The Scramble for Earth (Interest, OOC)

[Republic of the Cristo]

A suspicious looking Russian ship entering Japanese waters? Sounds fishy to me..

Is it because he's Russian?

... Racist

[Sabara]

A suspicious looking Russian ship entering Japanese waters? Sounds fishy to me..

Is it because he's Russian?

... Racist

*an imperialist state

[The Grand Republic of Hannover]

Do we have a China yet? I would like to have some negotiations.

[Republic of the Cristo]

Is it because he's Russian?

... Racist

*an imperialist state

Just because he's Russian that means he is imperialist?

... Racist

[Sabara]

*an imperialist state

Just because he's Russian that means he is imperialist?

... Racist

..that's shipping suspicious cargo through my territory, lol. Any foreign destroyer on sovereign waters is a clear violation.

[Kanaria]

APPLICATION

~Basic Information~
Country name, short (do not choose individual states in the E.U.): Argentina
Country name, formal: Argentine Republic
Ideology and political system: Capitalist federal presidential constitutional republic
Current head of state and title: President Amalia Vernet
Current head of government and title: President Amalia Vernet

~Economy and Demographics~
Population, total (2024): 45.116 million
Birth rate: 2.24 births per woman
Nominal GDP (2024): 683.08 billion USD
Unemployment rate: 7.1%
Energy self-sufficiency (as percentage): 4.8%
Key electricity sources (mention share of each): Nuclear (21%), hydroelectric (39%), fossil fuels (40%)
Key natural resources: Boron, salt, dolomite, limestone

~Military Affairs~
Active personnel: 95,000
Reserve personnel: 45,658
Military aircraft (count): 200
Navy vessels (differentiate surface and subsurface vessels): 20 surface vessels, 4 subsurface vessels
Military funding (USD per year): 9 billion
Doctrine (see notes, above): Force projection

~Strategic Warfare Resources~
Nuclear technology (yes or no): No
Nuclear bombs (number): 0
Nuclear power plants (total power output): 9.84 GW
Bio-weapon capabilities (yes or no): No
Delivery systems (how to get bomb from point A to point B): None

~History~
In 2015, after the ongoing debt crisis dragged down Argentina's economy, a mad election occurred. With CFK unable to run again, her Justicialist Party and Frente para la Victoria scrambled bloodily for a successor. They came up with one, Florencio Randazzo, who took over in time for the elections later on that year. The FpV's share of the Congress was cut to 35%, and a runoff took place between Randazzo and Margarita Stolbizer of UNEN, which took 40% of Congress. Ultimately, Stolbizer narrowly won with just 51% of the vote. She promptly continued Kirchner's jingoism on the Falkland Islands, buying a new missile system and trying to renew Argentina's decaying navy. However, the Argentine debt crisis distracted her, and she was forced to concede to the vultures' demands or face an inflation-induced depression in 2017. Argentina's economy recovered and began to bounce back again by 2019, in which the UNEN coalition won a bigger majority. Two years later, the oil crisis struck. Argentina suffered only a moderate gas price rise, but its' economy contracted all the same- this being due to Neuquen Province's oil reserves in Vaca Muerta and Los Molles. Amalia Vernet succeeded Stolbizer in 2023 elections, as part of a new coalition, this one surprisingly including the Peronists: the National Welfare Coalition.[/spoiler]

Can I still submit this?

[Republic of the Cristo]

IC anyone?

[Republic of the Cristo]

Just because he's Russian that means he is imperialist?

... Racist

..that's shipping suspicious cargo through my territory, lol. Any foreign destroyer on sovereign waters is a clear violation.

WHY! Is it because the cargo and ship in question that is violating your sovereign waters is RUSSIAN!

... racist

[Kanaria]

IC anyone?

I would...has my application been accepted yet?

[Republic of the Cristo]

IC anyone?

I would...has my application been accepted yet?

Whats the Justice for Jane Doe thing?

[Kanaria]

I would...has my application been accepted yet?

Whats the Justice for Jane Doe thing?

It's a petition to the Justice Department to investigate the rape of a woman in California. I haven't removed it from my sig, it's been there for at least a year...

[Republic of the Cristo]

Whats the Justice for Jane Doe thing?

It's a petition to the Justice Department to investigate the rape of a woman in California. I haven't removed it from my sig, it's been there for at least a year...

oh

[Kanaria]

It's a petition to the Justice Department to investigate the rape of a woman in California. I haven't removed it from my sig, it's been there for at least a year...

oh

Yep.
Anything special in the IC involving Argentina yet? If not, I'll be getting to some work on a map I'm making.

[Republic of the Cristo]

oh

Yep.
Anything special in the IC involving Argentina yet? If not, I'll be getting to some work on a map I'm making.

Nothing with south America yet. Does your map have anything to do with the IC?

Also, posted! Invasion in 3 hours!

[Kanaria]

Yep.
Anything special in the IC involving Argentina yet? If not, I'll be getting to some work on a map I'm making.

Nothing with south America yet. Does your map have anything to do with the IC?

Also, posted! Invasion in 3 hours!

Nope. It's a map of the nation I'm posting as.

[Republic of the Cristo]

Nothing with south America yet. Does your map have anything to do with the IC?

