparent, Princess Leonor. |
| During the tour, specifically in Barcelona, the capital of the Catalan autonomous region, Prime Minister Torres was, surprisingly enough, greeted by large and cheering crowds rather than anti-government protests. In an interview with local reporters in Barcelona, Prime Minister Torres stated that, 'I was pleasantly surprised by the warm and kind crowds that greeted me here upon my arrival'. Support for Princess Leonor as Queen of Spain was also reportedly high, as according to official referendum statistics taken in the days after King Felipe's abdication, 69% of the Catalan people were in favor of Princess Leonor being crowned Queen. According to sources on the ground in the region, this was due to the fact that Leonor 'was and is not a conservative, but a liberal progressive sort of royal', said one Catalan civilian. Senators in the Cortes Generales' upper house (the Senate) expressed their great interest in seeing what sort of peace and unity Princess Leonor could bring to the Catalan region following her coronation in February. |
| Our original question was whether the scars and grudges created by the Catalan Crisis could be healed and mended. Could it? In the current political atmosphere Spain lives in, with liberal progressives leading the charge for liberty, unity, and solidarity, the answer is yes. It's possible. But, like with everything political, the path to achieving such a peace is long and hard, and it will most certainly take years and possibly decades to achieve the goal of peace and unity within the Catalan autonomous region. |
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[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Free as Always! Detailed, Creative, Storytelling![/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
Vancouver Straits / Peking Zhongguo
Yarosluv[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Amsterwald, Asharken, Pontianus, Ranponian, Nileia, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Abessinienreich, Malagasia Bomoko, New Ashtown
Yes
Ranponian
[sub]| President Macron | "Wonderful monsieur Prime Minister. Now aside from the monetary issue is there anything else you would like to discuss?"[/sub]
Paramountica, Ranponian, Bulgarian Romanian Republic
[list]January 2025
[sub]Tuskism[/sub][/list]
[list][list]𝐆𝐀𝐙𝐄𝐓𝐀 𝐖𝐘𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐂𝐙𝐀[/list][/list]
TUSKISM IS THE NEW IDEOLOGY THAT POLAND WILL FOLLOW UNDER PRESIDENT TUSK'S PATH OF LIBERALISM
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1560003
Paramountica, Rutannia, Amsterwald, Pontianus, Ranponian, Nileia, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Abessinienreich, New Ashtown
I am seriously regretting this challenge I gave myself. XD
But I must trudge on. :)
Paramountica, Asharken, Mesuvia
[list][list][pre]| The Salvation Program is established / GEA established - Se establece el Programa de Salvación / Se establece GEA |
| United States of México |
| J A N U A R Y / 2 0 2 5 |[/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][list][sub]| Salvation Program - Programa de Salvación |[/sub][/list][/list][/list]
[sub] The Cartels held a strange place in Mexican society that could not be taken out with solely a gun. Obrador held this belief strongly with his saying during his campaign Abrazos, no puñetazos or Hugs not punches. In many Mexican communities the cartel held the status of a semi-lawful authority; they would handle petty crimes to serious crimes in the community and keep some of the population safe if it provided good PR to them. They would dish out punishments that the proper authorities couldnt or were unwilling too. Another problem would be Cartels were family of the community, no matter their crimes they were still Familia. The goal of Obrador was to stop young men from joining and those wanting a way out of the gangs, a way out in safety and a new life. This soft approach would be alongside military action to aid in pushing gang members to leave these organizations.[/sub]
[list][list][list][sub]| The Goals and tactics of the Salvation Program - Las metas y tácticas del programa de salvación |[/sub][/list][/list][/list]
[sub]-Goal-[/sub]
[sub]The goal of the Programa de Salvación was to bring low rank gang members and non violent drug offenders who are currently in prison out of the organizations and reintroduce them to a legal lifestyle for them and their family. They would work in legal industries and be safe from retaliation.[/sub]
[sub]-Tactics-[/sub]
[sub]The Programa de Salvación would achieve this goal similar to the Witness Protection Program in the United States but this would be open to almost any low level gang member without the need to inform against the organization they are a part of. Those in the program would be moved across México to completely remove them from community ties that most likely kept them in the organization. They would be given new identities and would gain government assistance in finding stable employment in jobs such as mining, agriculture, and manufacturing.[/sub]
[list][list][list][sub]| GEA created in Veracruz meeting - Se crea GEA en reunión de Veracruz |[/sub][/list][/list][/list]
[sub]A meeting between three Latin American nations would be held in the historic Mexican city of Veracruz on the eastern coast of Mexico. Much would be spoken about at this meeting, but the main topic of this would be about the creation of a elite anti-drug force able to operate in these three nations signing the deal. Agents would be from these nations and many bases of operation would be established in problem regions. The nations of La Plata Nevbrejnovitz, Gran Colombia Lemlar, and Mexico would establish the Grupo de Elite Antidroga more commonly referred to as the GEA. It has been rumoured that shortly after the decision to create the group agents have been sent undercover to the Mexican city of Cuiliacán the heart of the Sinaloa Cartel. The GEA would rely heavily on undercover tactics and would be picked from the best of the best from each of the three participating nations.[/sub]
[spoiler= VIVA LA MÉXICO
[sub]La esperanza de México[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
Vancouver Straits / Peking Zhongguo
Victoria Harbor[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Nevbrejnovitz, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Philanialle, Asharken, Ranponian, Nileia, Connomia, Vancouver Straits, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Abessinienreich, New Provenance, Drully, New Ashtown
He's learning
kingdom news
Security alert was issued and Queen Margareta cancelled her planned trip to France after her staff got a mysterious note saying if any monarch stepped foot in france they would pay with there lives ,
The Queen discussed it with the prime minister and her security and they thought it best for her to cancel the french state visit until they review the situation and deem it safe.
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Free as Always! Detailed, Creative, Storytelling![/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
Vancouver Straits / Peking Zhongguo
Yarosluv[/spoiler]
Somerania, Abessinienreich, New Provenance, New Ashtown
I broke to chain cause y'all aren't funny like that
Yarosluv
*breathes fast*
Caedmare
Post self-deleted by Caedmare.
Meanwhile In Caedmare:
"main battle tanks stalk the woods of Caedmare in search of Golden Heraldic Lions."
"Human sacrifice is legal"
Yup, seems African enough.
Youre acting like ur funny lmfaooo
Yarosluv, Caedmare
cope
Caedmare
*whistles when Johnny comes marching home*
Ranponian, Zamdrieak
Khartoum, The United Federal Republic of Sudan
January, 2025 - Union Declared with Uganda's Entry
In the capital of a new Union, Khartoum, residents have gone out on the streets to celebrate both the anniversary commemorating 69 years of Sudan's existence as a free and independent nation as well as
The proclamation of a new Sudanese nation, the United Federal Republic (UFR). The UFR had come as a result of the Union Deal established by the Sudanese and Ugandan Governments marking the beginning of Uganda's long process of integration into the Sudanese Union, a Union that has not been exactly defined as a Union between Sudan And Uganda, but among the four distinct yet united regions of Sudan being the previously existent South Sudan Region with its capital in Juba, the Darfur Region with its capital in Nayala, and then the newly added North Sudan Region with its capital in Sennar, and finally the newly annexed territories of the Uganda Region with its capital in Kampala.
The New Parliament
The 4 regions would be given each one representative in the upper house of the Sudanese Parliament, the Council of States. Also added to the Council would be 24 newly added seats, with two seats representing one new state that has entered the Union. The 12 new states drawn out of the Ugandan unification process. Each state has also been appointed a specific number of representative for a total of 150 new seats to be added from the Sudanese National Assembly (NA) which do not take into count the 26 added seats from the 2023 census.
The New States:
Kitguma (KG) - 12 Seats in the NA with a population around 3 million. The new State's capital is at the city of Kitguma that the State was named after.
North Uganda (NU) - 12 seats in the NA which also has a population around 3 million. The new State's capital is sitting in Gulu.
West Nile (WT) - 12 seats in the NA and also has a population around 3 million. The new State's capital is in Arua. However the State's name might change in the future.
West Uganda (WU) - 14 seats in the NA with a population around 3.5 million. The new State's capital is located in Fort Portal.
Albertia (AL) - 17 seats in the NA with a population around 4.25 million. The new State's capital would be situated at Hoima. The state had been named after the lake that it sits on, Lake Albert.
Ankole (AK) - 14 seats in NA with a population also probably around 3.5 million. The new State's capital is situated in Mbarara. The state is named after the inhabitants that make up the majority of the area.
East Uganda (EU) - 14 seats in NA with a similar population of 3.5 million. The new State's capital is situated in Mbale. The state might however see similar military activity to that in West Darfur given its size and the shared border with Galla.
Kyoga (KY) - 13 seats in the NA with a population at around 3.25 million. The new state's capital is at Soroti. The state has been named after the large lake the almost entirely sits within its borders, Lake Kyoga.
Victoria (VC) - 18 seats in the NA, the largest of the region giving them a total population of 4.5 million. The new State's capital site in Jinja. The state is obviously named after Africa's largest lake, Lake Victoria.
Buganda (BG) - 15 seats in the NA with a population of around 3.75 million. The new State's capital is located at Masaka. The state is named after the pre-colonial nation of Buganda.
Central Uganda (CU) - 15 seats in the NA with a similar population of 3.75 million. The new State's capital sits at Kiboga.
Kampala (KP) - 15 seats in the NA with yet another similar population close to 3.75 million however densely populated. The new State's capital and regional capital of Uganda is located at Kampala which the State is named after.
In total the new Parliament consisting of the already existing 177 seats, along woth the 26 additional seats up for grabs in the elections from the 2023 census. And additional 171 seats from Uganda that would too be up for elections in July of year. In the Council of States house, 24 seats are up for grabs in the elections as well. With the new Sudanese Parliament set up at 374 total seats in National Assembly and up to 90 seats in the Council of States as the Union now consists of 43 States in total, all that was left was the official dissolution of the Ugandan Republic as a sovereign nation.
As The sun set on the first day of January, and as parts of the nation celebrate independence day with picnics and fireworks, crowds have gathered at the grounds of the Sudanese Parliament as they laid their eyes on the large screens showing coverage of the Union Declaration happening inside, another screen also showed various live clips of the Ugandan Capital Kampala as it was full with celebrations. Earlier in the day a regiment of the Sudanese Land Armed Forces had performed a parade on the streets of the city cheered by thousands of onlookers. And then with the setting of the sun, the Ugandan Regional Parliament comes together in an unanimous vote to officially dissolve the Independent nation og Uganda and declare the body's allegiance to the United Federal Republic of Sudan. With the end of the vote signed off by Uganda's top officials along with Prime Minister Salva Kiir who had the documents signed in the hospital. Outside the Parliament building as well as other government facilities, a Sudanese flag would be raised above the pole in a ceromony as the Sudanese Anthem we are the soldiers of God is played by the Republican Guard Kampala Branch. Thousands celebrated in both Khartoum and Kampala as the flag was raised symbolizing Sudan's guard over Uganda and over a free people. With the end of the Ceremony, Uganda as a free nation has now become an autonomous region of the Sudanese State. After the celebrations, the Sudanese Parliament convenes and cast their vote on the Articles of the Union which shall officially finalise the formation of the new United Federal Republic. With yet another unanimous vote of 177 Yes to 0 No in the National Assembly and 64 Yes to 0 No in the Council of States, Speaker of the Assembly Yumma Falestine would stand on the floor as she gets ready to broadcast to Sudanese people and the world the declaration of the Union.
[list]Speaker Falestine :| Respected members of the the Assembly and the Council, and to the Respected citizens outside on Parliament grounds and to those watching or listening from home at this moment or even in the future. To the estimated 93 million citizens of our new Nation it is woth the greatest pride and honor to announce to you. That this body has unanimously with all confidence passed the Articles of the Union hereby granting the powers vested in me to give you an official declaration. To the people from the Red Sea to Darfur and from Lake Nubia to Lake Victoria and to the nations of the world I Speaker of the National Assembly of the Sudanese Parliament Yumma Falestine hereby Declare with the Absorption of Uganda into Sudan, the formation of the United Federal Republic of Sudan on this night of January 1st, 2025 hereby officially changing the title of this nation. Congratulations to our new citizens and may we together see our Union through the tides of history as we carry our sacred light of democracy and liberty. Long may our Union live and long may the Republic live!"[/list]
And with the end of her speech on live television, crowds in Khartoum burst into excitement and joy as cheers screams and blow horns fill the streets, in Kampala though it was not as loud as Khartoum, there was still celebrations as Sudanese flags decorated the street along with the regional Ugandan flag. The celebrations would continue into the night as the noise died down by next morning.
