Talk:Liberty (Map Game)/@comment-26044830-20200102045805

Federal Freedom Fighters

 * Organisation:
 * Commander (Group Leader): Gary Wellington
 * The Government: The government serves as the body of local and state management for FFF's occupied cities. The Chief of Internal Affairs is served as the 'leader' of what the FFF controls. It is partially separate to the FFF at the lowest level of governance (local communities have their own local community leader but has to be loyal somehow), but it has a lot of ties to it as higher the ranks go, especially the mayors and some representatives: about 35% have no ties but loyalty instead to the FFF while 65% were known to have active links or were members directly (which is 15% out of all).
 * Chief of Internal Affairs (Second-in-Command): Danielle Clover
 * Chief Representative (Legislative Speaker): Henry E. Wells
 * Mayors:
 * Mayor of Flint: Armond Reid
 * Mayor of Detroit: vacant
 * Mayor of Ann Arbor: vacant
 * Centre of Operation: Flint, MI (and its underground tunnel network)
 * 2009 Legislative Elections: From 26th-29th May 2009, about 67.5% of residents in FFF's occupied cities have voted in the 2009 legislative elections for the newly founded Representative Council. The results of that percentage would go on to become the number of seats in the Representative Council. Elections should be held annually at best around the Q2 (April-June) range since halfly is hectic at best and turnout enthusiasm would be lower. This is to ensure that democracy is being restored in a way that makes sense. There were also few other parties that were also founded too, but none had come close to three large parties that people have voted the most. (see below)
 * Liberty and Democracy: The predominant party that most people voted, particularly the millennial set. They aim to restore the United States and a democratic system in place that is not so similar to the pre-1993 government.
 * Classical Democratic Party: A direct democratic party that wants to separate Michigan and any other states into an independent state. They also want a different federal system in mind, one where it is not bound to normal US state boundaries. Again, millennials vote for it because why not, but not Gen X or even the Boomers.
 * Michigan Workers' Party: Influenced perhaps from the rising USSA movements in Ohio, these appeal to the worker class and those who want to join the communist revolution. It is not popular in the FFF and the alliance with McCain meant that their voter base is lower than expected. However, many should warn that it could pose a threat to current democracy imposed by the FFF.
 * The Representative Council: The generically named Representative Council is made up of 30 seats from each of the FFF's own occupied cities, including the rest of Detroit, although much of its voter base is exclusively in the outer suburbs of Detroit. They have legislative power over local cities and towns that the FFF controls. There are three major parties that were elected into the newly created Representative Council.
 * Liberty and Democracy: 23 (77%)
 * Classical Democratic Party: 5 (16%)
 * Michigan Workers' Party: 2 (7%)
 * Personnel:
 * Militants:
 * Armed Militants: 2,100 (+700)
 * Unarmed and Untrained Militants: 550 (+150)
 * Informers: 100 (-50)
 * Administration:
 * Administrators: 70 (+30)
 * Educators: 5 (+5)
 * Financiers: 170 (+50)
 * Propagandists: 280 (+60)
 * Cyberoperators: 40 (+10)
 * Other Full-Time Roles: 380 (+140)
 * Unassigned / Voluntary Roles: 300 (-120)
 * Total: 3,995 (+915)
 * Statistics:
 * Weapons:
 * Firearms: 4,000 firearms. Some of them are modified or came as automatic through smuggling, acquisition from households or bought from the black market. They are primarily of various make and design.
 * Other Ranged Equipment: Roughly 2,400 homemade molotov cocktails/petrol bombs used to target Confederate soldiers and pro-Confederate law enforcement to set them on fire. 46 hunting bows and 5 crossbows are used for distraction.
 * Explosives: 8 successfully made remote bombs, 80 firework rockets, 2 grenades (somewhat smuggled in and looted from occasional Detroit patrols)
 * Melee: 1,020 kitchen knives, 140 lumberjack axes (and vice versa), 50 Swiss Army knives, 2 military-styled daggers and 24 hunting knives used for melee and close combat.
 * Cities: This is for reference and I do these statistics because they help me calculate the final population as of 2008. I will stop mentioning that there are other Detroit refugees beyond Lansing/Grand Rapids, MI and Toledo, OH. They get sparse later on so no point.
 * Flint: 65,000 (50,000 [whites] + 15,000 Detroit refugees)
 * Detroit: 148,000 (2,045,872 [outer suburbs] * 0.3 [remainder] * 0.25 [white percentage])
 * Ann Arbor: 107,000 (80,000 [whites] + 24,000 Detroit refugees + 3,000 Asians, since they are fully segregated but slowly reduced by relocation 1990 census says 7.7% were Asian if we go OTL)
 * Saginaw (est., not final): 66,000 (24,000 [whites] + 38,000 Detroit refugees)
 * Lansing (est., not final): 130,600 (74,600 [whites] + 56,000 Detroit refugees)
 * Diplomacy: N/A
 * Reconnaissance:
 * Lansing: There were 25 purged by the police after being deployed there, but at least five of them are still present in Lansing. With some numbers being replenished to 20, dissident is continued to be spread through letters, along with 'love' letters to vulnerable politicians by mailing is being made, with some money and promises into it to persuade them to access sensitive information regarding the Confederacy and activities in Michigan.
 * State of Michigan: Most of them are purged, down to just 15, but new informer recruits are being sent again, so it is raised back up to 60 this time. Same thing with Lansing, they are bribing local vulnerable politicians. Stealing information from Confederate politicians is now largely on online presence so their operations would be called off.
