Talk:The Future: Eve of War/@comment-26031225-20160509041836

Unión Bolivariana de la Gran Colombia:
 * Goverment & Politics: Presidential elections take place in the UBGC this year, since Simón Guitierrez's mandate is going to end in January 2047. This year is marked by a lot of political tensions in the entire country. It all started with the split of the official party, the Bolivarian Party (BP), the party that has been in power under different names since 2020s. The Bolivarian split occurs in early 2046, when an important sector of the party declares the creation of the Socialist Party of Gran Colombia (SPGC). The SPGC, conformed by the most leftist and radical wing of the BP, claims that the Bolivarian Party has been corrupted after years and years in power, and that they do not represent Bolívar's ideals anymore. The leaders of the BP are in shock, and they respond to the accusations by accusing the SPGC of trying to split the country and the people. Because of the split, the Bolivarian Party is renamed to the Unified Bolivarian Party, after merging with the remaining small parties that supported BP's ideology. Meanwhile, the Conservative Party continues to radicalize and as they name Luis Donaldo Trompas as their candidate, it is becoming clear to some people that the CP is actually a fascist-backed party under the mask of conservartism.
 * 2046 Presidential Elections: As the elections get closer, all major parties choose their candidates, notably the UBP, SPGC and the CP. Prior to the elections, two presidential debates are held and a campaign period is given to the candidates, with Jorge Quinteros, the candidate of the party in power, leading in all the polls with a 10% percent margin at the least. However, this margin is quite small when compared to these of other candidates in the past, which worries the PBU about losing the election due to the PSGC spliting the vote for them. Meanwhile, the Comservative Party continues its rise, scoring higher in the polls than in the past two elections, something probably caused by the coverage that the media gives to Donaldo Trompas, the most controversial candidate by far. Elections are held on July 1st.
 * Candidates:
 * Jorge Quinteros (PBU/UBP): The candidate of the BP establishement and expected to win with a narrow margin. He was choosen due to being mayor of Bogotá and governor of Cundinamarca in the past. His proposals are pretty much based in countinuing the current policies of Guitierrez's goverment, highlighting the achievements of the Bolivarian administration. He leads in all major polls through the entire campaign.
 * Teodoro Guevara (PSGC/SPGC): Guevara was choosen as the candidate of the Socialist Party of Gran Colombia with practically no opposition, due to being considered the founder and the "moral leader" of the party anyways. His campaign is mostly focused in attacking Quinteros, criticizing the big military budget and the fact that the UBGC owns colonies, stating that they should be independent and that the UBGC should reduce military budget and focus more in domestic issues.
 * Luis Donaldo Trompas (PC/CP): Donaldo Trompas was choosen as the candidate of the Conservative Party after winning an extremly contested and controvertial primary election, defeating his main opponent, Ted Cruz. Trompas is by far the most extremist candidate, proposing things such as disolving the PAF, break relations with Mexico, increase relations with the Latin Union and restore relations with all fascist countries, leave the AFA, build a wall with Mexico in Panamá since they "stole" rightful colombian land according to him, among other things. The coverage that the medie gives him, his populism and corporate support make his popularity skyrocket, even surpassing Teodoro Guevara in most polls with a 15% margin.
 * Grabriel Quadri de la Torre (PVGC-PNA/GPGC-NAP): Presented as the "alternative option" to the extremist CP and SPGC and the traditional UBP, Quadri makes different proposal, taking elements from the left and the right, with his main focus being increasing the scientific and space programs. He scores less than 5% in all major national polls.
 * Results: With 99.98% of the votes counted, the results are the following; Jorge Quinteros gets 38.25% of the popular vote and carries 21 states + 2 territories (Ghana and Sahara) + D.F (Bogotá), Luis Donaldo Trompas gets 31.75% of the popular vote and carries 18 states, Teodoro Guevara gets 27.17% of the popular vote and carries 9 states and Gabriel Quadri de la Torre gets just 2.83% of the popular vote, gaining no states. Jorge Quinteros is declared the official winner the next day, and the Bolivarian Party celebrates across the country, even though no one expected an small victory margin, or Donaldo Trompas at second place. Quinteros' mandate will begin in January 10th, 2047.
 * War against ISII: After the Bogotá attacks of 13-N, the Bolivarian goverment massively increases the ammount of resources used against ISII, now conducting air strikes in ISII-controlled areas. 40,000 men are sent as reinforcements in the war against ISII, along with the new models of railgun tanks. However, the 13-N attacks also have other kind of repercutions, for example, islamophobia is increasing across the country, even though the number of muslims in the country is lower than ~50,000, it is especially promoted by the former presidential candidate, Donaldo Trompas, who suggested to deport them all and to not allow Indonesian refugees in the country.
