Talk:Patient (Map Game)/@comment-24974357-20180203180456

Federative Republic of Brazil
 * Government:
 * Bolsonaro wins a 4th term with 54% of the votes. While its supporters celebrate, the opposition calls that a "dictactorship, as we've been ruled for one single man for twelve years now".
 * Oppositors organize protests against the elections in Brasília, saying they were rigged. The Justice investigates, but nothing has been found yet. When some protestors start to vandalize public property, the police is deployed and violently supressed them. No one was killed, but dozens were left injured. Opposition is socked, but supporters applaud.
 * Carioca criminal factions brankupt, as the Rio slums remain empty and their drug trade schemes collapse. The police uses this opportunity and starts an intense manhunt to dismantle the factions in Rio de Janeiro.
 * Military:
 * Two men are shot dead without previous warning after trying to break into a closed slum in Rio de Janeiro. They're found to be american journalists trying to make an illegal documentary on Zalgos. Since they entered a well-marked shoot-on-sight area, the soldiers suffer no consequences. The journalists had footages from quarantine zones in NYC and interviews with unindentified sources. The material and bodies are sent to USA.
 * The Navy purchases 26 MiG-29K from Russia to replace the outdated Skyhawk carrier-capable aircraft fleet.
 * Economy:
 * Unemployment rises, mostly on Rio de Janeiro with the downfall of tourism. People start moving from Rio to other cities, mostly São Paulo and other large cities in the state. Unemployed people are encouraged to volunteer into the Armed Forces, as they're not broken from the economic crisis.
 * Diplomacy:
 * Korea: This is the lamest excuse in the history of espionage. Two more korean spies are found infiltrated and are arrested. They're found to have used false documents pretending to be Army soldiers. The three korean spies are imprisioned and interrogated extensively so they inform us everything they leaked. After the interrogations, they're trialed for leakage of classified data and falsified documents and condemned to eleven years of prision. Extradition can be negotiated.
 * Brazil condemns the attitudes of Venezuela about the Zalgos. We offer asylum to prosecuted opposition members. At the same time, we analyze them to see if they're really infected with Zalgo. If an infected is found, they're sent to the research complex.
 * Zalgo Combat and Research (ICEZ):
 * Ongoing researches:
 * Several teams analyze different infected tissues trying to find a pathogen.
 * Two teams analyze infected blood, trying to find out why they're so contaminated.
 * Zalgos left alone in rooms did not talk with each other as expected. They keep trying to make them interact.
 * Vocalizations are still being recorded and analyzed, but nothing that made sense was found yet.
 * Alive and dead Zalgos undergo brain activity scan to see what regions of the brain are still active, and if there's any difference from a healthy human.
 * Two dead Zalgos are dissecated and its organs are compared to healthy organs, looking for any abnormality.
 * The Zalgo dust is still being analyzed for organic matter and for its composition.
 * Hidden from the Foundation and the public, ICEZ takes life prisoners to the complex and injects them Zalgo blood. Researchers watch closely their health and checks on them every hour to detect what was left unnoticed in previous Zalgo infection processes.
 * Each research team now recieves $1.5M.
 * The new data about the Moon object convinces a considerable part of ICEZ officers that we're dealing with more than a simple disease, since everything (the dust, the reduced days, the strange earthquake in Panama and now that martian-soil-made object too complex to be natural) happened more or less at the same time. They try to relate the vocalizations, mostly the one about Space and Astronomy, with the object. ICEZ brings up to the Foundation the hypothesis of the object being created by an alien lifeform, backed up by the speculations and observations made above.