Beyond Humanity (OOC/Open)

[Oscalantine]

By the way, when will the IC be up? Are we doing to be using the old IC?

[Greater Soviet Ukraine]

Nah, old IC is good.

[Kolvartia]

Tag

[Valloria]

-snip-

[Greater Soviet Ukraine]

Did you just say the Swiss invaded Italy? And then Germany and France started sucking Swiss dick? Yet Spain is just like "FUCK THAT SHIT, YOU CAN'T BEAT THIS?" And you expect us to believe it?

[Valloria]

-snip-

[In Gentem Et De Libris Scientiam]

Started this app four days ago, totally forgot about it, sorry. Here you go.

Country Name: The Federative Directorate of Wharland
Location: Here it is.
Population: 137,720,000
Government Description: Wharland, a large country in southwestern Europe, is a cyberneticist technocracy ruled by one of three main political parties. Currently, the Cybertech rules Wharland, lead by Administrative Director (head of state/government) Friedrich Zöller. While not strictly a corporatocracy, the three individual political parties employ about 90% of the country, considering they attempt to buy votes by employing most of the population in a variety of endeavors, including agriculture (in the French sector), technology (German, Swiss, and northern Italian sectors), and industry (southern Italy). This constant competition to provide the best service available to the employees has resulted in a comfy, social-democratic state in Wharland.

Elections occur every four years, and politicians are held accountable by the independent and supranational High Courts, which also judges the populace when crimes are committed. But under the veneer of a highly productive economy and an egalitarian society lies a severe case of income inequality, not of the haves and have-nots, but of the middle-class-haves and the above-the-law-haves. The richest 10% of the society can often buy their way out of any true justice, and since everyone works for the government in some way or another, no politician dares speak out against this. This has resulted in some of the intellectuals of society (those that aren't in the highest offices in the land, that is) becoming increasingly irate.
Economy Description: In the fertile lands of southern France, massive farms largely owned and operated by the Cybertech party dominate the landscape. In the mineral-rich Alps, miners live in lofty metal cities located entirely in above-ground towers connected by covered bridges. The technology hub that lies in southwestern Germany generates massive income for the Technocorp party's many constituents. Italy produces a majority of the clothing for the nation, managed in part by Allprod's fabrics productions wing. Throughout the nation, metallurgy dominates the economy. Roughly 37% of the nation is employed by Cybertech, 35% by Allprod, and 28% by Technocorp. The average income is about 27,500 onderons (the equivalent of $45,000 IRL).
Military Description: Wharland's highly advanced military is composed of 2,760,241 personnel, including 1,300,000 active-duty troops and 1,460,241 reservees, paratroopers, officers, command personnel, etc. Since Cybertech revolutionized the body enhancement market in 2092 with the advent of external body glove suits that were cheap to produce, versatile, and extremely durable, Wharland's military is outfitted with soldiers wearing these nigh-indestructible suits. While not actually attached to the wearer's body, some soldiers choose to undergo surgery to implant tapped holes into elbow, shoulder, knee, hip, wrist, and ankle joints. The suit can then be screwed into the body, sealing it to the body and making a pressurized environment. Even armor-piercing or explosive bullets will barely scratch a Cybersuit, however, tank blasts, high heat, bombs, explosions, and other whole-body attacks may result in the compromisation of weaker parts of the suit, such as the rear external heating pouch.
History and General Description: Wharland was founded out of three independent schisms: the dissolution of the European Union, the fracturing of France, and the fracturing of Germany. When the EU collapsed in 2064 (after being completely united as a single country for seven years), Switzerland invaded an economically-shattered Italy and created Wharland. Parts of Austria were later invaded, and then the Principality of France and the Kingdom of Germany both subjugated themselves (in 2072 and 2073, respectively) for increased protection against their neighbors. Twelve years ago, Wharland invaded the eastern coast of Spain and subjugated its populace. This invasion is part of Wharland's continuing campaign to control the Iberian peninsula, which has been met with varying degrees of both approval and success.
Faction: Cybernetics
RP Experience: Here and here.

You own MY land.
And I was accepted.

[Plzen]

Country, Corporation, or Terrorist Group?: Skoda Works (Corporation)
Location (Please mark on map if possible): Plzen, Czech Republic
Faction & Subgroup (Optional, though it helps me to know early on): Cyberneticists, Cybernetic egalitarian
2 Examples of your previous RP experience: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=335368, http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=344134

I wrote up this really beautiful application, but my phone decided to delete it for me by randomly reloading the page.

