Talk:The Future: Eve of War/@comment-26031225-20160329062404

Unión Bolivariana de la Gran Colombia:
 * Goverment: As Mexico accepts UBGC's proposal, the Pan-American Federation is formed, a nation with the potential to challenge the power of the USME and even of the LU. The main members of this federations are the UBGC and Mexico, with both of them running all the affairs of the new nation. Nicaragua and Costa Rica, two former Colombian vassals, are ceded to Mexico, therefore becoming part of the Mexican entity within the federation. As for the Caribbean Confederacy, it also becomes part of the PAF but still under the control of the UBGC, as they were vassals before. Bolivarian Brazil on the other hand remains outside from the PAF but still under the control of the UBGC, it will be slowly integrated into the Union. As for the Bolivarian colony in Africa, it is given an special status, "West Africa Overseas territory", but again still under the control of the UBGC.
 * Economy: The economy of the UBGC is not massive, but still quite relevant in the international stage, and with the formation of the PAF, it will surely continue to grow for the next years, since the UBGC in particular owns lands with many valuable resources and also has a considerable ammount of workforce which increases the development of industries in the main cities, tourism is also an important economic activity due to the Caribbean.
 * Colonies & Vassals:
 * West African Overseas Territory/Nueva Colombia: A big project for making the land arable begins, with the goal of turning the colony into a basket case, technices from a few Omani refugees will be used in this project. Big amounts of sand from the Sahara desert will also be used in the land filling and artificial islands projects. For the last years the cities of former Western Sahara and Northern Mauritania have expanded, and the population has increased, along with colonizers. The culture has been slowly been assimilated through the years, but it will take a while to complete, however it does decreases the risks of a revolt.
 * Caribbean Confederacy: The bolivarian navy and air force start perfoming military excercises in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, near Confederate territorial waters. The navy increases patrolling as tensions with the CSA increase due to the fascist rebellion in Mexico.
 * Military & Technology: During 2030s, the UBGC focused on developing the scientific and medical areas, as well as military technology. With this being said, the UBGC has one of the biggest laboratories in the world, located in Bogotá, it is dedicated to research on diseases and other areas of medicine. Thanks to the goverment efforts, the UBGC has the benefit of having a very advanced healthcare system, having erradicated diseases such as Zika and Chikungunya from the areas through the late 2030s and also reduced the AIDS infection rate greatly, and with the help of cuban doctors it has been able to develop drugs to help treat Alzheimer and Cancer, but there isn't a total cure for these diseases yet. Moving on into military technology, it has been improved to an above average rate throught the years due to the UBGC being a major powers, with notable mentions being Railguns IV and III, exo-suits, modernized aircraft carriers and others (rip-off from WOWW, haven't had many ideas lately). The UBGC has also developed an anti-air defense system that is capable of taking down enemy planes that try to enter Colombian territory, but of course it's not perfect. The military focus right now is developing artillery pieces with railguns on them, which will be used mostly for defence, the navy is also being improved, with new vessels being built every year. The paramilitary group known as "Salvaguardias de la Nación" created nearly 10 years is still active and it has reached 350K members recently, they still recieve elite training in guerrilla warfare and they're trained in the Amazonas, they're considered the most powerful group of the country's armed forces, despite being a paramilitary group, since they use railguns and exo-suits like the regular military does. The total number of the armed forces between the active, reserve and paramilitary soldiers is around 3.1 million.
 * Infraestructure: Urban centers have been expanding through the years, with cities like Bogotá, Quito, Medellín, Maracaibo and Caracas becoming bigger and more modernized. With this comes a population boost to the UBGC, although the population doesn't increases as much as in the LU and Mexico. Industries and corporations rise in the major cities.
 * War against Nigeria: Although the UBGC planned a big-scale attack on Nigeria, the attack is now smaller as the UBGC is focused in the political process of the PAF. In total, 75,000 are sent to support the coalition countries, landing in Occitanian and Rumanian controlled Cameroon, however they claim no land as they are only there to help Rumas and Occitania to gain more land in the front as the UBGC likes them more than NKU. The UBGC also shares some military technologies with the Sakhoum Commonwealth, such as the newest railgun models.