 * Military: 
 * Pan-American Army: With the merge of Mexico, Caribbean and Brazil, the total number of the military ascends to 8,840,000 troops distributed among all military branches. Most of them are placed in military bases in the border with the Latin Union in preparation for WW3. This is also done for the CSA to a lesser extent. There's also an estimate of 100,000 troops outside of the Federation (whether in Indonesia, Occitania, or others). Among the regular military equipment are the Railgun VI and Railgun V (currently used by 95% of the troops, Railgun V will be eventually replaced by Railgun VI completely), the BC-SPN Exo-Suit (most modern and powerful version of the PAF exo-suits) and some experimental thermal detonators (like grenades but more dank). Officially, the PAF has no supersoldiers, except for the first 36 created in the Spartan project, but these remain a secret.
 * Ground Forces: With the formation of PAF and the upcoming WW3, production is greatly increased. The current ground forces are composed by 2212 railgun tanks of all models (1212 are the BV-17 type, 500 are BV-10, 20 are BQ-89 and the rest are either BV-18 or some other modified version) 332 regular tanks, 467 armored fighting vehicles, ~10,000 artillery pieces (a couple also use a railgun especifically designed for them, called Railgun H-40), 2 experimental AT-ATs and around 2350 supply and transport trucks.
 * Naval Forces: Gutierrez orders the construction of a couple military ports in a couple cities in Sahara, including Agadir and El Aiún, with the goal of protecting these areas in case of an invasion. Major military ports in the PAF include Veracruz, Mérida, Matamoros, Quito, Guadalajara, Corpus Christi, La Havana, San Juan, Maracaibo,  Cartagena and Belém. The current Naval forces are the following; 3 Bolívar class aircraft carriers (UBGC) and 5 Águila class aircraft carriers (Mexico), 93 battleships,  91 frigates, ~100 submarines and 198 transport ships.
 * Air Forces:  The combined PAF Air Forces have 634 fighter planes, 824 bombers, 2016 helicopters and 1911 transport planes. The Pan-American Air Force is created after meging all of the air forces, and researching on a new fighter plane codename Project Canales begins, it is basically a regular fighter jet with the difference of having a more resistant armor and that it uses railguns. Adittionally, it is worth mentioning that the PAF has a couple types of drones totalling 1,500 of them. At least 700 of these have a railgun, and around 20 use small laser weapons (the laser ones are called "Drones Relámpago" or DR, and they are only used in special operations).
 * Robotic Forces: The number of robotic soldiers is 55,000 and the PAF doesn't plans to increase it too much as they prefer quality over quantity and they don't want to replcae humans either, unless people start demanding it.
 * Space Forces: With the PAF acquiring spacial colonies and starting to mine in The Moon, the Pan-American Space Command (PASC) is created for space defense affairs. At least 300 Space Marines are recruited this year and they are sent to protect the miners and colonizers in the Martian and The Moon colonies.
 * Technology: As stated above, the UBGC cotinues to develop most military technologies and also begins a variety of new projects, notably the BX-130, AT-ATs and the MJOLNIR power armor project.
 * BX-130 & AT-ATs [Project Caracas]: After seeing how countries like the CSA and Rumas begin developing AT-ATs and AT-STs, from the Star Wars Movie Series, the president thought that it would be actually be a good idea to create military technologies based in what has been seen in media, as he really likes some of them and is an Star Wars fan himself. Therefore, Project Caracas, named after the city where it is mostly done (it was choosen because of its industry); starts in early 2046. It has been decided that, unlike other countries, AT-STs will not be developed as it has a major disadvantage, which is their dificulty to achieve balance due to the weak legs of their design. Instead, the main focus is developing an armored fighting tank called "BX-130 Saber-class fighting tank" or BX-130 for short. It is basically an armored, fast attack tank equiped with twin laser cannons, a large payload of missiles and a railgun beam (or gauss cannon) turret. However, since the cost of such powerful vehicle is extremly high, it will take many years to be fully developed and not many units will be produced. The entire BX-130 plans are kept in complete secret, since the UBGC doesn't wants others to copy or steal this idea. Meanwhile, the first AT-ATs are also being built, although it will also take a few years, they will be equiped with Railgun VI cannons for now since the laser cannons are not yet developed. By the end of the year, 2 experimental AT-ATs are created, but they are not equiped with Railgun VI yet. Then again, most of the funding goes to the BX-130 project, as it is seen as the "ultimate weapon" by the UBGC.