So I'm just dropping a reservation now, because I don't want to re-write that bloody thing until I have an actual keyboard around.

[Valloria]

-snip-

You own MY land.
And I was accepted.

Okay, just screw it. I'm going to app a corporation, or maybe a terrorist group. Conflicting territory claims and admittedly unbelievable origin stories stretched that too far. Forget that app ever existed, please.

[Plzen]

You own MY land.
And I was accepted.

Okay, just screw it. I'm going to app a corporation, or maybe a terrorist group. Conflicting territory claims and admittedly unbelievable origin stories stretched that too far. Forget that app ever existed, please.

Kakaka... Precisely why I try not to play countries in faction RPs with future setting.

[Skappola]

Country, Corporation, or Terrorist Group?: Skoda Works (Corporation)
Location (Please mark on map if possible): Plzen, Czech Republic
Faction & Subgroup (Optional, though it helps me to know early on): Cyberneticists, Cybernetic egalitarian
2 Examples of your previous RP experience: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=335368, http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=344134

I wrote up this really beautiful application, but my phone decided to delete it for me by randomly reloading the page.

So I'm just dropping a reservation now, because I don't want to re-write that bloody thing until I have an actual keyboard around.

Sure, Accepted

You own MY land.
And I was accepted.

Okay, just screw it. I'm going to app a corporation, or maybe a terrorist group. Conflicting territory claims and admittedly unbelievable origin stories stretched that too far. Forget that app ever existed, please.

If you wish. It was a good app, with a couple changes it could certainly be believable.

[Greater Soviet Ukraine]

You own MY land.
And I was accepted.

Okay, just screw it. I'm going to app a corporation, or maybe a terrorist group. Conflicting territory claims and admittedly unbelievable origin stories stretched that too far. Forget that app ever existed, please.

Forgiven, comrade

[Kolvartia]

May I reserve Spain? I'll do the app as as soon as possible.

[Skappola]

May I reserve Spain? I'll do the app as as soon as possible.

Sure.

[Plzen]

Corporation Name: Škoda Works (Škodovy Závody in Czech)

HQ Location: Plzeň, Czech Republic

Primary Source(s) of Revenue: As an industrial conglomerate, Škoda's sources of income are spread out all over the second sector, although its specialty is still heavy industry.

Size: Multinational

History and General Description:
When the century began in 2001, the Škoda empire, formerly so strong, lay in ruins. Pieces were scattered across owners and corporations. Škoda's resurgence began in 2037 when a mysterious man, known as Jaroslav Svoboda, acquired Škoda Investments in clandestine negotiations with the Appian Group, when this Netherlands-based investment group was beginning to collapse through its network of screen companies.

With the purchase of Škoda Power in 2041, Jaroslav Svoboda began to reorganize the scattered Škoda empire. The broad engineering expertise possessed by the various subsidiary companies allowed Škoda to offer some of the world's earliest low-cost cybernetics designed for the working classes. With previously unprecedented revenue being generated by the cybernetic devices and Škoda Vyzkum's (the company was re-acquired by Škoda Investments in 2049) new line of mind-controlled home electronics, Škoda Investments accelerated their growth.

Then, the crisis started to strike. What was expected to be just another excuse for strife in the unstable regions of the world slowly grew into the most powerful social movement of the 21st Century. On the 7th of September 2052, pro-Biodirectionist paramilitaries clashed with guards of the Catholic Church on city streets, producing six hundred casualties and property damage worth millions.

The incident happened in Prague. Škoda's backyard, practically.

Whilst tensions began to rise, Škoda Investment bought out the last independent company of the former Škoda empire - Škoda Auto - in 2056. The now-gigantic conglomerate, in which Škoda Investment owned majority stock in more than a dozen other Škoda companies, began to be referred to as the Škoda Works. Some time during the next ten years, the name stuck. Jaroslav Svoboda declared the name official.

Rising tensions forced many countries to increase their military spending. Svoboda instructed Škoda Auto to release a new line of armoured vehicles and eventually lines of tanks. Making full use of Škoda Vyzkum's cybernetics technology, Škoda Auto was able to design neuro-integrated machines of war. Tanks, which formerly took several crew to control, now was possible to run with only one trained soldier. The first line of armored vehicle, the Škoda tančík, was unveiled in 2061. Although the tančík was a small vehicle, covering just two square meters of space, with the release of the lehký tank line in 2065 and the střední tank models starting in 2069, Škoda Auto began to manufacture vehicles of larger and larger size, becoming one of Central Europe's premier defense contractors in the process.