 * Energy: Much of the country has switched to renewable sources of energy since the 2030s, with solar and wind energy being the most popular. Gasoline has also slowly started to get in disuse as electrical cars become standard in most of the country. Oil is only used for military means by now
 * Culture: The culture of the UBGC is mostly the same through all the country, with little differences between Colombia, Panamá, Ecuador, Venezuela, etc. However, the reason for this homogenous tendency is that the cultures of the nations have been merging through the years, forming a quite diverse culture and language which is officially "Spanish" (Portuguese is also official) though both the language and the culture have taken elements from portuguese and brazilian culture, as well as the traditional influence of the native culture in the country's culture. There are also small influences from the japanese, whom have been invited to stay in the UBGC. Esceosian christianity has also spread into the UBGC but to a very limited scale, with around 300 followers now, mostly esceosian diaspora. The first Esceosian Christianity church is built in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
 * Artificial islands and land filling projects:: The new president of the UBGC decides to experiment with something "new" (not really) for the UBGC with the excuse of tourism; Artificial islands. Since they have never been made in a larger scale, the first ones will be finished and located in the Caribbean as the president plans to create the World's largest archipielago. A related project called land filling is also started, which is expanding the coastlines in order to turn sea into land, the first "land bridge" begins in Eastern Cuba, and it will be finished next year, the goal is to connect Cuba with Hispaniola. Sand from the Sahara is used in both projects.
 * Diplomacy:
 * Nigerian War: The UBGC announces that they won't claim any lands in the Nigerian conflict despite having initial claim, this was caused by the increasing, massive expansionism of europeans into Africa, which the UBGC prefers not to emulate. However, the UBGC will still assist Sahakoum in the conflicts and troops are sent to help Occitanians and Rumanians in the Camerooon front.
 * Rumas & Occitania: Relationships increase due to thr collaboration in Nigeria and because the UBGC is starting to dislike NKU's expansionism and views Rumas and Occitania as more "moderate".
 * Esceosia: Although Esceosia has been one of the UBGC's closest allies through the years, the UBGC disapproves the recent Esceosian expansionism into Africa, although this could be due to USME's expansionism. The UBGC warns Esceosia about expanding too quickly and that it could lead to inestability and revolts, specially in Algeria, and therefore suggests making it a protectorate or vassal part of the African Union as well. Despite this, the UBGC sends a proposal to Esceosia about reforming the AFA and creating an Upper Council consisting of Esceosia, Rumas, PAF, Indian Union and the Sahakoum Commonwealth. They also propose kicking out the NKU due to their "stupid" decisions of attacking Burma and Japan, and their actitude of warmonger.
 * Oman: The UBGC starts providing economical, humanitarian and military support to the newly settled Omanis in East Africa as it was promised last year. They ask for their permission for sending military, humanitarian and scientific personnel to their territory, in order to help them clean the remaining radiation and improve the quality of life of their citizens in the newly colonized wastelands. This is also done to protect them from an attack from the USME or another foreign powers who tries to attack them.
 * Sahakoum Commonwealth: The UBGC tries to improve relations with the Sahakoum in contrast with the european colonizers, more trade agreements are signed and diplomatic relations are improved. They urge them to stay within the AFA (under the AU's banner as it was agreed) despite the recent disputes with Esceosia. A presidential visit is scheduled for the next year.
 * Confederate States of America:Tensions reach a maximum level due to the failure of the fascist coup in Mexico and the creation of the PAF. Troops are movilized in the naval and land borders with the CSA in case of a war.
 * United States of the Middle East: Relations with the USME decrease since the UBGC is concerned by the aggresive behavior of the USME lately, especially towards allied countries like Sahakoum and Italy, and they start viewing them as part of the fascist bloc rather than neutrals. The UBGC condemns their expansionism and aggresivnes but that's it.
 * New Kalmar Union: Relations begin to decline despite being in the same alliances especially due to the attack on Japan and the NKU's overall warmonger and imperialist behavior.