 * Railgun tanks: The UBGC develops a new model of the railgun tank this year,  the BV-18. It is equiped with the newly researched Railgun VI, and after passing quality testings it is proven effective and mass production begins. The BV-18 is capable of shooting a long wave of electric projectiles rather than shooting a single charge, making it more effective than the older models. Currently, there are four models of the railgun tank; BV-18, BV-17 (most common one, equiped with Railgun V and not capable of shooting a long wave of electric projectiles), BQ-89 (Under early experimental phase, planned to include a gauss cannon) and BV-10 (Outdated, they were the first railgun tanks and use Railgun I, II and III, they will be completly renplaced by the BV-18 and the BQ-89 in the future).
 * Railgun VI: The Railgun VI is fully developed after years of research, making the PAF the first country to use it along with others like LU, PC and EC. As always, they are slowly replacing the old railgun models in the Armed Forces. It has also been planned that the Railgun VII will be the final model produced by the UBGC, since, according to president Guitierrez "Kek, it's always the same thing, we should stop at one point with these models and just update them sometimes to keep up with countries like dank Esceosia and the topkek Rumas".
 * MJOLNIR Power Armor & Project Spartan: Although the UBGC already has quite a lot of exo-suits, they decide to go further and create their first power armor. The armor and the project are named MJOLNIR. The Mjolnir power armor will act as an exo-skeleton designed to vastly improve the strenght, speed, agility and reflexes of the person wearing it. However, it will weight the incredible ammount of half a ton, or 1000 lbs. The reason for this is that said power armor will not be used by regular soldiers, but by supersoldiers instead. Since the UBGC has zero supersoldiers, Dr. Catarina Gómez starts "Project Spartan", a project for enchancing the capabilities of an human being to the limit, creating the "ideal supersoldier". People with certain characteristics are choosen for the program, since not everyone would be capable of resisting the biological augmentation process. The people choosen for the program are previously studied by Dr. Catarina herself (yeah, what a stalker), and later on they are kidnapped by goverment forces and their identity is simply deleted from everywhere, their deaths are often faken in order to avoid any suspects. Once they are in the training center, they are told why they were choosen, and Catarina highlights the advantages of being part of such project, they are forced to accept into the program anyways. Every subject goes through an initial, extensive military training, even more extensive than the one given to elite military forces. After months of training, 50 subjects are choosen, and they undergo biological augmentation. Not all of them survive, and only 36 are succesfully turned into the first bolivarian supersoldiers. Meanwhile, the MJOLNIR armor is being researched as a related project.
 * Laser weapons & Gauss Cannon [Part of Project Caracas]: Since laser cannons are required for making an effective AT-AT, a sub-project of Project Caracas named Project Correa for developing laser weapons and gauss cannons begins. The objective is creating a new generation of weapons, by renplacing railguns for enchanced laser weapoms by late 2050s. For now, the main focis is creating a laser cannon, and a gauss cannon is also being developed in order to include it in military vehicles
 * Economy: The economy continues to improve at a normal rate, although slowling down a bit for the UBGC part due to all the recent military spendings. However, as always, the trade with the AFA and the economic powerhouse of Mexico and UBGC combined will keep the economy healthy for a long time.
 * Land filling project: The UBGC decides to continue with the artificial islands and land filling projects this year, once again focusing in one of their vassals, the Caribbean Confederacy. After the succes and the positive impact of the "land bridge" previously made between Cuba and Hispaniola, another one is made is in the eastern part of Hispaniola, to connect it with the island of Puerto Rico. More artificial islands are also made near the Antilles area, in the Caribbean Sea, after using huge ammounts of sand taken from Bolivarian Sahara a couple years ago for producing said islands and land bridges.
 * Colonies & Vassals: Through this year, the UBGC focuses a little more on improving a few things in its vassals and colonies, such as infraestrcuture.
 * Brazil: The country, although quite small compared to the Latin part of Brazil, is still able to reach around 34 million people by the end of the year (33,876,112 according to official 2045 census). Elections are also held here this year, with the Bolivarian Party of Brazil winning over the Socialist Party of Brazil with a 14% difference. The goverment focuses in improving the industry of major cities such as Fortaleza, Recife and Manaos, and in contributing to the creation of the Pan-American Highway.
