City State of Rhydin Factbook

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The Hegemony

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Domestic Corporations
(Our wards are split between zones, Central, Delta West, Alpha South, and Delta East. Companies may have factory's, offices, and or other holdings in various zones.)

Air Luxury Helicopters
Acronym: ALH
Business: ALH
Representative: Lanias Vlos Grail, Chief of Global Operations
Zones Served: Central, Delta West, Alpha South, Delta East
Producer of: Luxury Helicopter Transport Craft

Harl L' Qu'mados Technologies
Acronym: HQLT
Business: HQLT
Representative: Tetra Ahri'Zun, Director of Global Strategies
Zones Served: Central, Delta West, Alpha South, Delta East
Producer of: Submersible Technology, Robotics
Note: HQLT supplies the Republic with naval technology and weaponry.

Rhydia Vehicle Corporation
Acronym: RVC
Business: RVC
Representative: Kiman Ahri'Zun, CEO and Director of Global Affairs
Zones Served: Central, Delta West, Alpha South, Delta East
Producer of: Automotive, Engines, Military Techologies
Note: RVC is a major supplier of technology and weaponry systems to the Republic's military complex.

Rhydin International Commercial Aerodome
Acronym: RICA
Business: Rhydin International Commercial Aerodome
Representative: Yanna Ke'la Velven, Director of Global Affairs
Domestic Zones Served: Central, Delta West, Alpha South, Delta East
Note: Central Aeroport for all of Rhydin

Boars Head Brewing
Acronym: BHB
Business: Boars Head Brewing
Representative: Ghekard Vlos, CEO and Boars Head Brewery Global Strategeist
Domestic Zones Served: Central, Delta West, Alpha South, Delta East

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Foreign Corporations within Rhydin:
(Our wards are split between zones, Central, Delta West, Alpha South, and Delta East. You may see multiple listings of companies, this is because they may have factoryies, offices, and or other holdings in various zones. This list is also in alphabetical order.)

Energizia Inc.
Representative: Mr. Paolo Mancini, CEO of Energizia Inc.
Zones of Operation: Central, Delta West, Alpha South, and Delta East
Corporate Storefront: Energizia Inc.
Originating Nation: San Pellegrino Romana
Producer of: Natural resources, fuels (mainly oil, biodiesel, natural gas), public utility provider, investments.

Montana Incorperated
Representative: Antonio Montana
Corporate Storefront: Montana Incorperated
Zones of Operation: Delta East, Delta West
Originating Nation: Mokastana
Producer of: Pharmaceuticals, Transport(Sea and Air Freight), Security, Banking, Basic Infrastructure

OMNI INDUSTRY
Representative: Guil Refant
Zone of Operation: Alpha South
Corporate Storefront: TBA
Originating Nation: Kyuria
Producer of: High end technologies.

Rayleonard Corporation
Representative: Raymond Leonard
Zone of Operation: Alpha South
Corporate Storefront: Rayleonard Corporation
Originating Nation: Esternial
Producer of: Armaments/Materials

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Social Organization
The Hegemony of Rhydin is defined as a technopoly. As a society in which technology is deified, meaning “the culture seeks its authorisation in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology”. It is characterised by a surplus of information generated by technology, which technological tools are in turn employed to cope with, in order to provide direction and purpose for society and individuals.

In a technocracy, rather than existing in harmony with a theocratic world-view, tools are central to the "thought-world" of the culture. Rhydinian believe that tools "attack culture…[and] bid to become culture", subordinating existing traditions, politics, and religions.

The thought process thus characterises a technocracy as compelled by the "impulse to invent",an ideology first advocated by Francis Bacon in the early 17th Century. He believed that human beings could acquire knowledge about the natural world and use it to "improve the lot of mankind", which led to the idea of invention for its own sake and the idea of progress.

Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the emerging technocracy has sought to dominate and control nature, a “right” that was chartered early on, but could only be fully carried out with the emergence of modern technology. The more able Rhydinians became to control nature, including their natural bodies, the more fearful they became of the aspects of nature they could not control. This led to the emergence of the Hegemony and it's technocracy based ideologies–a society organized around an ideology of technological progress.