As many Ugandans began their neutralization process, good news has come that they would be expecting their citizenship before July in time for them to participate in their first elections.
In other news, an envoy of Sudanese Diplomats in the United Nations General Assembly at Manhattan, New York have delivered a request for the United Nations and world leaders (United Nations Un) hoping for a global recognition of the new United Sudanese Federal Republic and their unification with Uganda as legitimate and legal in the eyes of the world thus putting Uganda and it's people under the administration and care of Khartoum.
some last stats of the UFRS
Total Population: 93,904,337
GDP (2025): $354 Billion
Total Area: 2,746,851 Square KM
Common languages: Arabic (Official), English (official), Swahili, Nubian, Beja, Nuer, Dinka, Fur, Shilluk
Religion: Islam, Christianity, Animism
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1406472
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1512508l
[spoiler=[sub]no, I didn't double read my post, why?[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
Vancouver Straits / Peking Zhongguo
Yarosluv[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Nevbrejnovitz, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Ranponian, Vancouver Straits, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Abessinienreich, New Provenance, Mesuvia, Caedmare, New Ashtown
PARLIAMENTARY SESSION OPENS WITH TALKS ON WAR AND FERTILITY
[list][sup]MILITARY ACTION AND PRO-BIRTH PROGRAMS CONSIDERED
FINLANDWINTER 202425[/sup][/list]
With the opening of the first 2025 session of the Finnish Parliament in February, speakers from all corners of Finnish politics introduced a series of policy proposals and objectives for the year ahead. In the first few gatherings of the Parliament, policy debates raged mostly over two subjects: fertility incentives and military intervention in Sweden. Sweden, which has seen a violent insurrection over the past several years, was brought up by the Committee for Cultural Survival in that the violence there threatens Finnic and Samic peoples in the northeast of Sweden. Peacekeeping measures for the sake of keeping order in Sweden were seen positively by most quarters of the legislature, and a military move by the Finnish Armed Forces is likely.
The second subject, pronatalism, has been thrust into the Parliament several times over the last several years. With a falling population that could only be currently sustained by immigrationseen skeptically by manythe idea of providing stipends or other incentives to those who have children has been put forth by parliamentarians in the more conservative wings of the National Coalition. Discussions on the matter are likely to carry on for some time, as austere politicians rage against a budget increasingly strained by existing expenditures, new cultural programs and peacekeeping efforts to come.
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[list][list][pre]| Sorrow in Nogales - Dolor en Nogales |
| Nogales / State of Sonora / United States of México |
| F E B R U A R Y / 2 0 2 5 |[/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][list][sub]| 44 Calle 4 Oeste - Solidaridad - Nogales / 7:30pm / Snowy |[/sub][/list][/list]
[sub]A snowfall has begun to blanket the desert border town of Nogales, especially hard in the hilly neighborhood of Solidaridad. A beat up gold 1990 Toyota Corolla made its way up the hills dodging the potholes, inside was 3 middle age males Nico González, Juan Pablo Gálvez, and Joshua Curbelo all of them good friends and more importantly coworkers. The 3 men had the same job they were social workers working with the Programa de Salvación in Nogales unknown to Nico he had begun to help the son of a soldier in the Gente Nueva, an elite group in the Sinaloa Cartel. They had just that day finalized the paperwork to move the son of the soldier named Alex Mina who was only 13 and had already been forced to take the life of 2 people by his father. The Programa de Salvación snuck him onto a bus and sent him too Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas. This angered the father and unknown to the social workers a black SUV has been following them since the parked in a Pemex to get gas and some drinks. The Toyota Corolla chugged along up the hill while the black SUV speed around them and blew past them driving out of view.[/sub]
[list][sub]| Nico González : Driver |[/sub][/list]
[sub]..I hate the people that drive like that, like they cant wait 2 minutes.[/sub]
[list][sub]| Joshua Curbelo : Front Passenger side |[/sub][/list]
[sub]Calm down cabron, youll give yourself a heart attack with how mad you get driving.[/sub]
[list][sub]| Nico González : Driver |[/sub][/list]
[sub]Ay ay, i guess youre right dickhead. Who drives a car like that in this neighborhood either? That mierda was all clean, I could see my own reflection in the bumper jajaja[/sub]
[list][sub]| Juan Pablo Gálvez : Backseat passenger |[/sub][/list]
[sub]Juan would be pale white as he noticed something the others didnt seem to notice.[/sub]
[sub]That car didnt have any plates [/sub]
[list][sub]| Nico González : Driver |[/sub][/list]
[sub]Once up the hill and hearing what Juan said he would quickly pull over and turn off the lights in the car in a panic. A silence fell in the car as they wondered the implications of what Juan just said.[/sub]
[sub]Are you sure? I-I-I thought I saw something..[/sub]
[list][sub]| Joshua Curbelo : Front Passenger side |[/sub][/list]
[sub]Yeah cabron maybe you are just freaking yourself out?[/sub]
[sub]Joshua said nervously trying to reassure himself that Juan was mistaken.[/sub]
[list][sub]| Juan Pablo Gálvez : Backseat passenger |[/sub][/list]
[sub]Yes, Im f*cking sure. Its the same car I saw when we were at the Pemex. I just didnt want to freak myself out.[/sub]
[list][sub]| Nico González : Driver |[/sub][/list]
[sub]Güeyes! Its okay we are almost to Joshuas place, your wife is at her moms with the girls right?[/sub]
[list][sub]| Joshua Curbelo : Front Passenger side |[/sub][/list]
[sub]Aye they are[/sub]
[list][sub]| Nico González : Driver |[/sub][/list]
[sub]Good then we will stop at your house and spend the night there and start driving your car to work tomorrow.[/sub]
[list][list][list][sub]| The Curbelo Residence - 62 Calle 5 Oeste - Solidaridad - Nogales / 7:35pm / Snowy |[/sub][/list][/list]
[sub]Nico, Joshua, and Juan would park in the driveway of Joshuas house and would begin to cover up the car with a tarp. As they were doing this the Black SUV would creep onto the street and turn on their flood lights, flushing the street full of a bright light that nearly blinded the three men. The men covered their eyes and quickly began to move towards Joshuas front door, a small way to gain some sense of safety. To their dismay the SUVs doors would loudly open and the sounds of footsteps and metal clanking would be heard and the sound of a megaphone coming on would ring in their ears loud enough to wake up the whole street.[/sub]
[list][sub]| El Muerte : Gente Nueva Soldier |[/sub][/list]
[sub]No no, Cabrons where are you going? Stay out here we need to talk.[/sub]
[sub]Joshua would rush to the door and try to unlock it, but would drop his keys.[/sub]
[list][sub]| El Muerte : Gente Nueva Soldier |[/sub][/list]
[sub]Ay! Stop dont make me drive all the way to Encinos[/sub]
[sub]Joshua would freeze as he heard the name of the neighborhood, his mother-in-law and where his wife and kids were at this moment. The guys would slowly move away from the door and put their hands behind their head knowing the drills in these kinds of things. All they could see was the silhouettes of 5 men in tactical gear carrying a RPK, a M1014, a M249, and M-16s. The men began begging for them to be let go even offering the men their money and cars saying they have no business with them. The Gente Nueva soldiers would laugh as they raised their weapons.[/sub]
[list][sub]| El Muerte : Gente Nueva Soldier |[/sub][/list]
[sub]You Chingados, you stuck your nose in my life and took my son. You brought this upon yourself.[/sub]
[sub]Seeing their fate in front of them the men decided to run for their lives. Splitting off from each other Juan and Nico would run to their left and Joshua would run to jump over his fence into his backyard. The second they moved though the Gente Nueva would open fire, drowning Joshuas house and nearby houses in a hail of deafening gunfire.[/sub]
[list][list][list][sub]| Aftermath of the Solidaridad Shooting |[/sub][/list][/list]
[sub]The bodies of the three men were left in an unrecognizable mess as the Gente Nueva emptied all their rounds into the brave men who put their lives on the line to save Mexico. Police wouldnt enter the neighborhood until the morning as although the intense gunfire was heard across the city the closest residents were too scared to pick up the phone to call the police there. A unit was finally dispatched to investigate the scene the next day at 11am. The scene was dreadful with the Curbelo residence riddled with bullet holes the same with surrounding homes. As usual the scene was graffitied by Narco graffiti with CDS for the Sinaloa Cartel painted on the Curbelo residence. Gunfire was reported to be heard all the way in Nogales, Arizona Paramountica as 166 rounds were estimated to be fired into the men. A vigil was held in Solidaridad attended by many in the neighborhood and protected by 45 heavily armed Mexican Army soldiers. In the next week El Muerte was shot dead in a shootout against the La Línea gang in Ciudidad Juárez. 4 were killed in the shooting with one being a neighbor of Joshua Curbelo hit by a stray bullet.[/sub]
[spoiler= VIVA LA MÉXICO
[sub]La esperanza de México[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
Vancouver Straits / Peking Zhongguo
Victoria Harbor[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Canovia, Nevbrejnovitz, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Asharken, Ranponian, Nileia, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Mesuvia, New Ashtown
| KINGDOM OF SPAIN |
| GOBIERNO IMPERIAL DE ESPAÑA |
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Spain begins preparations for crowning of Princess Leonor ahead of royal coronation on February 19
| As the end of the first month of 2025 approaches, official preparations orchestrated by the Spanish government, mainly the Ministry of the Interior, for the crowning of Princess Leonor of Spain began gaining steam when Prime Minister Augustina Torres returned from her tour of Catalonia earlier today to chair the government-appointed committee in charge of all the necessary preparations for the historic event. His Majesty King Felipe VI, the current monarch and head of state of Spain who announced his abdication earlier in the month due to health concerns, has stated from his hospital bed in Madrid that it is to be expected that his 'recovery will be swift' and his attendance to his daughter's coronation 'will most likely be guaranteed'. Other high-profile attendees to the coronation include President Emmanuel Macron from the French Republic, Emperor Naruhito of the Empire of Japan, Jose Luis Zapatero, Mariano Rajoy, both former Prime Ministers of Spain, as well as countless other Spanish politicians from all over the country. |
| In terms of actual preparations, the Congress of Deputies of Spain (Palacio de las Cortes in Spanish), the official seat of the Cortes Generales of Spain, is currently undergoing preparations for the historic event. The Palacio de las Cortes was last used for a Spanish royal coronation in 2014 when Felipe VI was crowned King of Spain. Surprisingly enough, only eleven years after his coronation, his daughter and successor will be crowned in the exact same spot. While regular day-to-day legislative proceedings continue to go normally within the palace halls, preparations outside, which include a vigorous cleaning of windows, rooftops, and prominent pillars, have begun to take place. Public tours into the palace will be halted on the 25th of January, five days ahead of a scheduled security inspection by the Guardia Civil and the Madrid police in order to ensure the building is secure for the coming event. |
| Following the formal coronation at the stroke of midnight on the 19th of February, a 'public ceremony' will be held later in the day at twelve o'clock in the afternoon wherein the new monarch, in this case Princess Leonor, will speak to the Cortes Generales for the first time, before participating in a parade through the streets of Madrid as mandated by Spanish tradition. The new Queen of Spain will then speak in front of the crowds at the Palace of Zarzuela, the official residences of the Spanish royal family. The Ministry of the Interior confirmed that high-profile attendees such as President Macron, Emperor Hirohito, and the former Spanish Prime Ministers will be attending both the formal coronation and the public ceremony and parade later in the day. The preparation committee in charge of 'setting up the scene' for the coronation in the 19th of February has yet to announce whether or not high-profile attendees will be participating in the parade in some form. |
| The security detail for the coronation, while details haven't been fully disclosed to the public for obvious reasons, is also supposedly going to be stepped up due to the importance of some of the high-profile attendees such as the head of state of France and the leading monarch of the Empire of Japan, both considerably close Spanish allies. Entry into the 'central zone', or the rough 3 kilometer sphere around the Palacio de las Cortes, will be severely restricted to chosen observers, press officers, and Spanish citizens with no criminal record, according to official police documents. While the wider Spanish public will of course be allowed to watch as the parade moves through the streets of Madrid, the Madrid Municipal Police will be deploying anti-bomb squadrons and anti-terrorism units to ensure that 'no disruptions occur during the length of the ceremony'. |
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[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Free as Always! Detailed, Creative, Storytelling![/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
Vancouver Straits / Peking Zhongguo
Yarosluv[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Philanialle, Asharken, Pontianus, Ranponian, Nileia, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Abessinienreich, Zamdrieak, New Ashtown
Kingdom of Nepal | नेपाल अधिराज्य
February 2025
[list]Nepali Film Star Kidnapped[/list]
