Talk:Shattered (Map Game)/@comment-33965087-20180311150015

Federative Republic of Brazil


 * Backstory/Government (It's basically the same thing here): Aécio Neves, who has been president of Brazil since his election in 2030, has been maintaining a campaign of lifting people out of poverty and decreasing corruption ever since his inauguration. So far, his efforts are underachieved, but are much better than the corruption and poverty of Brazil in years' past.
 * Allegations: A few members of the opposition have accused Neves of embezzling funds from the national budget, however Neves has denied these accusations.
 * Reforestation and Tree Hybrids: Reforestation efforts are finally increasing the amount of forest in Brazil after a long period of consistent yet slowing deforestation. Yet a controversial plan has been proposed by Neves' Research Minister to create a tree hybrid that grows faster, produces more wood, and has higher quality. The controversy surrounding this proposal is that technological process are planned to be used for this tree hybrid.
 * Military: Aécio Neves intends to keep the military budget as is, but he does intend to direct funds towards more military vehicles and robots. Robots have now become an integral part of the army, as part of the Robotic Armed Machinery Forces (RAMF).
 * Research and Development: Several government-subsidized laboratories and research facilities have begun research for Brazil's future projects. Also, the tech industry of Campinas has blown the city's population up, adding 2.3 million into the city, along with 1 million thanks to municipal annexations.
 * Project Alegre: Project Alegre is a robotic project being developed in Porte Alegre. Their mission is to develop a powerful robot structure with a powerful steel alloy that is secret from the outside world. Development has just begun with the researchers on the drawing board.
 * Operation Alberto: Operation Alberto is another robotic project, this time being developed in Salvador. Their mission is to develop a powerful AI that is susceptible from conversion by foreign powers and cannot attain a consciousness. Similar to Project Alegre, this Operation is only on the drawing board.
 * Automation of Jobs: The quickly-increasing amount of automation of jobs in the country, several have gone out to protest in Brazil's largest cities, with the most prominent one in Campinas. President Neves stated in his election campaign that he would try to increase jobs as much as he could, to slow the rate at which automation is growing, but none of that has occurred since. Jobs that require heavy human interaction such as the job of nursing and teaching have remained mostly intact, but jobs like truck driving and widespread importation of server bots have wiped out entire industries to make way for bots.
 * Consciousness Drive: A big woe of most citizens and researchers is the increasing smartness of bots and the possibility of a robot attaining consciousness, which could ignite a war against humans and robots. For that, Operation Alberto was initiated to try and curb the effects, but woe still is in the public.
 * Economy: The economy is steadily growing, but slowing of the growth is expected in years to come. Unemployment is at an all-time high, at 25%!
 * Diplomacy:
 * Ecuador: Aid is being sent towards the injured protesters. We hope that the government understands that their shutdown is failing and that it is affecting everyone. We do not intend to directly intervene, but if we must, we must. We do not want the government shunning and clamping down on the protesters, who have unanimous rights for protesting their government. This is a free world, and the fact that the government is not bothering to come back from their cowering only shows how weak they are as a government.
 * Turkey: We request you to not pull Turkish business men from Greece. If you do, the whole crisis will most likely spill over, and you will feel their economic pain as a result.
 * Greece: Aid is being sent towards Greece, however it is slowly diminishing thanks to the economic slowing. We hope Greece can pull itself out of the hole it's in.
 * Russia: Your treatment of Ukraine's sovereignty is so low and dehumanizing that we wish to withdraw from BRICS and any other relations we've had. Goodbye Russia. We do not wish you well.
 * NATO: Brazil submits an application into NATO (essentially towards the U.S). Brazil has willingly withdrawn from BRICS as well, not seeing it as a plausible economic alliance. We hope that the entrance into NATO will be an excuse for its neighbors to back off and bow to Brazil will help decrease world instability and stop Russia's disheartening acts.