 * Caribbean: Just like it already happened in UBGC and Brazil, elections are held this year in Caribbean, being the last ones of the year (UBGC were first and Brazil's were second). The elections are filled with accusations of corruption and controversies, mainly caused by the extremly narrow margin between the two leading candidates of the presidential elections, since Roberto Fierro, from Caribbean Bolivarian Party, obtained 39.89% of the popular and Aquíles Castro from the Communist Party of the Caribbean gained 39.52% of the popular vote. After this, many political groups refused to recognize the legitimacy elections, due to alleged irregularities in the process. For solving this issue and trying to ease the tensions, Roberto Fierro is named president and Aquíles Castro is named vicepresident. This decision didn't satisfy the communists completely, but it was fair enough for them to accept. However, troubles started to appear after the new vicepresident refused to continue with the land filling and artificial islands project, while the president suppirted it strongly. These sort of issues, where the vicepresident and president can't agree, are to be solved by the Caribbean Congress, with a Bolivarian majority. The trouble was solved and the project continued without any other problems, once again recieving support from the Bolivarian sector of the population and the president himself.
 * Sahara Bolivariano (West Africa): After the formal integration of the colony as an overseas territory and the expansion into more of Morocco (the Rabat agreements with Occitania), Puerto Agadir becomes the capital of the territory, as it is the bigger city with 1.6 million inhabitants. Agadir's infraestrcuture is vastly improved and modernized, in order to make it one of the most developed city in Africa. In other matters, a project known as "Neo-África" begins, the plan is creating a bunch of lakes in all of the Sahara desert by making deppresions by removing huge quantities of sand (which is already being done for the landfilling project), and then making a canal named "Juby Canal", which would create a river that would irrigate all the lakes in Sahara from Atlantic Waters, thus making Sahara green, and no longer a desert. The project will take a couple years, but progress has already been done since the first artificial lakes in central Sahara (former north Mauritania) are made. In demographics, the population of the Sahara Bolivariano territory ascends to 5.8 million people; Around 800,000 are from hispanic origin (either from Mexico, UBGC, Iberia, etc, not just UBGC) as hispanic mmigration has been encouraged by the UBGC ever since Mauritania and WS were adquired. The other 5 million are mostly Arab and Berber, with some other minorities. Religion is 74% Islam, Christianity of all kinds is 23% (mostly catholic), 2% is other religions and the remaining 1% has no religion, is agnostic or atheist. Official languages include Arab, Spanish, French and Bereber tongues. The main languages are Arab and Spanish, but French and the Bereber languages are official as well as mentioned before. 98% of the populations has some knowledge of Arab, and 41% of Spanish, as the teaching of this language has been encouraged since WS became part of UBGC. 13% of people are fluent in French.
 * Costa Dorada (Ghana): Industrialization becomes the top priority in the newly acquired colony of Costa Dorada (former Ghana). Cities like Accra are being expanded and modernized in order to exploit their capacity by using native labor force. Bussinessman from Colombia, Caribbean and Mexico are invited to the colony to lead mining industries. The main resources being extracted from the colony are gold, diamonds and cocoa. It is also worth mentioning that Spanish is being taught in schools in order to spread Hispanic culture further into Africa. Currently, only 12,000 PAF citizens live in the colony.
 * Infraestructure: 
 * Bolívar Tower: Gutiérrez announces the construction of the Bolívar Tower in Bogotá in order to commemorate his last year of goverment. The tower isestimated to measure 1630 meters or 1.6 kilometers, becoming the tallest building in all of PAF and one of the tallest in the entire world. The project will take a few years to complete, and this year only the initial phase is done.
 * Pan-American Highway: The Pan-American Highway begins its contruction. Multiple highways are connected with each other in order to connect all parts of the country. The current highways are also modernized.
 * Space Program: The Pan-American Space Agency (PASA) is created after merging the old UBGC Space Agency with the Mexican one  .
 * Mars Colony: The UBGC sends out a mission to Mars in order to establish an small colony. For now, 30 astronauts are sent along with 10 space marines, they are able to set an outpost and plan to turn it into an actual colony soon.
 * Moon Colony: The Mexican part of the PAF is able to set up a colony in The Moon after sending a couple people there. Later on, the UBGC creates the "Lunar Mining Company", a goverment company to control PAF mining in The Moon. The first PAF miners are sent this year and set up in the small Mexican colony and start mining Helium-3 along with the other countries that already had a colony there. Space marines are also sent to protect the miners.
 * Project Helios: PAF becomes one of the first countries to join Project Helios, mostly providing funding since they don't have many ideas. A team of the best scientists is formed to collaborate with the International community, and a couple robot miners are sent to Mercury to mine along with the Tileans.
 * Diplomacy: No diplomacy is given because Gutiérrez lost all diplomatic documents in a party (I forgot whatever I was going to do)
 * Map Changes: More artificial islands in the Antilles, land bridge in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, some lakes in Sahara as well as an small river irrigating those lakes.