The těžký tank line, already several years in development, was finally released in 2074 with the Škoda těžký tank vzor 2074 - or "Skoda heavy tank model 2074". Upon release, it was hailed as revolutionary. Integrating the latest in cybernetics and chemical engineering technologies, the device functionally became a one-man walking fortress, in which the driver's mind was directly although temporarily merged with the tank's artificial intelligence.

Even as Škoda produced more and more powerful weapons of war, its domestic situation became worse. The tensions caused by various forces opposing or supporting particular strands of bio-engineering finally reached a critical point. As a cybernetics company, the Škoda Works was ostracized by those countries and people taking an anti-cybernetics stance. Although the Škoda Works was able to keep the Czech parliament in Prague under its firm grasp, it was not so lucky in many other countries. By 2080, Škoda was an outright banned organization in thirty countries and rising. Most of these were poor countries which were of no importance to Škoda. But a couple were key markets. Škoda facilities were attacked by paramilitaries on almost a weekly basis.

Škoda was forced to become a military organization itself merely to survive. In the last two decades of the 21st century, the Škoda Works was not merely fighting for tax breaks and new markets. It was fighting, quite literally using weapons of war, for its very existence.

The weapons expenditure cut very deeply into Škoda's profits, sending its stock prices plunging. It was forced to even develop its own line of rifles as the companies which Škoda used to buy small arms from took an anti-cybernetics stance and stopped trading with Škoda.

Another mystery struck around this point. Even if Jaroslav Svoboda was just twenty years old when he acquired Škoda Investments, by now he would be eighty-three years old. Yet his voice never changed, nor did he grow senile or ill.

Rumors abounded. Was he a biodirectionist, running contrary to his company's cybernetics philosophy? Was he not a "he" at all, but rather an alias of many people? Was he even an artificial intelligence?

Certainly any of those would explain why Jaroslav never made a public appearance, gave his directions through e-mail and absolutely nobody recalled actually seeing the man.

Whatever the truth is, the 21st Century now draws to a close. Škoda stands on the brink of a new age of prosperity - or a violent defeat and collapse against the truly many paramilitary forces that were now opposed to it.

Faction: Cyberneticists

Subgroup: Cybernetic egalitarian (kinda)

2 Examples of your previous RP experience: Already on my prior reservation

[Oscalantine]

Are we back at this? Awesome~!!!

I am still here! I am still in !! ^^

[Plzen]

Will the IC be up anytime soon?

[Skappola]

Corporation Name: Škoda Works (Škodovy Závody in Czech)

HQ Location: Plzeň, Czech Republic

Primary Source(s) of Revenue: As an industrial conglomerate, Škoda's sources of income are spread out all over the second sector, although its specialty is still heavy industry.

Size: Multinational

History and General Description:
When the century began in 2001, the Škoda empire, formerly so strong, lay in ruins. Pieces were scattered across owners and corporations. Škoda's resurgence began in 2037 when a mysterious man, known as Jaroslav Svoboda, acquired Škoda Investments in clandestine negotiations with the Appian Group, when this Netherlands-based investment group was beginning to collapse through its network of screen companies.

With the purchase of Škoda Power in 2041, Jaroslav Svoboda began to reorganize the scattered Škoda empire. The broad engineering expertise possessed by the various subsidiary companies allowed Škoda to offer some of the world's earliest low-cost cybernetics designed for the working classes. With previously unprecedented revenue being generated by the cybernetic devices and Škoda Vyzkum's (the company was re-acquired by Škoda Investments in 2049) new line of mind-controlled home electronics, Škoda Investments accelerated their growth.

Then, the crisis started to strike. What was expected to be just another excuse for strife in the unstable regions of the world slowly grew into the most powerful social movement of the 21st Century. On the 7th of September 2052, pro-Biodirectionist paramilitaries clashed with guards of the Catholic Church on city streets, producing six hundred casualties and property damage worth millions.

The incident happened in Prague. Škoda's backyard, practically.

Whilst tensions began to rise, Škoda Investment bought out the last independent company of the former Škoda empire - Škoda Auto - in 2056. The now-gigantic conglomerate, in which Škoda Investment owned majority stock in more than a dozen other Škoda companies, began to be referred to as the Škoda Works. Some time during the next ten years, the name stuck. Jaroslav Svoboda declared the name official.

