Talk:A World of War: World (Map Game)/@comment-26044830-20160301113142

imma edit this later for now gonna watch


 * Summary:
 * Military: Military numbers in active personnel is raised from 2.2 to 2.5 million due to an ongoing war by Operation Britannia and preparing for World War III and Operation Kennedy. Still continues to prepare for the Third World War and training for many reserves and defences are still ongoing, they should get some experience and specialisation in some parts for defence. Operation Kennedy is about to be announced this year (which it already did, plus this I’ve started this since the start of the turn), so we have high hopes of not targeting us. However expenses is raised due to such funding and at least 650,000 will stand down and would no longer become soldiers or become part of reserves. Since NAU gave Australia some piece of technology, we are able to have our weapons upgraded to modern standards and announced Operation Ranger, though the details haven’t being released yet to the public but it is used when some nation is about to launch a major attack on one major power (just like Operation Paterson)
 * Technology: Exo-suits are quite now popular across Australia. Thanks to NAU giving us technology, our Australian variant is done much earlier with combination of NAU’s technology. Somehow, we produced it at large-scale and only deployed it to only more than a quarter of military by the end of the year. All of military should have it by next year. Meanwhile, their so called “railgun artillery” is then continued to be invested by themselves. Research says it’ll be done three years’ time (two years of development) and should have two versions, that “large version” and a “miniature” one as a “bazooka”. Seeing that the railgun tank is quite an advantage, they decide to fund before researching into it, next year the proper development of it will start, it should take ~5 years as Australia. The blueprint will be based off NAU technology (because we are not part of the top five powers now) but attempting to model differently would make it difficult for it to be done as soon as possible (if using the same model, it should be done around 3 years from now). NAU version of tanks are already being made this year but in small scale (kind of 50 per year to eventually replace old tanks since they are unable to mass-produce such railgun tanks)
 * Summary for military: Currently we have 2.5 million active personnel and 800,000 in reserves. That gives a total of 3.3 million combined, but once 500,000 are dismissed to reserves, they could mobilise that number. We have at least ~4,000 robotic soldiers and will plan to increase to 10,000-18,000 by the end of 2036 as those “first-generation” robots are becoming cheaper and easier to reproduce.
 * Military Bases: After those basic outposts are finished, they start expanding them and improving them to become what Australia calls a fortress. The fortress is one of their fortifications for defence and usually have either a small strip if landlocked or have a small port if it has a coast or it could be both. They cost at least ~5 billion USD each, so at least 8 fortresses are built across mainland Australia (incl. New Guinea) and New Zealand. Many islands in the Pacific and in Australian coast are now patrolled partially, with at least many outposts stationed everywhere. Although Operation Kennedy by now is over (thanks Thunder for this) as believed, Australia has to still defend and maintain its major power status as one of the top ten nations.
 * Operation Britannia (official internationally)/War against United Kingdom: British South Africa by now is reduced to Namibia. This makes Australia having a chance to take the last chance of annexing their occupied lands in a treaty, they only sent out 200,000 troops to remove the last British army in Namibia. They have no interest on mainland UK, but they only sent in 30,000 troops to help out Scandinavia and the NAU.
 * Science and Technology: Ocean Cities and some sort of irrigation system mainland-wide is about to be done by the next two years. Ocean Cities will be first deployed and built in the Polynesian territorial waters.
 * Space Program [Mars/Hercules]: The short-lived colony with no name for its program has perished in February 2035 (now I realised that my turn was kind of “OP” earlier on) due to starvation and the launch date for supplies is delayed frequently. Although their hopes haven’t being given up yet on Mars as they now obtained some information for adapting this harsh climate and would find a way to colonise easier. A proper announcement is made to Australian public that a proper one will be made under the name of “Project Hercules”, equipment will have to be again invested with a higher funding of ~250-350 billion USD for it to adapt to Mars easier for colonists without the need of many tools. The ten astronauts are picked but are taken to reserves or are planned to be sent to Theia I. They will not collaborate so it’ll take another three to four years to launch this.