 * Operations:
 * Acquisition of Detroit (Q2 2008 - Q1 2009):
 * Stage 1 (Q2-Q3 2008): Get close to Detroit as much as possible (after expanding and pushing further to the east), acquire and forge visas to access Detroit as a precaution. (Successful)
 * Stage 2 (Q4 2008): Count the population of what remains of Detroit (since most have fled on 1993), recruit those disgruntled and angered by the Confederacy into the FFF. Exploration of Core Detroit will be done by select few militants with gas masks before moving forward in securing Detroit's surroindings. (Successful)
 * Stage 3 (Q1 2009): Occupy the rest of the 'insecure' part of eastern Michigan and outer Detroit before moving onto Saginaw, Ann Arbor and Lansing. Core Detroit would also need to be secured as well by occupying all the outer suburbs of Detroit. The Canadian side of the Detroit metropolitan area, Windsor, will not be scouted or occupied since it is controlled by fascist Canada (not a top priority of the FFF's interests), not the Confederacy. (Successful)
 * Westward Plans (Q1 2009 - Q3 2009/Q1 2010):
 * Stage 1 (Q1 2009 - Q2 2009): Push for Saginaw and Bay City, seizing them at will, along with the sparsely populated areas of  east Michigan. Infiltration and propaganda letters are also being sent to Saginaw and Lansing too to spread anger and hate for the Confederacy, convincing them to prepare at least for the inevitable. Michigan politicians that are loyal to the Confederacy have their bank accounts and information compromised and to be exposed to the public. (In Progress)
 * Stage 2 (est. Q3 2009 - Q4 2009): Lansing is directly targeted. For other places like Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, more propaganda letters are to be sent there too to convince the same message of hate for the Confederacy. The aim is to ensure that the capital of Michigan falls and that with the occupation of Lansing, the FFF is to make a speech to all people of Michigan to rise up to the public. Exposing Confederate politicians of Michigan is also to be made around that time. (Planned)
 * Stage 3 (est. Q4 2009 - Q1/Q2 2010): Literally "all hell breaks loose". Michigan (except Upper Peninsula) is seized completely through force. At this point, the secondary goal of taking Toledo, OH and other state towns and cities (esp. Chicago) would be staged, but no formal plan is done yet. (Planned) 
 * Events:
 * Where to Invade Next, pt. 2: An assault on Saginaw and Bay City is advanced. With even more militants signed up to fight against the Confederacy and driving three pickup trucks filled with prepped molotov cocktail material (about roughly 100 each) in boxes, along with two bombs to target any Confederate police or military holding/outpost in Saginaw, 1,000 militia have stormed into the somewhat more difficult city to capture with numbers and attacked Confederate security personnel there. In other places, the occupation of eastern Michigan continues with smaller numbers. The march towards Lansing is commenced too, with 600 militia from Ann Arbor and other cities that the FFF has occupied heading towards the capital city. Once Saginaw falls to the hands of the FFF, the 800 militia of the rest will then be diverted to take Lansing on both eastern and northern fronts. There's also a smaller push in the south towards Toledo, but nothing substantial. The goals of exposing Confederate politicians of Michigan and their security is still a high priority, which is explained below.
 * Impending Doom for Sympathisers, pt. 2: Hacking bank accounts of any sympathetic Confederate politicians in Michigan continues into the second quarter of 2009, but any of those with personality traits that can be deemed as vulnerable or exploited are excluded. The same process of exposing more information and secrets of Confederate politicians and generals in Michigan also continues through hacking too, with informers being called off from gathering information about them this time in favour of spreading dissident in Lansing and some other places (in smaller numbers though since the FFF lost a lot). The process of bribing vulnerable Confederate politicians that may harbour thoughts of the FFF is been processed and executed. A preliminary 'loyalty' test is being used to check on the collected personalities and whether they would be fit and stay loyal to the FFF's goals of exposing other and more high-ranking Confederate politicians in Michigan. Once they are deemed possibly loyal whenever they are bribed, money is being funnelled with ~$1,800,000 looted from banks (not too much, the FFF needs to maintain a huge financial asset and that there is some high scepticism surrounding existing Confederate politicians) through concealed 'love' letters to select vulnerable politicians. [mod response required]
 * Recuperating Informer Numbers: The arrests and purges of informers were high enough that replenishing them in numbers has outpaced with the number of informers arrested and disappeared. At least some were willing to become informers with more cities coming into control and signing up for membership within the FFF. However, this time, it is a different environment: they have to be ready to send bribe mails and have to avoid catching the presence of the FBI and the Confederacy. So, it is a do or die situation and numbers have gone down for informers unfortunately. The next mission took most of the informer numbers to the maximum resources that the FFF has to offer.
 * Educational Restart: A year on, there are about very few people beginning to sign up to restart education. There is no huge fund or a big push from the FFF's own self-managed government yet, they are a voluntary task of teachers who held negative sentiment against the Confederacy in the past (the Confederate curriculum has emphasised biology, eugenics, race and history over arts, creativity, expression and freedom of thought) and still do now. Weekly, makeshift classes in libraries and community centres would be held for children aged 15 and lower, but since these are voluntary, there are no incentives and only few dozen would show up at best. These aims of teaching children in these makeshift classes are for deradicalisation purposes - something that the FFF has something to consider in the future, but not yet pushed as they do not have the funding and that administration is just beginning to form and solidify this year.
 * Ideological Things in the FFF: As in the 2009 elections held above, the FFF has seen a diverse amount of people voting for different principles and beliefs for what they should bring for Michigan and beyond. This may even shift in the next year's election, with more cities and people falling into the hands of the FFF, more seats would be created and any of the three parties could ultimately change the fate of the FFF.
 * Finance (repeat excerpt from previous turns): Any form of looting and tampering of ATMs and banks, along with any valuables like weapons and resources to make bombs are still being made. For budgeting, the FFF will invest in money for munitions and weapons in the black market, but there will be some of it being stored in underground Flint.