Actaea — Expedition — HeroesWorld

kcfgogbfalgfl

11 years ago

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That flower wasn't meant for them!

I didn't expect that from you, Cop.

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KindShaman

11 years ago

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I can't, he's already run away.

Ment

11 years ago

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Guys, I've allowed polygamy in the Shampignons. Just so you know, this is justified by tradition and religion, which don't exactly encourage such practices, but at least allow them in some cases. That's all.

Небо

11 years ago

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I didn't expect that from you, Cop.

Драккошка

11 years ago

Export Sales
Develop a thriving industry

Arandor

11 years ago

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well, everyone has had that for a long time.

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MedjersoN_HP

11 years ago

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Why does everyone have it? I don't, for example. And I always enjoy looking at new banners.

kcfgogbfalgfl

11 years ago

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Speaking of banners, you can compare not only the new ones but also their quantity on the map. For example, I have 113-2 custom banners on Ventorum = 111. Faces of @NATION@ #1-13 are counted as one.

kcfgogbfalgfl

11 years ago

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Decadentia

[/FONT]Suchjong Decadence — this is the name given to the new era of Rex Ventorum's history by many historians and political figures from all over the world. And although such an assessment is primarily made by refugees and people hostile to this country, the attitude toward this event among others is more often negative than positive or even neutral.
«Rex Ventorum is an unstable but very powerful mechanism lacking a purpose and an iron hand at its helm. If not for all this political stress and pressure on the economy and infrastructure, this country could have become a global superpower. The liquidation of the board of directors was a terrible mistake»
— Caton Marc Licinius, former member of the Rex Ventorum board of directors, international criminal.
«It is all due to the sharp jump in the standard of living and economic freedoms. In such a short period of time, the inhabitants of a very poor province turned from the corporation's workforce and citizens of the country built by Lucius into the wealthiest people in Actea! One might think this is untrue, remembering Vitis or the rich of Quasardastan, however, this statement is completely correct if one considers the population density».
— Titus Larcius, former secretary of the treasury.
«A sad but true paradox: because of the good life, my compatriots have come to moral decay and cultural regression. What I now observe in the country is the most terrible regime and political course of all that exist in Actea. This is completely unacceptable»
— Park Byeong-hon, former secretary of state.

Be that as it may, there were many prerequisites for what happened, and they all form a certain chain of events:
Lucius Cornelius Sulla creates the Federative Republic → growth in standard of living and personal freedoms; division of the country into provinces endowed with great autonomy; creation of a clear government hierarchy and thoughtful infrastructure; improvement of the country's status at the international level, organization of the security council, AFTA, KOSAP.
Attempt on the consul → Lucius finds himself unable to lead the country; a rapid growth of political freedoms occurs, political parties emerge, and the right to have own laws is widely used by provincial praetors. People make use of freedom of speech and self-expression, fully utilizing new opportunities.
Election of Lee Yeon-ji to the position of consul of the country → transfer of the capital to Suchjong, infusion of a colossal amount of funds for the development of this province; improvement of all kinds of benefits for the population, development of industry and economy; creation of "local" armed forces under direct command; Suchjong effectively becomes a state within a state.
At this point, the leadership of this province begins to use its political and economic influence for another reformation of the country. Consul Lee Yeon-ji was often criticized for her selective policy, however, it is an indisputable fact that at the state level, this girl never thought of herself, her position, or power. And when her advisors presented her with the fact of future changes in the country, she had two choices: drown Suchjong in the blood of its inhabitants, trying to hold power in her hands and preserve the country built by Scipio, or agree to the demands of the secretary of defense and other high-ranking officials. Lee Yeon-ji, due to her great love for her people, naturally did not resort to violence. Ironically, her softness on this matter led the country to even more appalling and absurd consequences.[/COLOR]