Rising tensions forced many countries to increase their military spending. Svoboda instructed Škoda Auto to release a new line of armoured vehicles and eventually lines of tanks. Making full use of Škoda Vyzkum's cybernetics technology, Škoda Auto was able to design neuro-integrated machines of war. Tanks, which formerly took several crew to control, now was possible to run with only one trained soldier. The first line of armored vehicle, the Škoda tančík, was unveiled in 2061. Although the tančík was a small vehicle, covering just two square meters of space, with the release of the lehký tank line in 2065 and the střední tank models starting in 2069, Škoda Auto began to manufacture vehicles of larger and larger size, becoming one of Central Europe's premier defense contractors in the process.

The těžký tank line, already several years in development, was finally released in 2074 with the Škoda těžký tank vzor 2074 - or "Skoda heavy tank model 2074". Upon release, it was hailed as revolutionary. Integrating the latest in cybernetics and chemical engineering technologies, the device functionally became a one-man walking fortress, in which the driver's mind was directly although temporarily merged with the tank's artificial intelligence.

Even as Škoda produced more and more powerful weapons of war, its domestic situation became worse. The tensions caused by various forces opposing or supporting particular strands of bio-engineering finally reached a critical point. As a cybernetics company, the Škoda Works was ostracized by those countries and people taking an anti-cybernetics stance. Although the Škoda Works was able to keep the Czech parliament in Prague under its firm grasp, it was not so lucky in many other countries. By 2080, Škoda was an outright banned organization in thirty countries and rising. Most of these were poor countries which were of no importance to Škoda. But a couple were key markets. Škoda facilities were attacked by paramilitaries on almost a weekly basis.

Škoda was forced to become a military organization itself merely to survive. In the last two decades of the 21st century, the Škoda Works was not merely fighting for tax breaks and new markets. It was fighting, quite literally using weapons of war, for its very existence.

The weapons expenditure cut very deeply into Škoda's profits, sending its stock prices plunging. It was forced to even develop its own line of rifles as the companies which Škoda used to buy small arms from took an anti-cybernetics stance and stopped trading with Škoda.

Another mystery struck around this point. Even if Jaroslav Svoboda was just twenty years old when he acquired Škoda Investments, by now he would be eighty-three years old. Yet his voice never changed, nor did he grow senile or ill.

Rumors abounded. Was he a biodirectionist, running contrary to his company's cybernetics philosophy? Was he not a "he" at all, but rather an alias of many people? Was he even an artificial intelligence?

Certainly any of those would explain why Jaroslav never made a public appearance, gave his directions through e-mail and absolutely nobody recalled actually seeing the man.

Whatever the truth is, the 21st Century now draws to a close. Škoda stands on the brink of a new age of prosperity - or a violent defeat and collapse against the truly many paramilitary forces that were now opposed to it.

Faction: Cyberneticists

Subgroup: Cybernetic egalitarian (kinda)

2 Examples of your previous RP experience: Already on my prior reservation

Accepted!

[Skappola]

Will the IC be up anytime soon?

Hmmm, perhaps Friday?

[Oscalantine]

Will the IC be up anytime soon?

Hmmm, perhaps Friday?

I am down with friday^^

[Plzen]

Friday?

Ah... Okee... Don't expect daily posts from me for the first two weeks or so, then. I'll likely be quite busy for a couple weeks starting next Monday.

[Claven]

So, can I rejoin or has someone taken India?

[Sulania]

Tag.

Thinking of doing a terrorist group, either religious or a Promethean faction based group.

Will write up app...

[Kolvartia]

WIP

Country Name: Republic of Spain
Location (Please mark on Map):
Population: 47 million
Government Description:
Economy Description:
Military Description: (Exact figures needed, please make active military troops no more than 5% of Population)
History and General Description:
In the 2020s, rising tensions between the supporters of the two “main” parties and their supporters (The PP, its main supporters being the upper class and wealthy people; and the PSOE, its main supporters being the common people) led to the Second Spanish Civil War, culminating in aPSOE victory and formation of the republic.

The PSOE with its current leader, attempts to create an equal society, seeking to make everyone able to afford cybernetic implants. For this, the government has the assistance of the only two Spanish corporations proficient in this sector: Nueva Tecnología specialized in cybernetic replacements and Unión Cibernética specialized in other types of implants.

Faction: Cybernetic Egalitarians
Subgroup (Optional):
2 Examples of your previous RP experience:

[The V O I D]

You, sir, have caught my attention. Many RPs have accomplished this, yes, but I am very intrigued.
Unfortunately, I am OPing my own RP as well as being apart of a second RP, while taking care of real life issues.
So, on to my question: will this remain open for apps forever? If so, my worries are no longer of concern. I want to app something, but I'm not sure what I wish to app as of yet.

Also, my app will be up when I have less on my plate. Meaning sometime next week.