 * Space Program [The Moon/Theia I]: The lander is now being built, this will be a two year colony just to get some resources for them to build for their own purposes. If their lifespan is well achieved, then this becomes a permanent colony and Australia will continue to improve and develop such colony here.
 * Space Program [Cruxus Station]: Still being not commenced.
 * Education: Republic of Zambia by now is reaching at least 80.5% in literacy rates and by next two years, it should reach what a developed nation should really have. Nationwide university project is about to set off as many other major cities in Mainland Australia is built and largest ones apart from Sydney are located in Melbourne and Perth. Denpasar officially funds and the construction of this university will start by next year. The new cities under construction will be part of this project and will try to attract as much immigrants as possible.
 * Infrastructure: Sydney and Melbourne continues to rise by population and Denpasar is now slowly becoming behind by population in Australia as Sydney and Melbourne has more finest infrastructure than Denpasar or any Lesser Sunda cities. Also it’s due to immigration and the current industrial level it is capable of in producing military and other goods for Australia’s demands. Pollution is also causing some problems in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane-Gold Coast’s agglomeration, but even if most of the Australian transport is replaced with electric cars or industry has started reducing its emissions, the industry dumps waste into water and is killing many fish in local water in rivers.
 * Landfilling projects: No more of this for now in mainland Australia. (However we do plan to move onto Madagascar to build artificial islands eat of the Indian Ocean, not right now but by next year)
 * Sydney (Capital): The subway is almost finished. Almost the population raised itself now to 7.5 million this year, yet a flow of immigrants that is from United Kingdom has chosen this place for some that chose Australia. Apart from that, Sydney has yet fully redeveloped its centre and its focus is now on turning the city into a major business centre for most local and national companies in Australia. Elevated rail is now planned and a future national subway system to travel most of Eastern Australian cities would be planned starting from Sydney as HQ of this and as maintenance. This might be nearly as impossible, but it’ll take at least 9 years to get it done, probably not by the time span of the game.
 * Melbourne: Melbourne still third in the largest city for Australia now has 6.91 million people and is starting to lag behind. UK refugees are basically coming to Australia by that point to flee war, however some also chose this city over Sydney or the newly built cities this year but not all of it (most of them prefer over USEA, NAU or whatnot but Australia wants to maintain its “immigration” status as it was in OTL so it has to gain at least 200,000-300,000 immigrants p/year during each major conflict). Redevelopment is basically done for most of the city and is now aiming for the same goal as Sydney but also a mix of industry (and forestry for the Bass Landbridge- Melbourne cuts those trees to make planks and export it), especially military one.
 * Brisbane-Gold Coast: The city is raised to 4.9 million. Brisbane-Gold Coast inhabitants rumoured the city government they might rename the city to “Phophariopoli” under command by Drakidis by a referendum. Meanwhile, the subway is nearly done, it now reaches just almost the tip of this city.
 * Canberra: The old government buildings have simply raised tourism into account here. Just 200,000 had visited the location last year annually. Huge apartments are about to be built here to increase the population of Australia and for young people here to take up jobs for this tall multipurpose building that is just built few years ago (actually I don’t know where its finished but I think it’s in 2031) and is ~600m tall.
 * Perth: Perth grows to at least 4.12 million this year. Just in 2020s, Crown Perth has started to expand its gambling industry and yet Perth is turning into a specialised region of all that sorts, such as a “sanctuary for animals in two zoos”, a huge casino but not as much as New Manila and Las Vegas would’ve had and also a location for businesses (national ones) that accommodate such technological development and tourism. Although tourism is not strong at this city, they still prioritise and expand that sector.
 * Wellington: Population is now 1.4 million. Tourism is now being invested and the city is about to be taken into redevelopment as to increase New Zealand’s current population of 10.2 million as of 2035 to 32.3 million by the end of 2046 as the “ultimate” goal. Not many people prefer New Zealand especially British migrants, which they mainly move across somewhere more “relevant”, but the local New Zealander government would want to relocate some people in mainland Australia or attract immigrants here. Also it is designated as the centre for tourism (Auckland, Christchurch and Tititea will have minor airport strips but Wellington will have a large airport) when it comes to road trips across the now “New Zealand” island. It also accommodates a ferry trip to “Nova Taurica”.