Mandate of Heaven

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As a result of all these events, Actea acquired another monarchical state. In the case of Rex Ventorum, the ruler, or rather the newly minted empress, received legislative, executive, judicial, military, and religious power in the country into her hands. Only a few laws applied to the holder of the mandate, which she could not change.
— The empress's love must be evenly distributed among her people, and therefore the Daughter of Heaven has no right to have children, a lover, or a husband, either in the present or in the past.
— In order to avoid stagnation, the Empire needs fresh ideas and the clarity of a young mind. Upon completion of twenty years of her reign, the Daughter of Heaven must choose her successor and pass the Heavenly Mandate to her; the age of the new ruler must not exceed twenty-six years or be less than nineteen.
— The Daughter of Heaven can renounce power only in favor of a new successor; the transfer of power, territory, or wealth of the country to other persons or organizations is unacceptable.
The first empress became the previously unknown Han Yeon-mi at the age of twenty-one.[/color]

National Happenings

[/FONT]I. It's UterUs, not UterYou!
Issue: A religious talk show host raised a furor with his call to ban contraception. Women's rights groups have come to you demanding a response.
Government Position: "Both sides have rocks in their brains," says proud asexual, Rebecca Licorish. "Why don't we just ban sex altogether, and force people to use artificial insemination? That way, we can preview everyone who signs up to have kids, and if we don't like it, tough beans for them. The police may have to work harder to catch those who 'overlook' this measure, but if that's the price we have to pay for ending this inane argument once and for all, it'll be well worth it."
Result: underground copulation clubs have sprung up in major cities.[/color]

II. Police Too Pushy?
Issue: A group of 'concerned compatriots' (Citizens Raging Against the Police) have protested against the enormous numbers of policemen enforcing the law on their daily lives.
Government Position: "You can't listen to what they're saying!" gasps Police Chief Randy Shiomi, horrified. "These nuts would have us living in utter anarchy! If some robbers suddenly decide to break into a shop and steal everything, what's the owner going to do? What could anyone do without a well-funded police force? There has to be justice and law or we'd be nothing better than a bunch of savages. Stick to your guns, I say, and let me arrest these subversives - people need to be taught to show some respect!"
Result: citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering'.[/color]

III. Gunman Kills Three
Issue: Tragedy struck Rex Ventorum today, as a gunman killed three people in a suburban shooting rampage. The community is united in grief, but divided in opinion as to what should be done.
Government Position: The strongest voices demand tighter gun controls. "The only way to prevent further atrocities is to take the guns out of the hands of the murderers," says anti-gun campaigner Howard Love. "There's no justification for them in today's society. We need tighter regulations on who can hold guns, so only our police and military have them."
Result: guns are banned.[/color]

IV. The Silence and the Fury
Issue: A large, silent mass of people have staged a sit-in around the government buildings in Subin to protest noise pollution.
Government Position: The leader of the protest, Sy Lance, slips a handwritten letter across your desk. It reads: "The noise level in this city has become simply unbearable. I cannot walk down the street without having my delicate auditory faculties assaulted! For the sake of Rex Ventorum's hearing, you must enact stricter noise pollution laws. I implore you!"
Result: noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law.[/color]

V. Hackles Raised Over Fur Clothes Debate
Issue: Several animal rights groups have protested the continuing use of fur as a material for clothing.
Government Position: "You can't mean that, surely?" snorts Prudence Cruz, adjusting a hat made from real tiger hide. "It's the people's choice what they wear. I don't think it's fair that the majority of the public should be deprived of fur clothes because some people are a bit queasy. In fact, if the government would allow us to stock rarer animals, we could produce even finer products. In the end, it's up to the consumer, don't you think?"
Result: fur coats have become the latest fashion trend.[/color]

VI. Blot Out Bauhaus?
Issue: Following his purchase of a large plot of land in the middle of Subin, Samuel Dada, the heir to a fortune made on the back of the Arms Manufacturing industry, has begun his conversion of the property into a vast and unusual mansion. Busybodies are in an uproar at the design, however, which they claim is everything from "out of social context" and "bizarre" to "just plain ugly".
Government Position: "This monstrosity must be torn down immediately!" claims local harridan and book-club member, Renee Wilson. "The trees in the garden spell a frightening word from the balcony; and the tower looks like a - a - well, you know! Mr. Dada's mansion may be his own, but the government must intervene in the name of taste and common decency. There should be a licensing organisation to approve all future renovations of buildings, lest we be plagued by these architectural abominations."
Result: builders spend more time negotiating "tasteful architecture" than on actual construction.[/color]