| Lobsang Dorje, Nepali-born Bollywood star, was found missing around his home in a wealthy suburb of Kathmandu. Authorities suspect he was kidnapped, due to evidence at the crime scene, such as broken fences. Dorje, a prominent Sherpa and pro-Tibetan Independence activist, had made many enemies over the years, but nobody ever expected him to be kidnapped. Due to Dorjes activism, some theories suggest a political motive to the kidnapping; pro-Tibetan activists have been known to disappear, either at the behest of the pro-Chinese NCP (Nepali Communist Party) government, or, allegedly, by Chinese agents, as was the case for Aadarsh Pokharel, a Twitter activist from Nepal who was found dead in a gutter in Lhasa. Authorities have not yet pinpointed any major suspects, but some politicians claim that agents of Peking Zhongguo are behind the kidnapping. |
[list]Sher Bahadur Deuba Sworn In As Prime Minister[/list]
| Sher Bahadur Deuba of the Nepali Congress party (NC) was sworn in as Prime Minister by Parliament. He was Prime Minister last from 2017-2018, and served multiple other periods as well before. The past six years of rule by the fractured NCP brought economic stagnation and decline, as well as what many pundits call an over reliance on Peking Zhongguo. Chinese technology and sponsored infrastructure dominate Nepals economy, often stifling local businesses. The Nepali Congress promised a turn away from China, and moving Nepal away from a tourism and agriculture-based economy. The NC took a majority in Parliament by themselves, with no coalition partners, and Deuba is poised to be solidly in control of parliamentthe only potential hindrance to passing laws is the President; Pushpa Kamal Dahal. |
| Dahal, known as Prachanda, is an ex-Maoist insurgent fighter from the Nepali Civil War in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He is the head of the Maoist wing of the NCP, and the current President, and has stated his opposition to Deuba and the NC, and claimed that the recent election was rigged by pro-Indian agitators and the [Nepali] Congress party. He did not show up at the swearing inthe first President to not show up in Nepali history. A leaked email sent from Prachanda to the NCP leadership stated his plan to prevent Deuba from accomplishing anything, at the expense of Nepals growth. Prachanda could pose a bigger threat to Deuba and the Nepali Congress than Peking Zhongguo or Nosautempopulus ever could. |
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Free as Always! Detailed, Creative, Storytelling![/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
Vancouver Straits / Peking Zhongguo
Yarosluv[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Yarosluv, Rutannia, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Philanialle, Asharken, Ranponian, Nileia, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Abessinienreich, New Provenance, Malagasia Bomoko
[list][list][list][pre]RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
FRENCH BUREAUCRACY
MINISTÈRE DES AFFAIRES ÉTRANGÈRES[/pre][/list]
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FOREIGN MINISTRY: MACRON SIGNALS FOR VISIT TO ROMANIA (Bulgarian Romanian Republic)
[sub]VTH REPUBLIC | PARIS, 2025 [/sub][/list]
[sub]| HELM OF DIPLOMACY, MINISTÈRE DES AFFAIRES ÉTRANGÈRES - | President Emmanuel Macron has recently signaled that he would be open to a state visit to the Kingdom of Romania and a meeting with Queen Margareta. The President also intends to visit the joint military facilities in the country and spend time with some of the 70,000 French troops currently stationed there. Since the early 2000's France has viewed Romania as key strategic partner and has invested billions of euros into it's defenses and military infrastructure in an effort to counter Russian aggression. It is hoped that a renewing of that friendship will see further progress and cooperation between the two nations in an era of peace and stability. President Macron also hinted at making significant investments into Romania's economy and civilian infrastructure. | [/sub]
[list]______[/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE!
VIVE LA FRANCE!
VIVE LA MACRON![/pre][/list][/list]
[list][spoiler=[sub]𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐍
𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐘[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
Zamdrieak[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Rutannia, Nevbrejnovitz, Amsterwald, Pontianus, Ranponian, Nileia, Bulgarian Romanian Republic, Somerania, Abessinienreich, New Provenance, Caedmare, Zamdrieak
CENTROAMERICAN LEADERSHIP EXPANDS FROM BIG FIVE TO BIG SIX, INTRODUCES NEW FURLOUGH SYSTEM
FEBRUARY 2025
In a 4 to 1 Vote, the Big Five has decided to expand its ranks to include one further Corporation : Centromerico Refining Group. As a result Centromerico joins the ranks of the United Fruit Company, Standard Fruit Company, Cuyamel Fruit Company, United Mineral Corporation & Solis Residential Development. The move came as CFC and UMCs income rates were declining in terms of the ratio to other Companies, and thus it would have been a real threat that one of them would be removed from the Big Five due to having declined as a firm, instead adding Centromerico they remain part of the largest 6 Companies. The sole negative vote came from UFC which would itself have been positively affected if CFC was removed. As a result of the change one more interest group and voice has been added to the Group, degrading the focus on agriculture even more as now half of all Firms within the Group are no longer fruit related, a trend that is sure to continue long term.
As their first act as an enlarged structure however, they voted and passed (4 to 2) a new system for Workers Furlough. That being whenever a worker is unable to work for longer periods of time due to sickness, pregnancy or other issues (such as covid which has mostly subsided). During these periods it is normal in most countries that payments such as mortgage, credit card bills and other utility payments continue. Instead in Centroamerica what is to be done will decrease homelessness quite dramatically as it removes any obligation to pay for utilities and mortgages during Furlough. Instead, for each month in Furlough, a month is simply added on the back end of payments. If an individual has 12 years and 2 months left on his mortgage and goes on furlough for 5 months, he will now still have 12 years and 2 months of mortgage to pay however the end of payment date shall be pushed backwards. As a result people will not have their homes seized from them immediately if they are unable to work for whatever reason. This should increase stability of payments as most individuals who are unable to pay their credit will default in any case, and as such it has given a net of stability to creditor and lender alike.
It is an awkward situation that while the now Big Six was searching for an effective way to combat homelessness and increase reliability of credit payments, they actually stumbled on a policy that is not only immensely popular but more progressive than most other Nations in the world. Of course this is by no means a precedent, but merely a positive coincidence that some Nations could perhaps take note from.
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Free as Always! Detailed, Creative, Storytelling![/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
Vancouver Straits / Peking Zhongguo
Yarosluv[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Yarosluv, Rutannia, Nevbrejnovitz, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Nileia, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Abessinienreich, New Provenance, Caedmare, Malagasia Bomoko, Zamdrieak
I finally am home from work and have a day off tomorrow. Maybe I can push a post in there. :)
Paramountica, Victoria Harbor, Ranponian, Nileia, Somerania, Universitatis
[list]February 2025
[sup]2nd Engagement of Mako[/sup][/list]
[list][list]𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐒𝐀𝐇𝐈 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐔𝐍[/list][/list]
PRINCESS MAKO AND HER BOYFRIEND KEI KOMURO CONFIRM ENGAGEMENT FOR JULY THIS YEAR
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1560525
Paramountica, Rutannia, Amsterwald, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Abessinienreich, New Provenance
[list]June 2020
[sub]Stampede of I-676[/sub]
[sub]
PART ONE (I)[/sub][/list]
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica MORNING
[sub]CONFERENCE ROOM E, CITY HALL of PHILADELPHIA[/sub]
| Oak paneled walls, polished conference table a City Hall staffer cleans the surface, adjusting her mask for a moment before setting glasses of water at each setting. Each wooden armchair is set a certain feet apart from each other. |
[list]| [sub]JACK ROUSCH, City Attorney[/sub] [sup](V.O.)[/sup] | Couldve been done by Zoom
| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] [sup](V.O.)[/sup] | This shouldnt have happened in the first place.[/list]
[sub]HALLWAY CORRIDOR, CITY HALL of PHILADELPHIA[/sub]
| SAM BESKIN, 60s, Defense Attorney for the NAACP, walks alongside JACK ROUSCH, 50s, Attorney for the City, along a polished floor corridor of city hall, passing oil painting frames of previous city mayors and officials, even some Founding Fathers, ROUSCH adjusts his mask for a moment. |
[list]| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | But it did, because this police department is so
| [sub]JACK ROUSCH, City Attorney[/sub] | Mind if I join you?
| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | In what?
| [sub]JACK ROUSCH, City Attorney[/sub] | Walking.[/list]
| BESKIN doesnt respond, as the two keep walking. |
[list]| [sub]JACK ROUSCH, City Attorney[/sub] | I take this as an indication of your intent not to donate to the policemans ball this year.
| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | I never have done that, nor would there be one this year, remember were in a pandem
| [sub]JACK ROUSCH, City Attorney[/sub] | Next year then.
| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | Im representing over two dozen plaintiffs that have every right to believe there is little difference between this police department and Floros Greece so forgive me if I seem a little less than interested in the 2021 Policemans Ball.[/list]
| BESKIN stops to face ROUSCH as he concludes those remarks, ROUSCH stops too, and smirks a bit, breaking Social Distancing to pat slap BESKIN on the shoulder. |
[list]| [sub]JACK ROUSCH, City Attorney[/sub] | Ill see you inside, Sam.[/list]
| And walks ahead of BESKIN. |
[sub]CONFERENCE ROOM E, CITY HALL of PHILADELPHIA[/sub]
| The previously empty CONFERENCE ROOM E, is now staffed with the minimum, a panel of three INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATORS flanked by the two Legal teams. At the corner of the room, a STENOGRAPHER types away. Binders are opened, masks are set aside for the purpose of discussion. MR. GREENFIELD, Chair of the INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATORS speaks up. |
[list]| [sub]MR. GREENFIELD, Police Oversight Commission[/sub] | This deposition is to allow for an exchange of views, thatll help the Investigative team determine whether or not Philadelphia City Guidelines were violated on June 1st of this year, 2020, and for the purpose of[/list]
| The door swings open, coming in late, JOHN McNESBY, President of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 5 which represents the citys 6,500-member police force, walks in and proceeds to sit down next to ROUSCH, taking a moment to glare at BESKIN, who glances back. |
[list]| [sub]MR. GREENFIELD, Police Oversight Commission[/sub] | Discovering what occurred, and all that followed. That is the intent of this oversight probe. Now, Id like to[/list]
| McNESBY interjects. |
[list]| [sub]JOHN McNESBY, Police Union[/sub] | Id like to state, for the record, that our boys in blue everything according to regulations, set forth
| [sub]MR. GREENFIELD, Police Oversight Commission[/sub] | Mr. McNesby.
| [sub]JOHN McNESBY, Police Union[/sub] | Set forth, by the city
| [sub]MR. GREENFIELD, Police Oversight Commission[/sub] | Mr. McNesby, it is not your turn to speak
| [sub]JOHN McNESBY, Police Union[/sub] | Because Law and Order
| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | Law and Order, without Justice . . . is what?[/list]
| McNESBY turns to look at BESKIN, the room is tense. GREENFIELD speaks up again. |
[list]| [sub]MR. GREENFIELD, Police Oversight Commission[/sub] | Please. Now, Id like to[/list]
| Now its BESKINs turn to interject, Turing to face ROUSCH. |
[list]| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | You really think the world wasnt watching?[/list]
| And With That we hear a CROWD start to chant faint at first but then growing in volume |
[list]| [sub]CROWD, Protesting[/sub] [sup](V.O.)[/sup] | BLACK LIVES MATTER! BLACK LIVES MATTER![/list]
| Off ROUSCHs look back to BESKIN And |
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Free as Always! Detailed, Creative, Storytelling![/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
Vancouver Straits / Peking Zhongguo
Yarosluv[/spoiler]
Yarosluv, Rutannia, Nevbrejnovitz, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Philanialle, Nileia, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Abessinienreich, New Provenance, Universitatis
[list]June 2020
[sub]Stampede of I-676[/sub]
[sub]
PART TWO (II)[/sub][/list]
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica EVENING
[sub]HIGHWAY (INTERSTATE) I-676[/sub]
| Its a Monday, just before 5 P.M. the 3rd day of protests in Philly following the death of George Floyd in the hands of police custody. Placards of protest, marching on public streets, an assortment of ages but mainly youths in their 20s and 30s. Theyre a sense of avenging in the air, a desire for change. |
[list]| [sub]CROWD, Protesting[/sub] | BLACK LIVES MATTER! NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE! BLACK LIVES MATTER! [/list]
| Over one thousand protest, and some of them make their way from N 22nd Street onto the I-676. Automobile horns blare, traffic is HALTED as the PROTESTORS make their way Eastward into the TUNNEL beyond N 21st Street. |
[sub]FROM VIEWPOINT STATE TROOPER VEHICLE on I-676[/sub]
| A Pennsylvania STATE TROOPER, sits in the halted vehicle, looking on as the PROTESTORS draw near, reaching for his radio. |
[list]| [sub]STATE TROOPER, On I-676[/sub] [sup](RADIO)[/sup] . . . Looks like theyre all moving eastbound towards traffic. All this traffic is stopped . . . Again, theyre peaceful, just walking eastbound.
| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] [sup](V.O.)[/sup] | This happens to contradict what[/list]
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica MORNING
[sub]CONFERENCE ROOM E, CITY HALL of PHILADELPHIA[/sub]
[list]| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | City police tried to declare. As a matter of fact[/list]
| BESKIN, whos standing, turns to the City Defense team, FOOTAGE from the DASHCAM of the STATE TROOPERs vehicle was on display. |
[list]| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | He was able to leave freely, and join the SWAT team.[/list]
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica EVENING
[sub]FROM VIEWPOINT STATE TROOPER VEHICLE on I-676[/sub]
| Minutes afterwards, as the PROTESTING MARCHERS finally draw near the STATE TROOPERs vehicle in mass, a PROTESTOR spraypaints the empty SUV, and over the dashcams viewpoint too. |
[sub]TUNNEL, HIGHWAY (INTERSTATE) I-676[/sub]
| As MARCHING PROTESTORS make their way into the illuminated concrete tunnel, the first SWAT team moves in, and the escalation begins, as PROTESTORS notice. |
[list]| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] [sup](V.O.)[/sup] | There were no verbal warnings.[/list]
| SWAT team members, in full riot gear, including helmets, begin to pepper spray target people walking away, with BLASTS of the spray or filming the scene. Two SWAT team members stand on the concrete barriers separating the highway lanes. |
[list]| [sub]CROWD, Protesting[/sub] | HANDS UP! DONT SHOOT![/list]
| The MARCHING PROTESTORS declare, as the two SWATs just shrug, adjusting their rifles, indicting theyre rolled their eyes, as one of them aims their spray at a Philadelphia Inquirer REPORTER. |
[list]| [sub]REPORTER, Philadelphia Inquirer[/sub] | Im Press![/list]
| He doesnt care and pepper sprays her and her camera anyway. |
[sub]OVERPASS LOOKING FROM WINTER ST[/sub]
| A few onlookers record the tense scene, as MARCHING PROTESTORS stop, raising their hands as indicated by their shouting response, all capture on peoples mobile devices. Thats when the 2nd SWAT TEAM begins to move in from the other side with an ARMORED VEHICLE. |
[sub]HIGHWAY (INTERSTATE) I-676[/sub]
| Protestors are now wedged in between two SWAT teams. Being packed in, the PROTESTORS look for exits. |
[list]| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] [sup](V.O.)[/sup] | The most notable exit, as most try to comply, is the off ramp back onto 21st street.[/list]
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica MORNING
[sub]CONFERENCE ROOM E, CITY HALL of PHILADELPHIA[/sub]
[list]| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | Some escape, but others . . . get trapped. And as that occurred, Id like to direct focus to[/list]
| By now, the city defense was getting rather uncomfortable, as ROUSCH shifted a bit in his seat, scoffing a laugh. |
[list]| [sub]JACK ROUSCH, City Attorney[/sub] | Alright, alright, I think we can call for an early lunch here, Id just like to
| [sub]MR. GREENFIELD, Police Oversight Commission[/sub] | We will proceed, Mr. Rousch . . . Continue, Mr. Beskin.[/list]
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica EVENING
[sub]HIGHWAY (INTERSTATE) I-676[/sub]
| DIAMONIK HOUGH, an African-Paramerican male, somewhere in his 30s, proceeds to sit down in the middle of the empty highway, protesting. Two females come to join him, sitting near him. |
[list]| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] [sup](V.O.)[/sup] | Mr. Houghs account; When I sat down, immediately two women ran and sat down in front of me, and I assume they did this to protect me. Now, when a tear gas caster landed near him[/list]
| HOUGH throws the caster back, away and back into the tunnel, before sitting back down a SWAT team member walks up to the trio, and quickly, one by one, PULLS down their masks and gives them a spray of pepper spray directly in their faces. |
[list]| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] [sup](V.O.)[/sup] | Quote; I hear, spray, spray, and then he comes to me, pulls my mask, and sprays me in the face . . . continuously.[/list]
Yarosluv, Rutannia, Nevbrejnovitz, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Philanialle, Ranponian, Nileia, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Abessinienreich, New Provenance
[list]June 2020
[sub]Stampede of I-676
[/sub]
[sub]PART THREE (III)[/sub][/list]
CLOSE ON AN OFFICE PRINTER
| We see shards of paper being printed. |
[list][list][list][pre]PHILADELPHIA POLICE DEPARTMENT DIRECTIVE 10.2[/pre]
𝙴𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚎: 𝟿-𝟷𝟾-𝟷𝟻
𝚂𝚄𝙱𝙹𝙴𝙲𝚃: 𝚄𝚂𝙴 𝙾𝙵 𝙼𝙾𝙳𝙴𝚁𝙰𝚃𝙴/𝙻𝙸𝙼𝙸𝚃𝙴𝙳 𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙲𝙴
𝙿𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙲 𝟷.𝟹.𝟷, 𝟷.𝟹.𝟺, 𝟷.𝟹.𝟻, 𝟷.𝟹.𝟼(𝚊,𝚋,𝚌)
𝙳. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝙾𝙲 𝚂𝚙𝚛𝚊𝚢 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚍:
𝟷. 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚊𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚗𝚘𝚗-𝚟𝚒𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚜.
𝟸. 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚍𝚜.
𝟹. 𝙸𝚗 𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚏𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚎𝚡𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚁𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚎𝚌𝚑 𝚘𝚛 𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚕𝚢.[/list][/list][/list]
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica EVENING
[sub]HIGHWAY (INTERSTATE) I-676[/sub]
| Attached to the 21st ST Overpass, we can see, one of the green Highway signs; |
[list][list]PA CONVENTION CTR 1/2
INDEPENDENCE HALL 1 1/4[/list][/list]
| At this point, the HIGHWAY is clearing up, as TRAFFIC begins to file through slowly. |
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica EVENING
[sub]POLICE HEADQUATERS[/sub]
| In front of the POLICE HQ, outside, a women in a high ranking POLICE uniform and mask walks before a podium. |
[list][list][sub]STATEMENT HOURS AFTER I-676 EVENT
DANIELLE M. OUTLAW,
POLICE COMMISSIONER[/sub][/list][/list]
| This is the POLICE COMMISSIONER, adjusting the microphone before speaking.
[list]| [sub]DANIELLE M. OUTLAW, Police Commissioner[/sub] | . . . The option of deploying tear gas was selected when it became evident at that time, other options were not effective . . .[/list]
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica MORNING
[sub]CONFERENCE ROOM E, CITY HALL of PHILADELPHIA[/sub]
| BESKIN, now standing. |
[list]| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | But that is directly contradicted with how the police characterized it, and then, lets not forget what happened next.[/list]
| ROUSCH stands as well, facepalming himself. |
[list]| [sub]JACK ROUSCH, City Attorney[/sub] | This is misleading! Clearly, the police acted in a rational Meanwhile, Someone in the crowd
| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | They were getting wedged, but yes, someone in the crowd noted[/list]
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica EVENING
[sub]BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PWKY[/sub]
| After a face full of milk from a gallon, covering his entire face to lessen the pain of the tear gas, an early 20s UPENN student, speaks to a reporter, moments after what is about to be described. |
[list]| [sub]UPENN STUDENT, Protestor[/sub] | Ow Someone in the crowd [/list]
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica MORNING
[sub]CONFERENCE ROOM E, CITY HALL of PHILADELPHIA[/sub]
[list]| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | SOMEONE IN THE GODDAMNIT CROWD[/list]
| Theyre a SHOUTING match between BESKIN and ROUSCH, as BESKIN gets the final say before |
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica EVENING
[sub]HIGHWAY (INTERSTATE) I-676[/sub]
| Being flanked by both sides, the N 21st ST ramp no longer being an option, hundreds of MARCHING PROTESTORS are being WEDGED in between, terrified, worried, petrified Civilians . . . Theres a grassy knoll/hill in between the overpasses. |
[list]| [sub]PROTESTOR, Someone in the Crowd[/sub] | . . . 𝙐𝙋 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙃𝙄𝙇𝙇![/list]
| THERES A MOMENT AND THEN |
[list][list][list]https://voca.ro/1ou7i4ZXkFjv
[pre]OVER REST OF ENTIRE SCENE.[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
| And thats what did it Suddenly a STAMPEDE RUSH breaks out as the crowd starts charging up the small highway wedged hill . . . The street name for chloroacetophenone is tear gas, and its like a blowtorch. Your lungs, your skin, your eyes, it gets everywhere and stays everywhere. |
|[/B] The MARCHING PROTESTORS continue to ascend the highway-side hill, and soon enough those who make it to the top find out why its later referred to as a wedge. |
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica MORNING
[sub]CONFERENCE ROOM E, CITY HALL of PHILADELPHIA[/sub]
[list]| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | There was a fence.[/list]
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica EVENING
[sub]HIGHWAY (INTERSTATE) I-676[/sub]
| A tall fenced gated away the highway-side hill from BEN FRANKLIN PWKY, as some of the stronger ones surmounted them, they happened also to either get a boast or simply be the first upfront. MARCHING PROTESTORS, coughing, their eyes burning, as SWAT POLICE fire canisters of the tear gas into the wedged in crowd. Signs are stepped on, people even are too its . . . CHAOS. |
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica MORNING
[sub]CONFERENCE ROOM E, CITY HALL of PHILADELPHIA[/sub]
| ROUSCH stands up again, in a fit, motioning to the INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATORS. |
[list]| [sub]JACK ROUSCH, City Attorney[/sub] | WE DIDNT DIRECT THAT!
| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | BUT YOU DID![/list]
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica EVENING
[sub]HIGHWAY (INTERSTATE) I-676[/sub]
| A few SWAT POLICE members, recorded on FOOTAGE, motioning the MARCHING PROTESTORS with their black gloved arms up the hill. |
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica MORNING
[sub]CONFERENCE ROOM E, CITY HALL of PHILADELPHIA[/sub]
[list]| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | AND EVEN SOME OF THEM[/list]
| McNESBY could tackle BESKIN right now if he could, as he slaps the table with a hand in frustration. The STENOGRAPHER keeps typing away. |
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica EVENING
[sub]HIGHWAY (INTERSTATE) I-676[/sub]
| A SWAT POLICE member aims his rifle, its a RUBBER PELLET gun, and FIRES PFFT! HITTING some in the UPWARDS HILL CROWD in the face, and one AIMS at an ONLOOKER, hitting her in the forehead, she DROPS her phone, she wasnt even on that hill. |
| The CHAOS continues, as MARCHING PROTESTORS continue to STAMPEDE up the hill, increasingly becoming trapped. The SWAT team is doing no better, continuing its direction, and tear gas. |
[sub]BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PWKY[/sub]
| Most of the MARCHING PROTESTORS, now on the PKWY, not the I-676, attending their wounds, milk gallons being passed around to subdue the tear gas effects. A few turn their heads and watch as SWAT members drag some of the remaining down the hill hard, and arrest them. |
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica MORNING
[sub]CONFERENCE ROOM E, CITY HALL of PHILADELPHIA[/sub]
| INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATORS, stunned BESKIN takes a moment, taking his glasses off, wipes his face with a napkin. |
[list] | [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | . . . Im going to need a moment.[/list]
| While BESKIN takes a moment, ROUSCH, trying to reassert, speaks up. |
[list]| [sub]JACK ROUSCH, City Attorney[/sub] | . . . We gave our account, that very same evening.[/list]
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica EVENING
[sub]POLICE HEADQUATERS[/sub]
| In front of the POLICE HQ, its back to the POLICE COMMISSIONER statement |
[list][list][sub]STATEMENT HOURS AFTER I-676 EVENT[/sub][/list][/list]
[list]| [sub]DANIELLE M. OUTLAW, Police Commissioner[/sub] | . . . Ah, when folks run up on the freeway, at that point its not deemed peaceful . . .[/list]
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Paramountica MORNING
[sub]CONFERENCE ROOM E, CITY HALL of PHILADELPHIA[/sub]
| BESKIN puts his glasses back on. |
[list] | [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | . . . They justified their use of force, by defacto treating everyone there, as violent . . every, single person.
| [sub]JACK ROUSCH, City Attorney[/sub] | The Mayor greenlighted it
| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | Only if and when lesser methods did not stop anything . . . but none were used.[/list]
| BESKIN turns back to the INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATORS. |
[list]| [sub]SAM BESKIN, NAACP Attorney[/sub] | They were getting off the highway . . . they were peaceful protestors and they were cornered as they tried to leave.[/list]
| And We Hold On That |
[list][list][list][sub]On June 25th, Philadelphia officials announced a moratorium on the use of tear gas in the city and apologized for their response to the protest.[/sub]
[sub]The deputy commissioner in charge of deploying tear gas during the march took a voluntary demotion.[/sub]
[sub]And some SWAT officers involved in the response are expected to be put on 30-day suspension with intent to dismiss.[/sub][/list][/list][/list]
SNAP TO BLACK
| And we HEAR, a huge crowd chant, one last time |
[list]| [sub]CROWD, Protesting[/sub] [sup](V.O.)[/sup] | BLACK LIVES MATTER![/list]
OUTRO: https://youtu.be/j1-OJJup6xc
Yarosluv, Rutannia, Nevbrejnovitz, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Philanialle, Ranponian, Nileia, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Abessinienreich, New Provenance, Universitatis
Well damn. Went outside to write my rp post and as soon as I sat down it started sprinkling and a yellow jacket buzzed over and stung me on my finger as I swatted it.