 * Auckland: Population is now 3.6 million. More investing. Similar to above.
 * Christchurch: Population is now 700,000. Similar to above but Christchurch is now made into a region for processing raw resources for construction and even forestry (the company from Melbourne uses this kind of wood as well) and there will be no ferry trip to “Nova Taurica”.
 * Port Moresby: The highway route is done. Also, Port Moresby will also become an industrious city as Australia claims New Guinea has a lot of unused land for industrial usage. Near Port Moresby, forest is reduced to shrub to build up a large-scale centre for military weapons, lumber and processed food. Lumber will be temporary but it will be a good use for rainforest wood.
 * Denpasar: Still being the largest city, Denpasar has a population of 10.5 million this year and covers most of former island of Bali. The expansion for the airport continues and redevelopment for main city continues for modernisation. Tourism is now the priority as said by the Lesser Sunda government.
 * Dili: The goal to become a centre for Australian business in Asia continues. Since Lesser Sunda became one island, Dili is now expanding rapidly as “urbanisation”.
 * Ravenberg (Kimberley; in case I forgot where the location is by province): Similar situation with New Kallipolis but still not having any immigrants or any other stuff. The national university however, is built.
 * New Kallipolis (Bass Province): As the city is continued to be built, a rush of 20,000 immigrants and other settlers from mainland Australia arrive. The national university will be built next year.
 * Nova Taurica: Nova Taurica is still under construction, however vegetation and some animals from Australia are imported from Perth (at least 15 species from New Zealand natively and just very few Australian ones) and from New Zealand as to expand Perth’s “national sanctuary” and populate that region artificially. From this, the planned town will be planned by only people, as a result only 50,000 are sent from mainland Australia to build a small city designated to form an industry for tourism (especially Perth’s “sanctuary”, this might catch such tourist eyes). The animals however are unable to adapt and still require human assistance though. Nova Taurica will form their own government after it reaches 300,000 inhabitants from the province of Wellington.
 * Nuclear shelters: Nuclear shelters are mostly done on major cities in mainland Australia and New Zealand and is currently being improved.
 * Agriculture: Global warming is about to impact agriculture, however Australia decides to redevelop their 2032 year technology on irrigation to obtain water from what’s left of the rainforest in New Guinea, water pipes will be only be built for northern Australia, southern Australia will still have to cope and use desalination technology. Meanwhile, some towns are built as some people began to unite as a community and forming an urban region for farming communities.
 * Government: The remnants of the former Australian parties form a coalition against Hellenic and Roman factions led by the Australian Labor Party (or Labour Party as it was renamed since November 2035). The Hellenic Faction owns 43.4% of the lower seats in the Australian Parliament and 56.7% in the Council (upper house; also formerly known as the Senate). As most agreed in 2035, the upper house is rearranged from having 12 members from each province (or state as it used to) to 5, making it 110 senate members combined but territories, Melbourne and Sydney will only have 2 members, making it 118 in overall.
 * 2036 Australian election: As Flinders announced an election as to “keep civilians satisfied”, candidates include Drakidis, John Capros (kind of from the Roman Faction) and Malcolm Henry Howard (the Coalition). Nothing is explained any further but a campaign is about to ensue within each other’s eyes. (p.s. names aren’t my thing)
 * Energy: Geothermal power is basically nearly dominant in New Zealand now. In mainland Australia, the huge solar plant takes a hit, causing a blackout for 19 hours in 7th of April in eastern Australia (backup generators in Sydney and Melbourne are safe) until it was resolved. Also they continue to make sure major cities in mainland Australia aren’t always reliant on the huge solar plant they had, small-scale ones are built in Sydney, Brisbane-Gold Coast, Adelaide and Perth are built, the largest one is in Adelaide. Sydney uses tidal power and wind power because of the “Great Dividing Range”. In Republic of Zambia, more than a half of non-renewable energy is destroyed and replaced with renewable energy as redevelopment continues across the autonomy. By next year as research shows, Zambia will have 89% of the energy being reproduced being renewable and research onto solar cells continue to increase effectiveness still.
