Posts from Actaea

In short, now Actaea has two empires with rulers who are completely out of their minds.

Have you read the previous ones?

Well, in the next expansion, there will be no point in taking a Ventorum, its stats won't be as good anymore.

I don't really like reading.

In short, now in Actae, there are two empires with rulers who are completely out of their minds.

What's the status of the emergency Security Council meeting, Revan?

It's funny that in the end, there are more and more dictatorships in Actaea. I now have a regime that resembles a military dictatorship, and Revan now has an empire... Democracy is dying!

I have a corrupted dictatorship.

ABS Nightly News aired an interview with a former Aztoxian Army officer who has resorted to using a hook as a replacement for the hand he lost in combat after the Department of Veterans Affairs failed to cover the cost of prosthetic surgery, prompting a deluge of complaints about the way Aztox takes care of its wounded veterans.
The Debate

“You can’t ask young Aztoxians to go overseas to serve their country and then abandon them when they come home injured,” insists recently returned double-amputee Randy de Groot. “Wounded veterans like myself who have given their limbs for this nation deserve to live in handicap-accessible housing, and to have the cost of our surgeries and therapy fully covered, even if it does cost an arm and a leg. What’s the point of spending so much on expensive new tanks and planes if you’re not going to take care of those of us who have given so much already?”

“We couldn’t agree more that these brave veterans deserve a better standard of living,” hastily interjects Sarah Betelgeuse, CEO of military equipment supplier Global Strategic Solutions, Inc. “But there’s no sense cutting procurement orders to pay for it. We would consider it our patriotic duty to foot the bill for free prosthetics for anyone injured in the line of duty ourselves. And all we’d ask in return is an agreement to plaster – er, decorate – the prostheses with advertisements for our civilian sales branch.”

“That takes care of the symptoms, but not the cause,” announces Professor Konrad Mombota, Director of the AAF’s highly secretive Special Projects Division. “As long as we insist on using flesh and blood troops on the battlefield, these kinds of injuries are going to continue to cause so much inefficiency – oh, and human suffering too, I guess. I say it’s time we unleashed Operation Codename: Giant Killer Robots!”

The problems in Brasilistan were mounting daily. So, when push came to shove, an advisor told you to just take it over. And you did.
The Issue

The dust has settled and, somehow, Brakhmar is now the proud owner of a new colony! There are still some teething issues, however, and there are some cultural and societal conflicts between settlers and native peoples. It's up to you on how best to resolve these issues.
The Debate

1. "Obviously we need to remove the settlers", Larry Ruff, Chairperson of the Brakhmar Council of Immigration Studies says frankly. "Pulling out completely and leaving the remaining populace to their own devices, however, would be detrimental and irresponsible. Ideally what needs to be done is to make Brasilistan a full part of Brakhmar, and give the remaining Brasilistanis full citizenship. We'd all be part of the same country, with the same citizenship, and the same rights and responsibilities."

2. "Woah, hold on there, that's way too drastic, and way too fast", your Interior Minister chuckles. "That's not going to solve the issues they're facing today over there right now. We need to come up with some sort of initiative that slowly integrates the Brasilistanis into our culture. You should appoint panels of arbiters consisting of international experts to broker agreements between settlers and natives where necessary too. It'll work, definitely. Probably."

3. "It's our land now", your energy advisor says quietly. "It's ours. Our own. Our precious. Eh, where was I … oh yes, Brasilistan. Look, there's not that many Brasilistani left, let's just give them the useless pockets of land. Like those on mountain slopes or in bogland. All oil-rich and arable lands can be kept for ourselves. Sure, it's a little like segregation, but at least everyone will be happy, right?"

4. "All these options are valid, to be sure, but I have an easier way of settling this", Doris Dodinas, head of the nation's nuclear program says in a matter-of-fact tone. "Can we please just nuke the place? Get our own guys out first, obviously but then just nuke it. We don't need a colony, but we do need a nuclear testing site. Our own citizens here are getting annoyed we're destroying good land in Brakhmar when there's a perfectly good dump in the form of Brasilistan."

This is the position your government is preparing to adopt.

It was only happening yesterday. Robots increase the NHP and defense, but significantly reduce employment.