Wtf nature. Theirs easier ways to tell me to f'ck off.
Nileia
I now have a bump and mild annoyance on my left ring finger. :/
🤣
Caedmare
I feel like this could be translated to marriage.
The Nigerian Government's Response on the Socialist Coup in Egypt
The Government of Nigeria
After the Socialist Coup in Egypt, The Government of Nigeria will not accept this and support US efforts to Take Down the Socialist Government in Egypt, Nigeria believes that Socialism is Bad for Africa and it could let us down to ruin and fear. This is also a threat to Africa's Prosperity and Peace as well. Nonetheless, Africa will condemn this coup, as well as Nigeria and Many Others.
Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Abessinienreich, New Provenance, Caedmare
how does the entire continent of Africa condemn it if you only rp nigeria
Caedmare, Zamdrieak
*Tanzania shrugs*
??
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=somerania/detail=factbook/id=1560545
Rutannia, Metropolitan Francais, Abessinienreich
in ur rp you wrote that all of africa condemns the thing
Zamdrieak
Unrecognised. Ask for my permission before posting these kinds of things. As per COL law, you may not RP the actions of another country's characters without that country's permission - That is considered GMing.
Other than that, nice to have a neighbor in Nepal!
Mesuvia, Zamdrieak
He could "technically" claim IC that Chinese agents did it and you can deny it IC, but yea he has to specify in the narrative its a propaganda claim
Peking Zhongguo, Cacajuete
Yes.
how
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
You only RP Nigeria not all of Africa
As far as I know only Sudan and Libya did it
There will be no Tunisian condemnation because Tunisia is based.
Zamdrieak
*eats and removes kebab*
Nileia
I meant all of African Nations.
you dont get to speak for any African nation besides Nigeria.
Zamdrieak
Oh okay.
Wait a minute.
I made that flag.
Zamdrieak
Did it end up on the internet?
...
Shura Unveils New Constitution, Arab Union of The Fertile Crescent Declared, National Sovereignty Directorate Seizes Power
February, 2025
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[list]In the roiling wake of President Khalils deposition, Arab society was sent into a flurry. Politicians from every side of the aisle made fervent calls for change or restoration, some openly calling for revolution or coups. Many social elites and politicians correctly surmised that the instability was a key time to push their agenda. The federal government was a power vacuum following the arrest of core leaders and state/local governments were being openly challenged by tribal militias. Religious leaders both Sunni and Shiite were growing bolder in their criticism of the government and constitution. And yet the whole situation was suspiciously tame as far as Arab coups go. Police and tribal militias were in a standoff, not open combat. Progressives and students were protesting, not rioting. Religious leaders were spewing rhetoric, not initiating sectarian purges. It might as well have been business as usual. In fact in this time of great uncertainty there was one body of relative unity to look to: the National Restoration Coalition. Unifying the popular majority-holding political right of the AFS, the NRC offered and demanded a new unified government, doing away with political divides and the westernism that many felt had taken hold of the government.
The beating heart of the aforementioned westernism was the Arab National Union, a party which was really only a glorified loudspeaker for the beliefs of Zahir Khalil. For others, it was also a convenient way to leverage themselves into government, regardless of their beliefs. But with Khalil and his deputy Omar Razzaz in prison, the party fell to shambles. There was no clear leader or course of action and the party lacked any executive office save for Governors and their Assembly seats. The ANU, and their partner party the PUP, were little more than prey for the circling predator that was the NDC. With Kadhimi now in office, little could be done to stop it. Several dozen Assemblymen defected from the ANU and declared allegiance to the NDC in a new informal party. The NDC gained overt majority control of the Congress and therefore of the government.
At the public request of the NDC, President Kadhimi announced the convening of a national shura to discuss the future of the nation. The National Congress then passed Emergency National Order #001, embodying the Shura with the power to rewrite the constitution and embodying the Congress with the power to grant said power. The law was instantly derided by left-wingers and liberals as illegal and unconstitutional. Still, as militias occupied the country and students protested, the Shura convened. It brought together Governors, Ministers, Sheikhs, Generals, Militia commanders, Senators, Clerics, Imams, and Businessmen. Anyone who was anyone in the AFS was there, except of course the higher ups of the ANU. The entire social and political elite of the country was gathered. The Shura was convened in the Presidential Palace in Baghdad behind closed doors with the building secured by CTB Commandos. General Yarallah, who would be attending, announced that the military recognized the authority of the Shura and would respect and enforce its decisions.
The nation waited with baited breath as the Shura convened for 6 days. In that time, a Basra Shiite militia killed 4 police officers, Federal Police killed 11 protestors in Tikrit, and the ISF conducted its first terrorist attack in months. When the Shura emerged, spokesperson King Hussein I of Jordan made a shocking declaration: the Shura had formally dissolved the Arab Federal States. In its place was a new constitution, a new government, and a new path forward.
Taking immediate power would be the Arab Union of the Fertile Crescent. The Arab Union will subscribe to the tenets of Abdulrahmanism, modifying them necessarily to the situation of the country. The heart of the federal government of the Arab Union will be a single body: the National Sovereignty Directorate. The NSD will be the highest organ of state power, acting as both a collective executive and a national legislature. The NSD will be composed of the heads of government of each constituent state. Each state will select its leader in its own way but the NSD will be the arbiter should a leadership dispute emerge. Additional seats on the Directorate will exist to represent other relevant national interests and be created at the Directorates discretion. To execute their will, the NSD will appoint a Council of Ministers. To act as public representative and administrator of the Council and the NSD, the NSD will appoint a Chairman to the Council. The Chairman will hold no special executive power and will still answer to the NSD on a first-among-equals basis to their fellow Ministers. The NSD will hold a monopoly on governmental power, delegating it to Ministries and the Premier only at their own discretion.
For the purpose of advising the Directorate on its decisions and efforts, there will be two bodies: the Government Advisory Council and the National Assembly. The GAC will be composed of committees of experts on all matters, from religion to healthcare to nuclear physics. These committees will advise the Directorate on matters in their field as well as make policy proposals. The committees will also work closely with their respective Ministry to enhance policy development and implementation. The National Assembly will be the voice of the people within the government. It will be a democratically elected popular assembly, voting on resolutions and proposals to the NSD. The Speaker of the Assembly will hold a seat on the NSD.
The creation of the Arab Union also entails a re-alignment of local and state power structures. The legacy of central governance in the Middle East can be defined by each government's relationships to the institution of tribalism. On the peninsula, most tribes successfully elevated themselves to royalty and became the government. More often in the Fertile Crescent, the central governments persistently tried and failed to challenge tribal authority. This has produced generations of instability, most recently with the Hijri Rebellion and the AFS itself. This struggle ends with the Arab Union, as the centuries old authority of tribes and tribal confederations will now be entrenched into the government. In Jordan and Kuwait, dominant tribal families already run the country. These polities will remain unchanged under the Arab Union.
Iraq and Syria will be reorganized and transformed. Syria will be bisected by the Euphrates into the Federation of North Syria and the Emirate of Syria. The Syrian Democratic Council, commanding the Syrian Democratif Forces will become the FNS. It will have a special relationship to the Union, being allowed to practice its democratic confederalism in relative peace where it does not interfere with the state. The Emirate of Syria will be borne of a tribal confederation that collectively appoints an Emir. Governor Moaz al-Khatib has been crowned Emir Hasani I. Iraq has been split three ways. The Sunni north and west will be led by the Dulaim tribe and their confederation. Prominent Anbar Sheikh Sattar Abu Risha has been crowned Emir Sattar I. The majority Shia south has been given to the Muntafiq tribal confederation, whose council has appointed Grand Ayatollah Muqata al-Sadr as Emir. In central Iraq, the Baghdad Metro and a few surrounding cities represent a multi-religious core. The area will become its own state, with former Iraqi President Jumail al-Shaer appointed President again.
Additionally, the Kurdistan Autonomous Republic has decided to remain within the Arab Union. This is largely a matter of security, with Kurdistan being surrounded by two other countries that would rather see it annexed. In an informal agreement with the Directorate, Kurdistan will be allowed to prioritize its own laws over those of Baghdad. Baghdad will retain control of Kurdistans vital oil resources and keep troops in the country.
Effective immediately, the Directorate has convened in Baghdad to begin ruling the country. Their first act was to appoint Mustafa al-Kadhimi as Chairman of the Council of Ministers. In his opening address, Premier Kadhimi detailed the importance of economic development, cultural restoration, national and social cohesion, positive international diplomatic and business relationships, and strategic security for the nation. The situation in the infantile Arab Union is rapidly progressing and the full extent of public reaction of the Directorate is still yet to be seen.
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[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Free as Always! Detailed, Creative, Storytelling![/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
Vancouver Straits / Peking Zhongguo
Yarosluv[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Yarosluv, Paseo, Nevbrejnovitz, The Confederate Prussian Empire, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Alzarikstan, Ranponian, Nileia, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Mesuvia, Malagasia Bomoko, New Ashtown
CENTROAMERICAN INTERNAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE
FEBRUARY 2025
Founded in 1988 as Computers became more and more common throughout the Government, the Centroamerican Internal Intelligence Service (known as IIS in Centroamerica) is unlike many other Intelligence Agencies not concerned with terrorism but rather any and all fragments of information created or left behind by the Population to gather intelligence folders on every possible Individual within the Nation. Granted almost complete autonomy, it possesses its own agents and actively hires foreign specialists and purchases more advanced memory devices as their growing stockpile of information grows. The original goal of the IIS was to catalogue citizens likely of joining or assisting the Resistance, however has since grown to include every possible inclination of an individual. As such purchases that are conducted are listed alongside visits to doctors, political leaning, personal preference of shows and music, qualifications for the operation of weaponry and automobiles, fashion styles (rebellious, traditional etc.), date of all payments and monetary transfers, Race, Faith, Career performance, browsing history, hobbies & interests, Personal Vocal tones and Physical attributes.
Corporations actively make use of IIS services, paying for information on individuals within certain regions to know market preferences, while the Military and Police actively request data that could relate to cooperation with criminal organizations. Foreign Governments are given limited and observed access when necessary, for example with Interpol operations regarding terrorism or smuggling. IIS however does not function as a normal company, as all individuals who are granted a workplace at the organization are contractually barred from leaving Centroamerica for the rest of their lives, and are not permitted to switch their profession at any point in the future. The workers themselves are some of the highest priority targets of the IIS itself, their members not permitted to live normal lives as danger of data leaks has been shown by many foreign agents. Secretive liquidations of workers who showed the possibility of leaking information has regularly occurred, in part made easier due to the fact that workers are forced to live in specified residential zones that act as a form of more authoritarian private community.