 * Health: Modernisation in Lesser Sunda, New Guinea, and Madagascar has made live nearly similar to Australia and New Zealand as of 2035. In Republic of Zambia, development on health continues, by 2037, everything should have equipment up to date when it comes to technology and health protocols. The gap for Aboriginals and non-Indigenous people is officially closed in January 2035.
 * Autonomies:
 * Republic of Zambia: Republic of Zambia will become a colony soon by next year as treaty has being said earlier, however Republic of Zambia has put to an effort on constructing and modernising many cities with Australian funding for this. Also, their high birth rate of 4.4 (originally somewhere 7 in 2010) per couple is also being used as labour for those who are now 18.
 * Diplomacy: The diplomatic isolation policy is being used since 2020 and by 2035, Flinders has announced the isolation policy will be taken down during its 15th anniversary. And the outcome of it isn’t that well received, some people said that the isolation policy is the good as Australia is nearly neutral to almost all affairs and criticise Flinders for “disrespecting the community” but however Flinders and his high council ignores such reception and replies back to not interfere with their own affairs. Just few months later, they announce a possible election to show if one of the next president of Australia can handle the diplomatic solution or they would go back to isolation diplomatically again, this election will take place at 2036.
 * Jabrilian Caliphate: Our opinion of them is turning against them, so we decided to embargo them to reduce their economic power, which they’ve used almost all of it to fund “Homo Superior”.
 * Croatia: Sanctioning them and also now embargoing them.
 * Grand Republic of Congo (GRC): Tensions are kind of rising because of Angola being a protectorate of GRC, however they attempt to ease such solution.
 * Angola: With them being a protectorate, they start influencing them partially whilst improving relations to it.
 * China: Decides to accept a mutual economical funding for some projects (kind of?). Some Australian people in general (not by government) are sceptical about this.
 * Demographics (Religion and Culture): Population rose from 130.9 million (~33.7 million in OTL Australia) to 137.0 million (~34.9 million in OTL Australia [incl. Bass Landbridge, Torres Landbridge and Sahul Landbridge until New Guinea]) this year. Life is literally more aligned to the early 20th century but only with a modern twist to it and the religion Hellenism is also influencing daily life as well. Meanwhile British civilians are displaced due to Operation Britannia at its final days or at least the last two years, letting Australia to take an opportunity of having at least ~200,000 immigrants between 2034 to this year from the United Kingdom. Also birth rates in their colony Zambia are the highest but in mainland Australia, it is probably up to 2.31-2.5 per women (originally ~1.96 in 2016) now and is set to return back to 2.19 by 2045 as health is improving and people simply only want two children.
 * Church of Uluru/Hellenic Church of Australia: The church gains from 1.25 million to 3.1 million this year. This religion is also spreading quite well across most of Australian mainland as such pagan faith and remaining Christians are still competing for superiority over faith will escalate and people want to resolve this in any way. However in their colonies, not many of those followers live there due to the majority being Christian and they are not interested for this.
 * Economy: Economy is improved from 3.61 to 4.17 trillion USD this year. Australia now embargoes Jabrilian Caliphate as the project is “inethical” and involves human testing and Benelux is about to be destroyed so sanctions are lifted. Croatia is still sanctioned however. Australia starts a project under the name “Improvisation Project” to surpass the 7th ranking country through economic reforms and get into the 6th rank. Their goal is to reach from 4.17 to 6.5-7 trillion USD by the end of 2039 to increase their economical capacity (by prioritise their economy to be even more connected and expand local businesses) and to finally mass produce some stuff (they currently had) they can’t afford with this current rank.