Talk:The Far Future: New Frontier (Map Game)/@comment-26031225-20160629040855

Democratic Republic of the Congo
 * (Small Backstory): During the first half of the 21th century, the DRC had no effective leadership and it was in a constant civil war state, with multiple armed groups fighting over the control of the mining industry. It wasn't until late 2070s when Jacob Morunga came to power when DRC finally stabilized. Morunga declared war on all warlords and armed groups supported by foreign powers, effectively returning control of the nation to the Congolese goverment. A program for regularizing mining activities was established, and corrupt officials were arrested, leading to a gradual improvement of DRC's conditions. With the export of valuable resources such as coltan and cobalt, the Congolese economy reached the top on early 2100s. Due to Morunga leading an effective and strong goverment, the Congolese people actually began to benefit from the economic gains, and the quality of life improved. Morunga died on September 2111, after having ruled DRC for more than 30 years. He is now seen as the hero of the DRC by the congolese people, and thanks to his great leadership, the DRC is now one of the strongest nations in the African continent, in contrast to 2010s when the DRC was the one of the poorest nations on Earth. However, the economy is now focused in other sectors due to most major resources becoming extremly rare or running out. The standards of life are comprable to those of China, but are nowhere near to those of countries like WEF or The Impeirum.
 * Goverment: The DRC is currently ruled by Robert Maruge from the Nationalist Party, which holds a majority in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. Other relevant political parties include the left-wing Congolese People's Party and the centrist Democratic Union. Robert Maruge has focused on developing the Congolese Space program (founded in 2140) and improving the military.
 * Space Program: The DRC has a semi-developed space program and it is one of the leading african countries in this area (but it is still vastly inferior to countries like The Impeirum), and they only have an small space station that was built recently. However, with extensive goverment funding, ambitious plans for a colony in the Moon begin. The colony would be located somewhere in between the Mesopotamian and South African colonies. Some plans for eventual asteroid mining and Mars colonization were also made, but both of them will take up years to develop. For now, some progress has been made on the planned Moon colony and it is estimated that congolose people will be able to settle in The Moon in a few years.
 * Military:
 * Congolese Army: The Congolese Army is mostly made up of humans unlike other military branches. However it is expected that in the future the army will be completely automated to avoid losing lifes in war. The army has nearly one million active soldiers, at least 200,000 reserves and 100,000 robotic soldiers. It is worth mentioning that at least 8% of the human armed forces have some sort of artificial modification to improve their combat skills, thus making them "cyborgs" to some extent. The rest are equiped with a power armor and laser and gauss weapons, as well as a few EMP granades.
 * Congolese Land Forces: 
 * Congolese Air Forces:
 * Congolese Space Forces: Even though the DRC has no colonies in the space, a command called "Congolese Space Marines" was created in 2173. The CSM has 2,000 personeel and the space marines are mostly used for protecting the Congolese spaceships and the Mobuto Space Station. The DRC has no space warships yet, but it will have in the future.
 * Congolese Naval Forces:
 * Analytics:
 * Economy: The economy mostly depends of agriculture since mining as a major economic activity has nearly extinguished due to resources running out.
 * Demographics:
 * Population:The DRC is one of the most populated countries in Africa, with over 287 million people. Although the population reached a top in 2100 with nearly 400 million people, the goverment began an education and awareness program, promoting the use of condoms and other contraceptives, to avoid overpopulation. A law that restricted the number of child per family was also introduced, reducing it to two. Since the population has now stabilized at 275 million, the law is not being enforced anymore.
 * Language: Although more than 200 languages were spoken in DRC back in 2010s, the number has now reduced to ~40 because of globalization. The lingua franca used to be French, but since the Nationalist Party came to power, French was replaced by Lingála as the official language, along with Swahili. Around 80% of the population speaks Lingála, and nearly 45% speaks Swahili (either as first or second language). Other major languages are Kikongo and Tshiluba. It is also estimated that ~15% of the Congolese have some knowledge of French despite the efforts of the goverment for eliminating it.
 * Religion: Unlike most nations, the DRC is still a religious country, with 42% of the population following some form of christianity and 20% following another religion. The remaining 38% is non-religious.
 * Infraestructure: The DRC has a modernized infraestructure unlike poorer african countries, although not as modern as those of The Imperium and South Africa. New 3D printing facilities are also made in Kinshsha and Lubumbashi to cope with the military demand for new vehicles.
 * Wars & Conflicts:
 * Invasion of CAR: Congolese forces launch a surprise attack on the Central African Republic, occupying the capital city of Bangui and taking down the Central African goverment. However, CAR forces continue to resist in other areas and more squads are sent to take down the remaining forces while drones conduct massive air attacks. An uncontditional surrender is demanded.
 * Diplomacy:
 * Central African Republic: The DRC demands the unconditional surrender of the remaining CAR forces. Otherwise they will be completely destroyed.
 * Republic of Congo: Although relations were not exactly the best during the unstable era back in 2010s, relations sorta improved during the Morunga rule. Because of this, Maruge proposes the creation of a Federation called "Congolese Union", inviting the Republic of Congo to become part of it, stating that they will be autonomous.
 * The Imperium: The DRC wishes to keep good relations with The Imperium and they request an alliance a free trade agreement. They also say that they can get a piece of CAR's territory if they want to.
 * Angola: The DRC requests to buy the Cabinda enclave from Angola since it has no practical use for them, and the DRC needs coastline.
 * Anda Confederation: Ever since the Nationalist Party came to power, relations with the Confederacy have been complicated due to the past involvement of Rwanda and Uganda in DRC's affairs. The DRC goverment has also been preparing "Operation Retribution" that will deal with the Anda Confederation, but no information about it has been released and it remains a secret.