Talk:Shattered (Map Game)/@comment-26322081-20180317205105

Italian Republic
Shelters and bunkers are being built in the biggest cities and other strategically important areas, if they work well, they will be built nationwide. Because of the increasing tourism police forces in the city are increased to prevent terrorist attacks and crime. The Roma Termini train station is renewed and new train lines are created. Rome Ciampino Airport is converted to a military airport, all the commercial flights are moved to Rome Fiumicino airport, which will soon get a new terminal. An urban renewal project is imposed here too, although it's less important than the one in Rome. Two new metro lines are going to be built. Milan Linate Airport will close down, all its flights will be moved to Milan Malpensa which will get a new runway, the space left from the closed airport will be turned into a huge park that will also be partially used to build affordable but modern housing. The 2nd metro line is finished and a 3rd one is going to be built.
 * Backstory:  The new generation of Italy is tired with the corruption, bureaucracy, ignorance and crime that are suffocating the country, therefore a new party called "Union for a New Italy (Unione per un'Italia Nuova)" is founded and it wins the elections with a surprising 68%. This party is mildly nationalist, they don't tolerate bureaucracy, corruption, tax-evasion and crime at all. However, they support civil rights. They think the interests of the nation should be at the first place and that the EU should respect Italy more. They also think that the country should have a more important role in the Mediterranean area.
 * Summary: WIP
 * Military: Military conscription is reintroduced. The armed forces now have a personnel of 480,000 with 100,000 reserves.
 * Technology: A new organisation for military technological research is created, it's called the National Agency for Military Technologies (Agenzia Nazionale per le Tecnologie Militari) and it's funded with 700,000,000€, we also ask the EU and NATO to help funding this organization, in return, we will share all our research results with our allied countries.
 * New Mare Nostrum Project:  It is decided that as Italy is located in the heart of the Mediterranean, its role is to patrol it and defend it from instability and crime. Therefore a lot of the increased military budget goes to funding a new navy. A project to make 1 new big aircraft carrier starts (with the option of building 2). If completed it would be the biggest aircraft carrier owned by a Mediterranean country. 65% of the existing fleet is updated and improved with new faster and less consuming engines, new radar technology is installed and weapons are updated too. It is expected that 100% of it will be updated by next year. The Navy orders 12 frigates, 2 corvettes, 3 destroyers, 3 submarines and 10 multirole jet fighters which should become active in a couple of turns.
 * Quantum Technology:  Italy would like to cooperate with France in the research of Quantum Technology, we propose the creation of a united board/agency for Quantum Research in Europe.
 * UAV Research Program:  the Italian Air Force orders 25 drones from the US and starts working on research to make its own.
 * Conflicts: We are not involved in any conflicts yet.
 * Preparing for War: Patrol activity of the Ionian and Adriatic seas is increased by +300%, a new major military base is built in Calabria and minor ones are built in Sardinia, Lampedusa and Pantelleria. A naval base and maintenance area for the navy is built in Brindisi. Now and then ships are also sent to the Aegean Sea to check Russian and Turkish activity.
 * Science and Technology
 * Space Program
 * General: Funds in space research are decreased as they're not considered important and because money is needed for way more important things.
 * Infrastructure:
 * Cities:
 * Rome:  A major project of urban renewal starts: most of the broken roads are repaired, the city replaces its buses and trams with more eco-friendly vehicles such as electrical or hydrogen-powered busses. The city council invests a lot of its profit on tourism, therefore, this year is expected to be the best year for tourism in Rome.
 * Milan:  Milan is the economical, financial and industrial capital of the country, and the Government knows this well, therefore a special tax-area is made in the city centre, companies moving there are going to pay less taxes, this is done to attract foreign companies and investors, infact it is expected that the number of skyscrapers in the city will rise constantly in the following years, making Milan one of the cities with the most skyscrapers in Europe.
 * Naples:  A lot of police is sent to prevent crime. The city council starts working with the nearby towns to integrate the metropolitan area better and to reduce crime and poverty in the city. The city also invests in tourism.

A referendum on the reintroduction of nuclear energy power plants will be made next year.
 * Strait of Messina Bridge: The construction of the bridge connecting Sicily with the mainland starts, it will be completed in 1-2 turns. It should benefit a lot the area, improve trade and make transport between the two regions way faster. It will be made of a 4-lane highway and a high-speed railway.
 * Agriculture: The government starts investing money on agriculture and it starts making food storage areas in every region, for emergencies.
 * Government
 * Border control: The country is going to accept less immigrants and refugees from now on, we accept 80,000 bangladeshi immigrants in our country. We will work hard on integration of all immigrants, by giving them compulsory Italian language lessons and economical help if needed.
 * Political Parties:  The Union for a New Italy is the leading party. The strongest parties in the opposition are the Democratic Party, the League and Free and Equal Party.
 * Diplomacy:
 * Greece:  We will send 5000 soldiers and 3 fighter jets to the land owned by the Commonwealth. Our navy will also patrol their coast and fend off any Turkish or Russian ship that may want to threaten it. We won't hesitate to respond to any aggression against them. Economical help will also be sent if needed. Spies are sent to the other Greek states and to Turkey and Russia to check their activity.
 * Bosnia: We may intervene against the Islamic State of Bosnia (we have to see if a conflict against them is supported by our people and if other nations will join too), but for now, we will only send medical help for civilians and NATO military. We support a democratic united Bosnia.
 * Serbia: Get your hands off Bosnia. There might be consequences.
 * NATO: Although we are an independent country and we try to defend our own interests, we will still respond to all call for helps from the other nations of the alliance.
 * Albania: We promise giving them some resources and military tech if they don't ally with Turkey
 * Libya: We promise giving them resources (food, crops,...) and military protection if they don't join the MEMO.
 * Turkey: Diplomatic relations are cut. Travel to Turkey from Italy is banned. Please, leave Greece now.
 * Ukraine&Russia:  At the moment we're neutral.
 * United States: We will help you intervene in the Greek crisis and maybe the Bosnian one too, but at the moment we don't care about Russia and Ukraine.
 * Canada:  We would like to improve relations.
 * France: We would like to improve relations, improve transportation between our two countries and help you in quantum technology research.
 * Education: Education is made more efficient and it's now mandatory until one turns 18 years old for everyone.
 * Demographics:
 * Population: The population has slightly risen to 63.2 million people.
 * Economy: The government has made a plan to fix the economy of the country: a lot of power is given to the organizations fighting tax-evasion, which has been a very serious problem in the country until now. Now serious tax-evaders can go to jail for years and their belongings can be completely confiscated. Corruption is also fought relentlessly. The Government tries to make the country as efficient as possible. A program to fight extreme bureaucracy is created, new jobs are made especially in the research and tech fields, some taxes are lowered to attract foreign investors and start-up companies. The government gets a major stake in many national oil extracting companies and starts extracting oil in Libya, Tunisia and in the Eastern Mediterranean, some soldiers are placed in these risky areas to prevent terrorist attacks. The nations where the oil is extracted are rewarded with some of the revenue. The now nationalised oil-extracting company ENI, makes a project to build a huge solar panel area in the Libyan Sahara desert, new details about this plan will be revealed in the following turns.
 * Energy independence: The country is expected to reach energy independence on 2037. While some experts say this is impossible and it's going to most likely happen by 2040.