Also, posted! Invasion in 3 hours!

Nope. It's a map of the nation I'm posting as.

interesting.

[The Grand Republic of Hannover]

Nothing with south America yet. Does your map have anything to do with the IC?

Also, posted! Invasion in 3 hours!

Nope. It's a map of the nation I'm posting as.

Would Argentina be interested in a trade deal with India?

[Kanaria]

Nope. It's a map of the nation I'm posting as.

Would Argentina be interested in a trade deal with India?

Yeah. Whatcha got to trade?
edit: dayum this is big.
Vaca Muerta, I mean.

Vaca Muerta (in Spanish literally Dead Cow) is a geologic formation of Jurassic and Cretaceous age, located at Neuquén Basin in Argentina. It is best known as the host rock for major deposits of tight oil (shale oil) and shale gas.

The large oil discovery in the Vaca Muerta Formation was made in 2010 by the former Repsol-YPF, which announced the discovery in May 2011.[1] The total proven reserves are around 927 million barrels (147.4×106 m3), and YPF's production alone is nearly 45,000 barrels per day (7,200 m3/d).[2][3][4] In February 2012, Repsol YPF SA raised its estimate of oil reserves to 22.5 billion barrels (3.58×109 m3).[5][6] The US EIA estimates total recoverable hydrocarbons from this Vaca Muerta Formation to be 16.2 billion barrels (2.58×109 m3) of oil and 308 trillion cubic feet (8.7×1012 m3) of natural gas, more than even the Neuquén Basin's hydrocarbon-rich Middle Jurassic Los Molles Formation holds.[7]

It's in the west of the country in Patagonia...I wonder what will happen with this thing now.

[Republic of the Cristo]

IC anyone?

[Zadiner]

Idk what to post about

[Republic of the Cristo]

Idk what to post about

who are you again?

[Sebtopiaris]

APPLICATION

~Basic Information~
Country name, short (do not choose individual states in the E.U.): Brazil
Country name, formal: The Federative Republic of Brazil
Ideology and political system: Federal presidential constitutional republic
Current head of state and title: President Cezar O'Leary
Current head of government and title: President Cezar O'Leary

~Economy and Demographics~
Population, total (2024): 230,112,512
Birth rate: 2.06
Nominal GDP (2024): 2.825 trillion
Unemployment rate: 9 percent
Energy self-sufficiency (as percentage): 83%
Key electricity sources (mention share of each): natural gas (9%), oil (8%), coal (8%), shale oil (5%), hydroelectric (36%), nuclear (8%), other renewable (28%)

Key natural resources: Timber, petroleum, iron, gold

~Military Affairs~
MILITARY SERVICE IS COMPULSORY FOR 18-45 YEAR OLDS, 123,244,161 available for service
Active personnel: 472,240
Reserve personnel: 2,492,903
Military aircraft (count): 727
Navy vessels (differentiate surface and subsurface vessels): 90 surface, 41 subsurface
Military funding (USD per year): 4.06 billion
Doctrine (see notes, above):
Blitzkrieg!
~Strategic Warfare Resources~
Nuclear technology (yes or no): no
Nuclear bombs (number): no
Nuclear power plants (total power output): yes, 8% of total power produced
Bio-weapon capabilities (yes or no): yes, we're very much capable, but we don't really have many as of 2026 due to international war. We could cook up some easily... but... erm... we'd never do that! That'd be in violation of the Geneva convention n shits!
Delivery systems (how to get bomb from point A to point B): planes and subs mainly, we have a fair few non-nuclear ballistic missiles as well.

~History~
Shit's been pretty chill, overall. Brazil spent much of it's time before the crisis of 2024 energy-wise investing in hydroelectric and other sources, and when the crisis struck Brazil began to harness more local fossil fuels as well as nuclear and existing renewable sources. The GDP's dipped a fair bit and unemployment's risen to 9 percent, but overall Brazil did extremely well during the crisis, with many calling it the "south american energy tiger". During the crisis, Brazil also became more isolationist diplomatically, and while trade was still big given Brazil's abundance of natural recourses currently Brazil cannot be said to lean to either the west or the east alliance-wise. O'leary, the current president, comes from a united front of rag-tag centrists and pragmatists that formed in the last election. O'leary himself is pretty pragmatic, and he nationalised a lot of the industry in order to make sure his country didn't collapse in the crisis. As said before, he did pretty well.

So, Brazil is now neutral geopolitically, has an economy with a dent but not a collapse, and is gliding pretty well through the disaster. O'leary's approval rates are generally high via his optimist rhetoric and the country's performance compared to the rest of Latin America. Time will tell if this good performance continues...

[Republic of the Cristo]

So, who all is in the anti-western alliance?

Myself, Russia, South Africa, pretty soon I am guessing North Korea?

[Slovak States]

So, who all is in the anti-western alliance?

Myself, Russia, South Africa, pretty soon I am guessing North Korea?

That sounds right.

[Republic of the Cristo]

So, who all is in the anti-western alliance?

Myself, Russia, South Africa, pretty soon I am guessing North Korea?

That sounds right.

So, what is our kind of ideology? Nationalistic, militarialistic, autocracy?