VII. 404 Issue Not Found
Issue: Upon arriving at your desk early this morning, you were stunned to find there weren't any dilemmas to resolve.
Government Position: "Well it's not surprising, it is?" pipes up Kayla Mistletoe from your entourage. "Every day, you expect the people of Rex Ventorum to come to you with their problems. Would it hurt you, for once, to go out and ask them what they want you to do?"
Result: politicians accost strangers in the street to ask their problems.[/color][/color]

Legislation & Civil Unrest

The first changes in legislation at the initiative of the empress were expressed in the introduction of new laws of a very dubious nature.
The ban on sex is intended to solve problems with unwanted pregnancies, eliminate sexually transmitted diseases, rid people of homosexuality problems at the social level, motivate citizens to devote their time to other things (art, science, other ways of development, rest and entertainment), make relationships between loving couples stronger, more honest and sincere, and preserve only the true meaning of the concept of love itself.
Added to this is a ban on gun ownership, an increase in the number of law enforcement officers, and much more. It is not hard to guess that many people disagreed with such a turn of events.
Libertarian Party
Most members of this party decided to leave the country almost immediately; others, on the contrary, began trying to oppose the new regime. Libertarian praetors successfully pushed the inhabitants of their provinces toward disobedience and organized a so-called "resistance". Atlantis, Griffonia, Velox — these provinces refused to recognize the current authority, joined by Salus and conservative Discordia. The leaders of the resistance expected support from Decimus Julius Sulla (the annexation of Ventorum was supposed to give the resistance forces the necessary resources and influence to seize power), but the old man never appeared; why — no one knows. Within just four days, Suchjong restored relative order in the country. Result:
Atlantis — Gai Fabritius Liberius killed, 9 thousand dead.
Griffonia — Emilia Augusta arrested, 2 thousand dead.
Velox — Triton Auster escaped death and capture, secretly continues anti-government activities, 39 people dead.
Salus — Mercury Faun arrested, 43 thousand dead, 17% of urban structures destroyed.
Discordia — General Tellus was betrayed by his most trusted person and arrested, no victims.
Lucis
Also, one of the empress's first decisions was her order to disconnect the founder of the FRRV from life support. Legally, euthanasia was still not permitted in the country, but in the case of the first consul, the empress pointed out that it was time to lay this man's spirit to rest. Such a statement was made publicly; some approved it, some did not, and some decided to prevent it. A day before the appointed date, Lucius Cornelius Scipio was kidnapped from his room by unknown persons and taken in an unknown direction. Later, the organization Lucis took responsibility for this incident; according to them, Rex Ventorum should wait for the day when medicine is able to bring the consul back to consciousness, and only then will all the villains get what they deserve.

Overall, the new political regime has not yet shown itself to be totalitarian; for example, wiretapping of phone calls by law enforcement agencies is still not permitted, and people are allowed to protest as before (as long as it does not violate public order or national security); people can dress and express themselves as they wish (with certain exceptions, such as in issue number VI), there is no censorship in the media, etc.
On the other hand, an exception can be found for all the above points — the person of the empress. It is forbidden to depict her in art, paint her, show her in movies and music, speak unfavorably of her publicly, and so on.
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Initially, the "Discordia" project was conceived by Lucius Cornelius Scipio to perform two main tasks:
1. Testing biological and chemical weapons far from the mainland part of the country.
2. Creating a powerful military center for the protection of maritime borders and northern provinces of the FRRV; placement of strategic ABM on the island to reduce the consequences of nuclear threats.
After Consul Lee Yeon-ji came to power, the special powers of the praetor of Discordia (General Tellus) sharply declined, and the development of biochemical weapons was suspended in order to protect the environment of Rex Ventorum and, first and foremost, Suchjong.
After the creation of the Empire, Discordia's infrastructure underwent significant changes, and its sphere of activity expanded radically. In addition to all previous tasks, it was decided to use Discordia's vast land as the country's main prison, where prisoners would pay for their transgressions through deprivation of liberty and work for the benefit of the country: the government funded the opening of many extraction sites for various useful resources that had previously been idle.
A large influx of new "workers" occurred immediately after the proclamation of the Empire's creation: these were many "dissenters" — those inhabitants of the country whose political position went beyond words and simple protests, manifesting in activities that endangered the stability of the country.
General Tellus was arrested during an attempt to create a military resistance; Mercury Faun and Emilia Augusta were sent to prison for similar reasons. Jung Sang-kwon ended up here by order of the empress — he remained free only because there was no evidence of his criminal activity, but the ruler of the empire does not require such evidence when passing sentence. Park Byeong-hon was accused of high treason, and Mars Veturius Avita signed his own prison sentence with his decision to add the role of the empress to his new film.