Rhydin is defined as a "totalitarian technocracy", which demands the "submission of all forms of cultural life to the sovereignty of technique and technology". Echoing Ellul’s 1964 conceptualisation of technology as autonomous, "self-determinative" independently of human action, and undirected in its growth, technology in a time of Technopoly actively eliminates all other ‘thought-worlds’. Thus, it reduces human life to finding meaning in machines and technique.

They emphasise "artistic creativity, intellectual culture, development of interpersonal relations, or religion as being the realms in which human freedom finds expression and in which human fulfilment is to be found". They adhere to an alternative worldview that values the "exercise of reason in the service of free will" and the ability of technological developments to "serve human ends".

Rhydinians are known to espouse the notions of "efficiency, precision, objectivity", and believe that the notions of myth, and religion must be eliminated for the common good and ascendancy of mankind to a further status of evolution.

This impetus to improve on nature through technology has as its ultimate aim to free the citizenry of Rhydin altogether from the limitations of nature. They seek freedom from the limitations of the earth through the development of space technology, from the limitations of our bodies through computers and robotics, from death through cryogenic freeze, from the limitations of natural reproduction through the New Reproductive Technologies, and from the limitations of birth through obstetric tools.

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(Based off of the 1.5% of total population)
Active troops: 57,037,000
Reserve Troops: 10,000,000
Total troops: 67,037,000
Military Age: 16 years of age
Fit for military service annually: Age 16-49: 4,188,930
Reaching military age annually: 5,545,700

Houses that serve the City State:
Vlos: Based out of the provisional ward of Jiv'undus, Minor House.
Renor Velven: Based out of the provisional ward of Karas, Minor House
Elemmiire: Based out of the provisional ward of Anhui, Great House.
Ahn Ri'Zun: Based out of the provisional wards of Covu, Zakath, and Anhui. Great House.

Renor Velven: Conscripts. What other nations might refer to as " weekend warriors." They are no less vital and usually tasked with occupational duty, unless needed otherwise. They also perform the vital function of operating MASH units and other medical needs. They are composed of infantry, light-medium armor, and medical/mechanical services.

Vlos: The first and foremost in any fight. They are the ground forces, and conventional armor as well as mechanized legionnaire deployment sections. The fashion of the Rhydinian ability to blitzkrieg their troops in large numbers is due to the high amount of the Vlos. They constitute nearly thirty percent of the total military population.

Elemmiire: Special Forces. Of the ability of say the Spetnaz. They are paratroopers first and foremost and capable of securing advanced positions, or creating them. Composed of both highly trained infantry, and that of the combat engineer.

Ahn Ri'Zun: The Ahn Ri'Zun are the key to the Imperial Republic's rule and in turn serve as elite shock-troops in correspondence with other regular legionary units. Ahn Ri'Zun are trained from infancy on the provisional ward Sicaria. Sicaria is home to the vicious training grounds of the Ahn Ri'Zun, who fight voraciously in a mock-up of natural selection - ensuring that only the best enter formal service. Unlike many armies of the free world, the intense difficulties of simply surviving the barren terrain and fellow populace on Sicaria leave only the toughest alive.

They follow the same orginizational setup under legions, each composed of ten brigades of roughly 30,000 soldiers each and are a major component of the ground warfare. They also have dedicated artillery, anti-aircraft, anti-armor detachments available to them.

Rhydin Home Guard: Ground Forces
The Home Guard military legions have undergone a serious upgrade and modernization program for the last ten years in anticipation of further action against their former homeland as well as maintaining the peace and security of their current home.

Main Providers of Military Hardware:
Lyran Arms

Main Battle Tanks:
[1440] LY4A1 Wolfhound MBT
[130] LY7 Rottweiler MBT
[880] Black Jack MBT

Medium Tanks:
[1600] Hoplite MBT

Light Tank:
[230] Cbetan (Spider) Light Tank

Military Utility Vehicles:
[15000] HEMT trucks
[9000] Battle transport Trucks
[8000] Goat troop transport vehicle
[4500] BSM Iveco LMV
[ 2600] VCI Sisu ATTC [ All Terrain Tracked Carrier ]
[2200] BSM Iveco 40.10 Light Utility Truck
[3500] VCI C303 4x4 Variant
[2800] VCI C303 6x6 Variant
[7000] H14 Medium Utility Truck 4x4
[5000] H18 Heavy Utility Truck 6x6
[6500] FS 42 Tank Transporter

Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicles:
[3520] LY224 Sorcha HIFV
[1200] Iron Heart IFV
[200] LY219 IFV
[230] Swiftkick

Armoured Personnel Carriers:
[1200] Iron Heart APC
[490] LY219 APC
[540] PATV-02
[360] SwiftJack

Armored Car:
[125] Q39 " Nota'man "

Command Car:
[100] Iron Heart Command post
[50] LY224 Command Vehicles
[125] A2 Murchen

Anti-Tank Vehicles:
[400] Iron Heart ATMGs
[300] LY6 Werewolf Assault Gun/Tank Destroyer
[340] ATD-01 Dra Lahdyin
[100] LY219 ATMGs

Artillery:
[225] LY219/220 Shepherd STMRAD
[65] 155mm 45-calibre, towed gun howitzer " TAC-12 "
[150] 152-mm Self-propelled Howitzer 2S19 "MSTA-S"
[300] 130-mm Self-propelled Gun 2S9 "Bereg"
[400] Iron Heart Mortars

Multiple Rocket Launchers:
[1116] LY300 Manticore
[200] ASTROS II

Anti-Aircraft Systems:
[10] LY471 Skyguard Battery
[120] The D1-AA " Tnykuhc Daadr "(Dragons Teeth)
[200] Type 3 " Vino " SPAAGM
[1000] Iron Heart SAMs

Recovery Vehicles:
[180] LY224 Armoured Recovery

Medical Vehicles
[400] Iron Heart Ambulances
[250] LY219 Ambulances

Rhydin Imperial Republic Navy (RIRN)
All surface vessels of the RIRN are provided for by: Lyran Arms
All submarine vessels of the RIRN are provided for by: Harl L' Qu'mados Technologies

Submarines
* SSN (Fast Attack Submarine):
(207) Chiana (Betrayal) class

* CVSN (Submarine Carrier):
(34) Uoi'nota (Hell) class

* CASN (Strike Cruiser):
(56) Quellarin (Castle) class

* HCSN (Heavy Cruiser):
(49) Xar'zith (Ice) class

* SBC (Submarine Battlecruiser):
(22) Reverence class

* SF (Sub Fighter):
(15800) Dasbacd (Tempest) Class Submersible Interceptor Fighter
(7800) Nota'man (Devil) Class Submersible Marine-Superiority Heavy Fighter
(2200) Cenah (Siren) Class Submersible Interceptor Fighter

Major surface combatants

* Aircraft Carrier:
(62) Maelthra (Dragon) Class

Total Carrier Based-
(200): LY909A Sparrowhawk Aerocraft
(650): HAD S39N Viper
(550): HAD S38N Mamba

Currently in the market to fill the surface navy role.

* Dreadnoughts (0):

* Cruisers (8): Battleaxe Cruisers

* Destroyers (0):

* Frigates (20): Hatchet-class modular multi-role frigate

* Guided Missile Warships (3): Longsword-class Supercapital Guided Missile Warship

* Corvettes (0):

Patrol ships
* Patrol Boats (PCF):
* Patrol Boats (PCF):
* Patrol hydrofoils (PTF):

Amphibious ships
* Amphibious Assault Ship: (20) Kazatlan-class
* Landing ship dock (LSD):
* Landing ship tank (LST):
* Landing ship hovercraft:

Mine warfare
* Minesweeper:

Support ships
* Fleet oilers (AOR):
* Surveillance ships:
* Logistic support:

Rhydin Imperial Republic Aeroforce Services (RIRAS)
All aerocraft of the RIRAS are provided for by: Lyran Arms Except those aerocraft that came with us during the exile. These aerocraft will be phased out in the coming upgrade as we rebuild our military forces.

Light Utility Helicopters
[1,000] K45A2 'Vandal'

Light Attack Helicopters
[1480] TRA-92 "Eiko"

Multi-Role Fighters
[100] LY908A Warhawk
[600] LY909A Sparrowhawk
[650] HAD S39N Viper
[550] HAD S38N Mamba

[The Greater Somali Union]

How can you support a population of 8 billion with such a small land mass?

[The City State Rhydin]

How can you support a population of 8 billion with such a small land mass?

I havent updated of late, but the population isnt restricted to just the above surface land mass.