Only the Director of the IIS is a publicly known member of the organization, as even security is taken care of by the IISs own security organization of masked special forces operatives in heavily armored black colored Vehicles. So important is the task of the IIS that it is the only organization within Centroamerica which is legally exempt from all privacy laws in place within the Country, whereas even the Centroamerican Intelligence Agency requires Governments warrants to carry out breaches of privacy.
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Free as Always! Detailed, Creative, Storytelling![/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
Vancouver Straits / Peking Zhongguo
Yarosluv[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Rutannia, Paseo, Nevbrejnovitz, The Confederate Prussian Empire, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Nileia, Vancouver Straits, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Mesuvia, Malagasia Bomoko, New Ashtown
| KINGDOM OF SPAIN |
| GOBIERNO IMPERIAL DE ESPAÑA |
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Torres administration begins aggressive crackdown on excessive government spending, cancelling numerous programs
| The Torres Administration (2024-) has been heavily criticized for allowing and even supporting excessive government spending on foreign investments and aggressively expanding the Spanish Armed Forces. In October 2024, the Spanish Ministry of Finance reported that - according to official estimates - the Spanish government had expended more than $25 billion USD in total government expenditure from April to October of last year. While criticism against the national administration led by Prime Minister Augustina Torres has stagnated in recent months, the Administration has once again made it their goal to crackdown on excessive government spending ahead of the coronation of Princess Leonor and the date that marks a whole year since the 2024 elections which brought Prime Minister Torres into power. This time, however, the government-led crackdown is reportedly more aggressive and swift than before. |
| While foreign investments took up a large minority of the spending and the spotlight during expenditure reviews by the Finance Ministry, most people are unaware that over $17 billion USD is spent annually on the Spanish Armed Forces, which is currently undergoing a rapid process of expansion and modernization. All branches but the Army and Marines were modernized, with equipment being replaced with newer, more advanced, but more expensive arms such as fifth-generation fighter aircraft from Korea and state-of-the-art attack helicopters from the United States. This rapid expansion and modernization effort was never officially declared over, and government expenditure continued spilling over the budget set by the Cortes Generales in Madrid. The refusal of military commanders to abide by the set budget caused tension between the Armed Forces and the government, which led to a series of debates and near-riots when the Army temporarily pushed a resolution through the Cortes that clearly displayed the military's imperialistic ambitions. Even after this debacle, the Spanish government continued pouring hundreds of millions to tens of billions of dollars into foreign arms procurement deals with nations all over the world. Reports from the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Finance state that the largest foreign arms partner of the Kingdom of Spain is now the French Republic, having eclipsed other sources of arms for the country's growing military. Another source of growth - and expenditure - in the Spanish military was the government initiative to boost active personnel numbers by more than 250,000 troops. |
| Most centrists, conservatives, liberals, and progressives rallied around Prime Minister Torres's goal to aggressively reduce government spending by more than 10% annually, but opposition to reduced spending bills and repeal orders directed at increased budgetary allocations, mostly led by the far-right political party Vox and the social democratic PSOE, prevented such legislation and legislation repeal orders from passing. In order to combat this, Prime Minister Torres's party, the liberal progressive Ciudadanos, announced a joint legislative coalition with the conservative People's Party (PP) and the conservative left-leaning Podemos party on the 2nd of February. The coalition gave the now-financially conservative Ciudadanos a sweeping majority in the Cortes, allowing spending reduction and limitation bills to be passed with ease. |
| Among the changes to ensure government spending remained strictly conservative included a reduction of the Armed Forces annual budget to $16.5 billion USD annually, the capping of Armed Forces personnel to 315,000 active and 115,000 reserve personnel by June 2025, and numerous program cancellations and financial support cuts that places many programs - including the endangered Joint Strike Carrier program - at serious risk of cancellation. The military's doomed $400 million USD project to adapt helicopter carriers to conventional aircraft use was slashed immediately, as was the possibility of a Russian arms procurement deal (although the Russians remain opposed to such a deal). The Cortes also passed legislation ensuring that no military arms purchase above $5 billion USD is allowed unless given express permission by the Prime Minister and her Cabinet of Ministers. This piece of legislation killed all chances of a possible Spanish deal to purchase F-35 fighter aircraft from the United States, at least in large numbers. The Navy and Air Force were also not exempted from the anti-spending crackdowns by Madrid, as the government also ruled that naval operations in the Mediterranean be reduced to the 'minimum operational capacity required by national security', while the Air Force was hit with legislation that placed three Spanish Air Force bases into a minimal operational capacity, thus increasing the time required to prepare and transport Spanish troops abroad. The Spanish procurement deal for two locally-produced Meteoro-class offshore patrol vessels were also cancelled. |
| All in all, the flurry of new legislation designed to combat excessive and radical spending habits have been ruthlessly effective, with government expenditure dropping by almost 3% in the days following the passage of the legislation through the Cortes. However, some negative effects were also observed when thousands of Spaniards were thrown out of their jobs with the cancellation of the two Meteoro-class OPVs on order by the Spanish Navy. Spanish shipbuilding corporation Navantia has stated that these workers will be transferred to the Jose Bravo carrier shipbuilding project, so no long-term economic damage will be dealt by these reforms. It is also to be expected that these financially conservative reforms will continue without obstruction, as Princess Leonor and multiple other high-profile individuals in the military and the Congress of Deputies (lower house of the Cortes) pledge their support for these reforms. |
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[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Free as Always! Detailed, Creative, Storytelling![/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
Vancouver Straits / Peking Zhongguo
Yarosluv[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Paseo, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Ranponian, Nileia, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Malagasia Bomoko, New Ashtown, Norwayyyy
Post self-deleted by Malagasia Bomoko.
That's dope.
I legit looked up greek flag on Google images and used the coolest one.
Want me to take it off?
Ranponian
[list]February 2025
[sup]Briefing Room[/sup][/list]
[list][list]𝐉𝐀𝐏𝐀𝐍 𝐆𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐕[/list][/list]
CONFERENCE by the CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1560744
Paramountica, Rutannia, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Ranponian, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Zamdrieak, New Ashtown
No, you can keep it.
Just know who your god is 👀
Mesuvia, Caedmare
I bid thee thanks.
Nileia
Hello socialist suckers.
Caedmare
Kingdom of Romania
Foreign Affairs office
[I]The president of france Is welcomed in Romania the Queen will gladly meet with him as circumstances prevented her from coming to france as she had planned the Queen values frence friendship and sees them as valuable, the prime minister also welcomes the president of France to Romania but unfortunately will not be present as he is ill, The Queen will have the palace decorated in french and Romania flags and French and Romania flags waving on palace square as well.
[Nation]metropolitan_francais[/nation]
Ranponian, New Ashtown
Hello you misogynistic pig >.>
Ranponian
Hello, just joined the region a few minutes ago!
Asharken, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais
welcome!
Bulgarian Romanian Republic
RPs tomorow because I dont feel like it today:
Recognizing the Arab Union of the Fertile Crescent
Expanding USAN operations in Malagasia
Completion of Solar Panel projects in Qatar, UAE, and Saudi
USAN $12 billion military deal with Italy to procure 96 Eurofighter Typhoons in 2026
Paramountica, Yarosluv, Asharken, Nileia, Zamdrieak
I got the WMDs Policy............
But it's not like that i will use them in the COL RP.......
Because it will be unrealistic..........
I am still gonna pretend that COL Nigeria (Me) has no nukes, as well as everyone roleplaying in this Region.
We dont use IRL statistics here anyway.
Zamdrieak
Oh Okay.
Caedmare
Not everyone in the region is without nuclear weapons in character. The United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, Japan, India, Israel, and South Afrika posses nuclear weapons in our RP.
And yes, we do use lots of IRL statistics, as they are the basis for our RP, however we often diverge from IRL statistics somewhat depending on alternate histories, etc. None of our IC statistics are based off or related to the NationStates issues gameplay, however.
Zamdrieak
[list][list][list][pre]KONGERIKET NORGE
02/16/2025
HANS MAJESTET HARALD V HOSPITALISERT, I KRITISK TILSTAND[/pre][/list]
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OSLO - Klokken 07.37 i morges ble det rapportert av kilder i familien at Hans Majestet Harald V er kjørt til Ullevål Universitetssykehus i Oslo. Mye av detaljene blir holdt på et behov for å vite grunnlag på vegne av den kongelige familien, og det er privatliv inntil videre. Dette ville ikke være den første medisinske hendelsen som skjedde med den 88 år gamle monarken. I 2021 måtte kongen kort tid gå bort fra sine plikter på grunn av revne leddbånd over kneet som krevde kirurgi, slik at kronprins Haakon kunne opprettholde pliktene selv. Siden han kom seg på slutten av 2021, hadde han blitt mye mer avhengig av kainen. Før den nylige hendelsen kjempet Harald V med blærekreft i 2003, kom gjennom kirurgi på grunn av en hjertesykdom i 2005, deretter mer hjerteoperasjon tidlig i 2020. Mer informasjon om denne uheldige hendelsen vil bli gitt når den er godkjent av Royal Familie.
(Translation: At 7:37am this morning, it was reported by sources within the family that His Majesty Harald V has been rushed to Ullevål Universitetssykehus in Oslo. Much of the details are being kept on a need to know basis on behalf of the Royal Family of Norway and it's privacy until further notice. This would not be the first medical incident to happen to the 88 year old Monarch. In 2021, the King briefly had to step away from his duties due to torn ligaments above his knee that required surgery, allowing Crown Prince Haakon to uphold the duties himself. Since his recovery in late 2021, he had become much more dependent on his cain. Prior to the recent incident, Harald V battled with bladder cancer in 2003, made it through surgery due to a heart condition in 2005, then more heart surgery in early 2020. More information on this unfortunate event will be dispensed when properly authorized by the Royal Family.)
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Free as Always! Detailed, Creative, Storytelling![/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
Vancouver Straits / Peking Zhongguo
Victoria Harbor[/spoiler]
Amsterwald, Ranponian, Nileia, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, New Ashtown
Cope.
Mesuvia
[list]January 2025
[sub]The Great Abe[/sub][/list]
TOKYO METROPOLIS, KANTO, HONSHU, Philanialle AFTERNOON
[sub]PRESS BRIEFING ROOM, KANTEI[/sub]
| With the flag of Japan centrally positioned behind the speech table all journalists and reporters were ordered by Kantei to sit at a suitable distance from each other in the conference room and, of course, with masks a government official walks to the speech table and places a glass of water on top of it . . . A few minutes later, the sounds of the journalists' camera flashes draw attention as Deputy Prime Minister Abe enters the Press Briefing Room SHINZO ABE wearing a black suit with a dark blue tie wearing his mask walks to the podium and bows to journalists. |
[list]| [sub]SHIN TANAKA, Government Official[/sub] | This press conference could have been done online, don't you think?
| [sub]REN SAITO, Government Official[/sub] | From what I've been told, Abe will resign as deputy prime minister and announce his retirement, so it would have to be face-to-face and official.[/list]
[list]| [sub]SHIN TANAKA, Government Official[/sub] | So the press will know about it today.[/list]
[sub]NEAR THE PRESS BRIEFING ROOM, KANTEI[/sub]
| The PRIME MINISTER SUGA at 76, will turn 77 in December, alongside Suga is MR. TARO ASO at 84, the current Minister of Finance walking down the hall to the press briefing room, Suga adjusts his mask. |
[list]| [sub]YOSHIHIDE SUGA, The Prime Minister[/sub] | Asō, are you ready to be my right hand man?[/list]
| TARO ASO, however, looked at the Prime Minister with a dubious expression. |
[list]| [sub]TARO ASO, Minister of Finance[/sub] | What do you mean, Mr. Prime Minister?
| [sub]YOSHIHIDE SUGA, The Prime Minister[/sub] | What? Have you not received the new information? Only Kantei knows that Abe will resign as deputy prime minister, we will officially announce today to the press.
| [sub]TARO ASO, Minister of Finance[/sub] | Oh yes. Sorry, Mr. Prime Minister, I must have received the information, but I completely forgot . . . this must be a consequence of my agehaha[/list]
| ASO starts to laugh, and the Prime Minister laughs along as the two walk side by side . . . when they arrive at the press briefing room, where they both walk to their seats SHINZO ABE takes the mask off his face and puts it in his suit pocket. |
[list]| [sub]Shinzo Abe, Deputy Prime Minister[/sub] | Good afternoon everyone. I would like to immediately announce that, for reasons of age and fatigue, I will resign as Deputy Prime Minister . . . I feel that I have completed my work with the Japanese people in these many years that I have been in power as Prime Minister of Japan and now as Deputy Prime Minister where I've been Suga's right hand man since 2023. [sup](Yes, Hiroki, Asahi Shimbun.)[/sup]
| [sub]HIROKI, Asahi Shimbun[/sub] | Mr. Abe. We're all shocked by his statement-because a great leader will leave politics to go down in history-but did the Prime Minister and Cabinet already know that? To decide who will be Suga's next right-hand man?
| [sub]Shinzo Abe, Deputy Prime Minister[/sub] | Yes, the Government already knew and we decided that Mr. Taro Aso will be Suga's next right-hand man, of course, because of his skills and influence.