Inhabitants:
Military personnel: ~29 thousand
Prisoners: ~54 thousand
Security service and other personnel: ~2.8 thousand
Known prisoners:
Decimus Julius Sulla (owner of Ventorum Heavy Industries corporation and ex-praetor of the Ventorum province)
Tellus (ex-general RVAF and ex-praetor of the Discordia province)
Mercury Faun (ex-praetor of the Salus province)
Emilia Augusta (ex-praetor of the Griffonia province)
Jung Sang-kwon (leader of the Tangun criminal organization)
Park Byeong-hon (former secretary of state of the FRRV)
Mars Veturius Avita (film director from Atlantis)
Activity:
Oil industry, coal industry, iron ore industry, aluminum industry, mining chemical industry, military exercises, testing of new types of weapons, scientific experiments, and much more.

Historically, this province was for a long time the capital of the Rex Ventorum state of antiquity; rich in natural resources, this land always served its masters faithfully and truly, enriching them with everything necessary. During the period of corporatocracy, actual slavery flourished here — not legally, but effectively: the poor as well as those who owed money to someone (or children of those who owed) usually ended their lives at the numerous factories or mines of this province; work here was always hard and remains so to this day.
With the rise to power of Lucius Cornelius Scipio, minimum wages were established and working conditions for laborers were slightly improved, but in general, little changed. Decimus Julius Sulla, owner of Ventorum Heavy Industries, for the last two decades of his life was effectively the master (landowner) of all Ventorum (the province and its territory as such); in the old Rex Ventorum he was a member of the board of directors, and in the FRRV he supplied raw materials, weapons, equipment, etc., fulfilled government orders, and himself was exempt from paying taxes. Many people agree that such a detail was part of an agreement between Lucius and Decimus when they agreed to cooperate. With the emergence of the Empire, the Ventorum Heavy Industries corporation was abolished, and all resources and infrastructure passed under the direct command of the government. Decimus Julius Sulla was suspected of planning anti-government activities and consequently was arrested. According to another common opinion, the act of arrest was carried out because the rich man spoke extremely rudely about the empress.

Population:
Workers: 11.89% of the country's population
Others: 1.23% of the country's population
Military garrison and law enforcement forces: more than 100 thousand
Activity:
Production of weapons (including nuclear), equipment for military, official, and personal use; gas industry, oil industry, coal industry, uranium industry, shale industry, iron ore industry, aluminum industry, etc.

For her loyalty to the people and professional skills, Lee Yeon-ji was offered to return to the position of secretary of state.
The secretary of defense, minister of education and culture, as well as the minister of energy remained the same. Secretary of internal security Argus Cetronian has been declared a traitor.

Heroist

11 years ago

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***
-We will be closely monitoring the developments in Rex Ventorum. -Thomas Stammer, the current president of the United States of Quasardastan, briefly commented on the situation. -If international cooperation continues and all international obligations are observed as before, there will be absolutely no problems. However, if a totalitarian state like Kittypink, with its empresses and aggressive policies, is established next door, we will take all necessary measures to avoid this threat. We hope that this will never happen.

Ment

11 years ago

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Well, in the next expansion, there won't be any point in taking a Ventorum, its stats won't be as good anymore. Should have taken it in this one!
What's the status of the emergency SB, Revan?