Overview
The RP will start in August of 2014, right after the election of a new president. The setting will be in Afghanistan, a country that has been invaded by the Soviets in the Cold War and the United States in modern times, giving rise to growing rates of terrorism and suffering in the region. The government struggles to keep citizens safe from the growing threats,, with the ill-equipped military to properly fight off threats and the United States leaving the region in face of Pakistans growing influence in the northern regions which threaten the sovereignty of the government. In face of the new presidential election, a new direction for Afghanistan will usure after the leaving of president Hamid Karzai. Will you fight to maintain the unity and security of Afghanistan or will you turn corrupt and use the violence for personal gain?
Be aware that we will not be sticking to the current Afghanistan cabinet, as alot of it overlaps and it will turn into a cluster if we do it, so we will merge some positions together.
Goals
This will be player driven, and as a result players shall set their own individual goals.
Is the Minister of Interior patriotic enough to be determined to fight of crime and terror, or pragmatic enough to bribe and let crime flurish in the nation to meet his own ambitions?
Is the Defense Minister content with modernizing the military and ending the terror threat, or does he aspire to the Presidency himself, if he can gather enough power?
Is there a cadre of politically active officers in the army that despise the old military order and wish to purge it?
A journalist with a political vendetta, willing to cross any lines to get it?
The base rule this will operate on is that no player can act in complete isolation. If a player, for example, wishes to overthrow the government and establish a communist state, he must work with other players in military or political roles to make such an attempt possible. After all, no nation is built, or destroyed, on one man alone.
Political Situation
Following the disposition of the corrupt Taliban Government, elections have been held, though with the involved role of foreign interference in politics at present. The current government consists mainly of independent party members, with the occasional concession of a ministerial position to the other political parties in exchange for support.
Politics in Afghanistan are divided into three main parties excluding the independents:
Afghan Social Democratic Party: The Afghan Social Democratic Party, more commonly known as Afghan Mellat, is a Pashtun nationalist political party in Afghanistan. Controversially, the party's leadership describes it as social democratic, but it is not recognized as such by the Socialist International.
Hezbi Islami: An Islamist organization that was commonly known for fighting the Communist Government of Afghanistan and their close ally the Soviet Union. Founded and led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, it was established in Afghanistan in 1975. It grew out of the Muslim Youth organization, an Islamist organization founded in Kabul by students and teachers at Kabul University in 1969 to combat communism in Afghanistan. Its membership was drawn from ethnic Pashtuns, and its ideology from the Muslim Brotherhood and Abul Ala Maududi's Jamaat-e-Islami Hezbi Islami seeks to emulate the Ikhwan militia of Saudi Arabia and to replace the various tribal factions of Afghanistan with one unified Islamic state. This puts them at odds with the more tribe-oriented Taliban.
Jamiat-e Islami: The majority of the party, the oldest Muslim political party in Afghanistan, are ethnic Tajiks of northern and western Afghanistan. It has a communitarian ideology based on Islamic law but is also considered moderately progressive. During the Soviet war in Afghanistan and the following civil war in Afghanistan, Jamiat-e Islami was one of the most powerful of the mujahideen groups.
Character Roles
The characters in this RP will be divided into three main sections: Political figures, military figures and civil figures.
Political figures - Consisting of the current government and the opposition, these people have large exposure to the public and weild significant political power and control in their parties.
Military figures - Containing the officer corps and generals of the Afghanistan military, these men would appear to be the most powerful segment of society. This is not the case, as the generals must walk a fine line on political issues to avoid causing discontent amongst the old remnants of the Taliban and the popularity of the of Anti-Terror operations in the rank and file.
Civil figures - Made up of those individuals who work outside the structures of politics and the military, these figures can exert a great deal of influence on the population, but must be wary, as offending one of the more powerful groups is a quick way to be exiled or worse. However, should civil figures develop enough popularity amongst the general public, they can insulate themselves from danger by simply being too popular to "dispose off".
Paramilitary figures - those figures who are involved with the armed political struggles in Afghanistan.
Applications
I intend to try to moderate the application process very heavily, so please, take some time and make it good. The thing that will make or break this RP will be the quality of the RP in it. To that end, please only apply if you have extensive RP'ing experience as well as the time to commit to this RP.
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[box][size=120][b]NAME[/b][/size] - PARTY NAME [floatright][img]Image here, Preference to IRL politician[/img][/floatright]
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[b]Family:[/b] Spouse / kids / any family members that you don't want connections too
[b]Background:[/b]
[b]Support Base:[/b] Who supports them
[b]Weakness/flaw:[/b] Describe every weakness of the your character, could be as simple as "Known to buy drugs" to "Had an affair in 1978 and has daughter with cancer family doesn't know about, lack of weakness will either get you denied, or made them up for you (which is worse)
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Roster of accepted characters
Here is the google docs roaster.
IC Thread
TO COME SOON
but if you're the Interior Minister then that means ether there is a unity government in place, or the other guy that wants the presidency is of the SDP right?