[sub]Kathleen, The Washington Post.[/sub]
[sub]Q [/sub] As you may already know, you are a great politician abroad and especially in the United States, where the Biden White House together with the Fmr. Administration Trump consider you a great Japanese leader the same, of course, for the Prime Minister Suga. Now would you like to know what your opinions were on Egypt before?[/list]
| SHINZO ABE drank some water before continuing to organize his briefing binder. |
[list]| [sub]SHINZO ABE, Deputy Prime Minister[/sub] | I was totally against the Illegitimate Government of Egypt, so I supported the actions of the Paramerican Government, Kathleen.[/list]
| And then after ABE's statement along with questions from the press . . . now it's Prime Minister's turn. |
[sub]PRESS BRIEFING ROOM, KANTEI[/sub]
| With SHINZO ABE leaving the podium speech table after his declaration The Prime Minister took the podium that was being disinfected by government officials using masks, gloves and alcohol gel. Farther to the left, ASO took the podium along with the Prime Minister. SUGA takes off his mask and puts it in his right pants pocket, TARO ASO chose not to take the mask off his face, where he is now standing to the Prime Minister's right. |
[list]| [sub]YOSHIHIDE SUGA, The Prime Minister[/sub] | With Abe's recent statement in which he announces his resignation and will retire from politics . . . I take this opportunity to make official the appointment of MR. TARO ASO as New Deputy Prime Minister of Japan and my right hand man[/list]
| SUGA starts to applaud for ASO and walks away from the speech table for Mr. Aso to say a few words, where he takes the mask off his face and puts it in his pocket. |
[list]| [sub]TARO ASO, 'New' Deputy Prime Minister of Japan[/sub] | I would like to thank Prime Minister Suga and the Cabinet for choosing me to be the Prime Minister's right hand man. I will do my best[/list]
| The press conference ends. |
Paramountica, Rutannia, Amsterwald, Ranponian, Nileia, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, New Ashtown
Whats up
How does Japan and South Africa own Nuclear Weapons?
Because roleplay
Philanialle, Vancouver Straits, Mesuvia
<-<
>->
Well, I've graduated college...
I now have no idea what do with my life.
Yarosluv, Rutannia
join the peace corps
Bulgarian Romanian Republic
Meh. I'd prefer to avoid working for the government if at all possible.
Asharken, Mesuvia
Based
Post self-deleted by New Iredale.
FINNISH TROOPS ENTER SWEDEN, PEACEKEEPING MISSION DECLARED
[list][sup]FINNO-UGRIANS UNDER A PROTECTIVE HAND
SWEDENWINTER 202425[/sup][/list]
For years, Sweden has been enmeshed in a violent insurrection that has consumed much of the country's northern regions. For a Finnish government increasingly concerned about the protection of Finno-Ugric people, culture, and language, the notion of a threat to the safety of Finno-Ugrians in northern Sweden has become increasingly pressing on the Finnish Parliament, which recently opened with talks on potential peacekeeping missions in Sweden that were well met by a great many members of Parliament. However, as the Swedish government openly consented to the presence of Finnish peacekeepers in February 2025, no declaration of warand thus no parliamentary approvalwas needed for the mission. Only the President of the Republic, Kai Mykkänen, needed to command the decisionand so he did.
The Finnish Jaeger Brigadea unit of nearly two thousand soldiers garrisoned at Sodankylä and Rovaniemi known for specializing in Arctic warfarewas ordered to make preparations to cross into Finland on the 10th of February to strategic points of the Torne River Valley, focusing on the northernmost region of unrest around Kiruna. Their orders were twofold: to protect law and order in Sweden and ensure that the Finnic and Samic peoples of the regionFinno-Ugrianswere not targeted or endangered by military operations of either side. The crossing happened one week later, and the Swedish military welcomed the Finnish peacekeepers into the Valley.
Paramountica, Yarosluv, Rutannia, Nevbrejnovitz, Victoria Harbor, Philanialle, Osivoii, Pontianus, Ranponian, Nileia, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Mesuvia, Malagasia Bomoko, New Ashtown
| KINGDOM OF SPAIN |
| GOBIERNO IMPERIAL DE ESPAÑA |
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Conservative Bloc established in Spanish Cortes in Ciudadanos power consolidation move
| Representatives from the Christian-aligned conservative People's Party and the liberal progressive Ciudadanos party, namely Isabel Diaz Ayuso, Minister of Social Security, and Augustina Torres, Prime Minister of Spain, respectively, jointly announced the establishment of the Conservative Bloc, a more established political coalition between Spain's largest and Spain's fourth-largest political party. The Bloc was established as a direct result of past gridlocks in the Cortes Generales (Spain's parliament) and the recent legislative debacle over excessive government spending. Although the name may claim that the Bloc is represents conservatives in the Spanish legislature, Prime Minister and Ciudadanos party president Augustina Torres stated at the press conference announcing the Bloc that 'this new political coalition between two of Spain's brightest and most innovative parties is designed not to represent one sector of the Spanish people, but all sectors'. The actual definition of an 'established political coalition' has not been set in cement, however, so it remains unclear whether this merits just voting on each parties' legislation or creating a unified legislative approach policy. |
| The Conservative Bloc now holds a majority of both houses the Spanish Senate and the Congress of Deputies (upper and lower house of the Cortes respectively), which, as many politicians and political analysts hope, will ensure that the Spanish legislature does not go into gridlock once more. Plans to develop a unified policy to approach new legislation proposed by 'external parties' such as the left-wing PSOE and the far-right Vox are in the works, which hopefully will ensure that no debates or bickering will occur between Bloc politicians. The announcement by only two representatives came as a shock, however, as when the Bloc was conceptualized the conservative right-wing party Podemos was included in negotiations. Party leaders have refused to comment, but political analysts suspect a falling out occurred between the three parties, causing Podemos to split from the coalition. The Prime Minister has stated, however, that Podemos is still welcome to join the Bloc should it wish to, as long as the party agrees to conform to the unified policies of the Bloc. |
| Although most of the Spanish public hailed the Conservative Bloc as a symbol of democracy and Spanish unity, some suspected - potentially rightly - that the Bloc was established as part of a covert power consolidation move by Prime Minister Torres and Ciudadanos, who's political power in the Cortes was contested by the numerous failed coalitions formed between the PSOE and Vox. With the Conservative Bloc backing Ciudadanos - and thus Prime Minister Torres's - legislation and policies, practically no opposition can be established due to the strong majority held by the People's Party and Ciudadanos, the two parties that compose the Bloc. While critics of the Bloc cite this and the 'fact it could severely hinder the execution of democratic principles in the country', both of which are deemed false accusations, it is certain that with the support of the Bloc - and thus the People's Party, Prime Minister Torres and Ciudadanos are in for a rapid consolidation and expansion of power. |
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[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Free as Always! Detailed, Creative, Storytelling![/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
Vancouver Straits / Peking Zhongguo
Yarosluv[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Philanialle, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, Malagasia Bomoko, New Ashtown, Red Eoin
The timeline of this RP goes back to the 30s
Japan joined the allies and maintained it's empire for longer.
South Africa has the capabilities to make nukes IRL as it did it's first test in 1979 and they were dismantled in 1989.
Zamdrieak
I didnt dismantle them, unlike real life South Afrika.
Asharken, Somerania
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1561070
Yarosluv, Amsterwald, Philanialle, Asharken, Nileia, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Abessinienreich
Based
However, I havent made anymore As of yet.
[list]February 2025
[sub]Korean 'Box'[/sub][/list]
TOKYO METROPOLIS, KANTO, HONSHU, Philanialle MORNING
[sub]MAIN HALL, KANTEI[/sub]
| With two guards at Kantei's entrance, a black car approaches the main gate and the two guards open it the car belongs to VICE PRIME MINISTER TARO ASO, his visit is just for a meeting with the Prime Minister the PRIME MINISTER SUGA, on the other hand, having forgotten that he had a meeting scheduled with Mr. Asō Suga was reminded that he had a meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister Suga then left his office and went to receive Asō who had already arrived. |
[list]| [sub]YOSHIHIDE SUGA, The Prime Minister[/sub] | Good morning Mr. Asō. I had forgotten we had a meeting . . . my old age is making me forget about thingshaha
| [sub]TARO ASO, The Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Finance[/sub] | No problem, Prime Minister. I understand you, I'm forgetting a lot of things too, I'm going to be 85 in Septemberhaha[/list]
[list]| [sub]YOSHIHIDE SUGA, The Prime Minister[/sub] | I'm going to be 77 this year, I'm a few years youngerhaha[/list]
[sub]PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE, KANTEI[/sub]
| After they both laugh, the two continue walking towards the Prime Minister's office, where Suga puts his hand on the doorknob to open the door Suga enters his office he walks over to his polished wooden desk and sits in his chair. |
[list]| [sub]YOSHIHIDE SUGA, The Prime Minister[/sub] | Sit down Mr. Asō. What topic should we discuss?[/list]
| TARO ASO sat down in the wooden chair strategically placed in front of the Prime Minister's desk. |
[list]| [sub]TARO ASO, The Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Finance[/sub] | The main topic currently being discussed is Korea, of course you should know, I recently announced my position on Korea . . . Where I took a stand against rebuilding relations between Tokyo and Seoul . . . Korea is like a 'box' where various surprises appear as well as a 'messy box'.
| [sub]YOSHIHIDE SUGA, The Prime Minister[/sub] | Uh, yes . . . if I remember, I read in a newspaper about it. But Prime Minister Yi's intentions seem believable, why would something bad come out of that Korean box?
| [sub]TARO ASO, The Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Finance[/sub] | Mr. Prime Minister, Korea is not worthy of our trust Seoul may well elect a new Administration and that same Administration will be anti-Japanese and everything will go back to the way it was before . . . my advice is to distance yourself from Seoul you know how Korean politics is extremely confusing.[/list]
| The PRIME MINISTER SUGA sucks with a thoughtful expression, leaning back in his chair. |
[list]| [sub]YOSHIHIDE SUGA, The Prime Minister[/sub] | I'll take your advice, Mr. Asō . . . I should have paid more attention to detail, today I will announce at a press conference that the Empire of Japan will take relations between Seoul and Tokyo to a neutral level.
| [sub]TARO ASO, The Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Finance[/sub] | Yes, Mr. Prime Minister. We must be careful with the 'Korean box' or the 'mess box' absolutely anything can come out of it.
| [sub]YOSHIHIDE SUGA, The Prime Minister[/sub] | I agree, Mr. Asō. I will fix this error soon.[/list]
| TARO ASO straightened his shirt sleeve before continuing. |
[list]| [sub]TARO ASO, The Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Finance[/sub] | Why doesn't Shinzo Abe advise you to do the same?
| [sub]YOSHIHIDE SUGA, The Prime Minister[/sub] | He intended to do that, Abe was very suspicious of Korea but with his retirement recently announced, he didn't, but he shared it with me and I forgot about it due to my old age.[/list]
| The meeting would continue until they both ended. |
[sub]PRESS BRIEFING ROOM, KANTEI AFTERNOON[/sub]
| After the meeting between Suga and Aso, the prime minister called a press conference where the press room was prepared under the orders of the Prime Minister . . . A short time later, when everything was ready and the journalists were notified by Kantei the PRIME MINISTER SUGA wearing a dark blue suit with a yellow tie, he crossed the PRESS BRIEFING ROOM to the podium and bowed to the journalists present. |
[list]| [sub]YOSHIHIDE SUGA, The Prime Minister[/sub] | Good afternoon everyone. I would like to start already by declaring that the relations that were being rebuilt between Tokyo and Seoul will not materialize the Empire of Japan will bring relations with Korea to a level of neutrality As you all know, Korea is like a 'box' and this box has many surprises that are mostly BAD.[/list]
| The PRIME MINISTER's statement left the press totally impressed by Suga's change of tone, where many questions were asked during the press conference. |
[sub]JAPAN EMBASSY, SEOUL SPECIAL CITY, Rutannia AFTERNOON[/sub]
| With Suga's recent announcement that relations with Seoul have fallen to neutrality, the Japanese embassy is under great strain, awaiting a response from the Korean Administration. |
[list]| [sub]KORO BESSHO, Japanese Ambassador to Korea[/sub] | Taro Aso is just continuing what Abe would do if he continued to be Suga's right hand man.[/list]
| BESSHO in a serious look at the diplomat, MS. MAMI MIZUTORI while drinking a cup of sake. |
[list]| [sub]MAMI MIZUTORI, Japanese Diplomat[/sub] | Yes, we are all anxious to know what Korea's response will be depending on the response, Tokyo will have to close the embassy and consulates on Korean soil.[/list]
Paramountica, Yarosluv, Rutannia, Amsterwald, Asharken, Pontianus, Ranponian, Nileia, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance
USAN Brigades Begin Confrontation With Zadi's 2nd Brigade
TICN 3rd generation tactical communication systems, TMMR Tactical multiband multirole radios, and TSC-791K Mobile and tactical military satellite communication systems would increase in activity as the ground operations would begin. The 2 x USAN Brigades would be equipped with the following equipment per Brigade to initiate a pincher maneuver in an attempt to outflank Zadi's 2nd Brigade:
[list][pre]10 x KW1 Mobile Gun System (MGS)
5 x KW2 Jupiter 8×8 fire support vehicles
5 x KW2 120 mm mortar carriers
4 x KW2 Anti-Tank Vehicles
10 x K21-105 Light Tanks
10 x K21 AS21 Redback Infantry Fighting Vehicles
20 x Ground Mobility Vehicles (USSOCOM)
3 x K239 Chunmoo Multiple Launch Rocket Systems[/pre][/list]
Providing aerial support for the 2 USAN Brigades, 4 x USAN Korean Air KUS-DUAS MALE UCAV (Renamed the USAN Maymunah bint al-Harith MALE UCAV) would be equipped with 4 x AGM-114 Hellfire air to ground missiles & 2 x 500 lb (230 kg) GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bombs. The drones would separate with 2 going to each brigade and reinforced by the 4 x KUS-FC UCAV (Renamed the USAN Umm Habiba-FC UCAV) that would be equipped with the same armament and replicate the deployment pattern of the MALE UCAVs. With digitally linked C4ISR software programs connected to the USAN's already established exclusive GPS, near real time information gathering for filtered intelligence production of the battle space allows for the UCAVs to communicate and integrate its functions and awareness with the 2 x USAN brigades.
Near Mahajanga City, 2 of the USAN's deployed F-18s would become damaged severely by Zadi's Type-91 portable MANPADS with a 3rd aircraft being downed over the city; however, the 3 pilots were able eject from their aircraft and inform Central Command of their coordinates per their landing on the island. The 3 pilots were instructed to find a place to regroup and await further orders to attempt to get them to Queen Rania's territory from Mahajanga City. With the news of 3 downed aircraft, Grand Emir Abdullah II has ordered for an increase in aerial precision assaults on Zadi forces that may potentially utilize buildings in Mahajanga City for protection and protracted warfare. Meanwhile, on the Houthi front, directions has been given to begin starting to immerse into the native population and conduct a very loose guerrilla warfare operation against Zadi's forces via surprise attacks and seizing major roads to conduct ambushes and the production of IEDs to be utilized against Zadi forces. The Houthis has indicated that they will provide the native population slight heads up prior to major assaults; however, understanding that Zadi may have silent sympathizers or direct forces already within the various tribes, the Houthis would also provide false information to lure Zadi troops to particular areas to be ambushed.
Paramountica, Yarosluv, Philanialle, Ranponian, Nileia, Metropolitan Francais, Abessinienreich, New Provenance, Malagasia Bomoko
Expanded Military Cooperation Between Union-State of Alzarikstan & The Arab Union of Asharken
February 14, 2025
Abu Dhabi, Union-State of Arab Nations
National Council on Defense & State Security
توسيع التعاون العسكري بين الاتحاد ودولة الدول العربية والاتحاد العربي للهلال الخصيب
14 فبراير 2025
أبوظبي ، دولة اتحاد الدول العربية
المجلس الوطني للدفاع وأمن الدولة
The Arab National Defense Research Corporation of the AUFC and the United Arab Defense and Security Corporation of the USAN have come to extensive agreements to formulate joint cooperation and exchanging of technology and production rights for the development of modernized, advanced military weapon systems and equipment. The ANDRC and the UADSC commitment to the protection of the Arab people and promotion of modern Arab ingenuity and innovation has become the driving force of expanded relations between the AUFC and the USAN amid the new course of development and action being witnessed in Baghdad. Abu Dhabi has indicated they are extremely excited and pleased to be further working with the new Abdulrahmanist state in the region to the North.
Chairman of the National Council on Defense & State Security Nasser bin Hamad al-Khalifa would give the following statement regarding the enhanced military cooperation between the two Arab nation-states:
[list][pre]Since the destruction of the Iranian Empire, there has been this gradual shifting of regional responsibility away from the Persians and back to the Arabs to take charge of the developments of our own people and land. This shift was originally recognized by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who decided that instead of annexation of the Gulf States and Southern Arabia into the Saudi Kingdom, thus destroying the historical national identities and inheritance of the 6 Arab Peninsula nations, we ought to come together in the formation of the Union-State of Arab Nations under the guiding ideology of Abdulrahmanism. Now the guiding principles of Marshall Abdulrahman has found its way into the Levant and Mesopotamia. With a central aligning ideology, the Arab Union of the Fertile Crescent and the Union-State of Arab Nations are representation of what Arabs can achieve when the proper mechanisms and motivations are present. I am thankful for this agreement made between our defense sectors and I am further confident that this is just the beginning of a true Arab Renaissance in the Middle East and Arab World.[/pre][/list]
[list][pre]منذ تدمير الإمبراطورية الإيرانية ، كان هناك هذا التحول التدريجي للمسؤولية الإقليمية بعيدًا عن الفرس والعودة إلى العرب لتولي مسؤولية تطورات شعبنا وأرضنا. أقرت المملكة العربية السعودية بهذا التحول في الأصل ، حيث قررت أنه بدلاً من ضم دول الخليج وجنوب الجزيرة العربية إلى المملكة العربية السعودية ، وبالتالي تدمير الهويات الوطنية التاريخية وميراث دول شبه الجزيرة العربية الست ، يجب أن نتحد معًا. في تشكيل الاتحاد ودولة الدول العربية في ظل الفكر العبدلي الرحماني. الآن وجدت المبادئ التوجيهية للمارشال عبد الرحمن طريقها إلى بلاد الشام وبلاد ما بين النهرين. يمثل الاتحاد العربي للهلال الخصيب واتحاد الدول العربية ، بإيديولوجية محاذاة مركزية ، ما يمكن للعرب تحقيقه عند وجود الآليات والدوافع المناسبة. أنا ممتن لهذه الاتفاقية التي تم التوصل إليها بين قطاعي الدفاع لدينا ، وأنا واثق من أن هذه مجرد بداية لنهضة عربية حقيقية في الشرق الأوسط والعالم العربي.[/pre][/list]
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Free as Always! Detailed, Creative, Storytelling![/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
Vancouver Straits / Peking Zhongguo
Yarosluv[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Yarosluv, Amsterwald, Philanialle, Asharken, Ranponian, Nileia, Somerania, Metropolitan Francais, Abessinienreich, New Provenance, Malagasia Bomoko
[list]February 2025
[sub]Helping[/sub]
[sup]Immigrants[/sup][/list]
PARLIAMENT BUILDING, NAGATACHO 1-7-1, CHIYODA DISTRICT, TOKYO METROPOLIS, Philanialle EVENING
[sub]HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, NATIONAL DIET[/sub]
| The House of Representatives, together with the House of Counselors are Japan's main legislative bodies Entering the House of Representatives, we can see that officials are organizing the Parliament, precisely marking the seats they can sit and those they cannot, to hold the distance only 2.0 meters between the MPs At the speech table on the podium, taking off his mask and stuffing it into his suit pocket, is PRIME MINISTER SUGA wearing a black suit with a light gray tie while an officer adjusts the Japanese flag that was behind Suga. |
[list]| [sub]AKINORI ETO, The Speaker[/sub] | To the honorable MPs present, I declare that the parliamentary session is open. I give the floor to Prime Minister Suga
| [sub]YOSHIHIDE SUGA, The Prime Minister[/sub] | Thank you, Mr. Speaker. First, good afternoon everyone . . . I propose a reform of social programs for immigrants, as everyone already knows, the main objective of this government is to encourage even more immigration in the country but before Japan receives a large wave of immigrants, let's give more benefits to immigrants who are arriving today so that our nation in the future becomes one of the top destinations for immigrants like Canada, Paramerica and Europe.[/list]
| The PRIME MINISTER takes a breath and then pauses to turn to the next page in his folder that says "Social Reform for Immigrants". |
[list]| [sub]YOSHIHIDE SUGA, The Prime Minister[/sub] | The reform will add three new programs to the current law, which will be the Children's Health Program (CHP) for immigrant families with a maximum of 2 to 3 children, Financial Assistance (AF) for poor immigrant families with an income of up to 400 Dollars (44,094.00 Yen) . . . and Food Distribution Program (FDP).[/list]
| Suga then closes the folder, puts the mask that was in the right pocket of the suit The Speaker of the House of Representatives who was quiet just listening to Suga . . . |
[list]| [sub]AKINORI ETO, The Speaker[/sub] | Any objections to this reform?[/list]
| All MPs present began to share their opinions among themselves. |
[list]| [sub]YURI SUZUKI, Member of the House of Representatives[/sub] | Mr. Speaker, I have a question.
| [sub]AKINORI ETO, The Speaker[/sub] | Now, handing the floor over to MP Suzuki.
| [sub]YURI SUZUKI, Member of the House of Representatives[/sub] | Mr. Prime Minister . . . will immigrant women have the same rights as Japanese women?[/list]
| The PRIME MINISTER YOSHIHIDE with the mask on his face he adjusts the microphone to respond. |
[list]| [sub]YOSHIHIDE SUGA, The Prime Minister[/sub] | Well, Mr Suzuki . . . All immigrants will be treated with respect and will need to stay in the country for a certain period of time to obtain Japanese citizenship then they will have the same rights as Japanese women.
| [sub]YURI SUZUKI, Member of the House of Representatives[/sub] | How many immigrant women need Japanese citizenship?
| [sub]YOSHIHIDE SUGA, The Prime Minister[/sub] | Before, to become a permanent resident in Japan, the immigrant needed to be in the country for exactly 5 years, now that number has dropped to 3 years To make it easier for immigrants to obtain Japanese citizenship.[/list]
| SUGA adjusts his tie before continuing. |
[list]| [sub]AKINORI ETO, The Speaker[/sub] | Any other objections before proceeding to the vote?[/list]
| All deputies present were silent and the Speaker Eto opened the vote. [sub](Result on Parliament Television: 60 were in favour, 30 were against and 10 abstained) Number of MPs was reduced from 300 to 100 to avoid crowding*[/sub] With the vote completed, Suga bows to the members of Parliament and steps away from the speech table. |
[list]| [sub]YOSHIHIDE SUGA, The Prime Minister[/sub] | Thanks Everyone.[/list]
| After voting in the House of Representatives, the reform would go to the House of Councillors, which also won by majority. |
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[sup]Emperor Naruhito Travels to Madrid[/sup][/list]
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EMPEROR NARUHITO ATTENDS THE CORONATION OF THE FUTURE QUEEN OF SPAIN
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1561257
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Nigeria begins planning of Vision 2100
Lagos Times
February 19, 2025
The Country's Future must be bright and shine into the Developed Country in Africa, With Vision 2100, that dream will be true.
Nigeria, in order to improve development and HDI, along with ease of doing Business, has annouced that it will plan Vision 2100, It is supposed to turn Nigeria into a developed/advanced country, and economic superpower in the future.
As Nigeria continues to improve it's economy through the Industrial and Technological Corridor Plans, that still won't be enough to turn Nigeria into an Economic Superpower, Vision 2100 will.
Currently, Vision 2100 is in planning and is now being planned by the Nigerian Ministries of Economy, Development and Environment, This is believed to bring a better future to the Nigerian People. As Nigeria suffers from Poverty and Poor Development, This will help the country kill it's problems. Nonetheless, Nigerian Government Officals are excitied about the Vision, as well as the People and Investors.
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Written by Refuge Isle.