This means I'll soon get to my first IC post.
Auchterland wrote:before another bug erases all of my work, I'm posting this as a WIP, just gotta add the military part laterNationstates Name: Auchterland
Nation Name: Republic of Australia
Roleplay example link: Here.
Capital: Canberra
Type of Government: Constitutional presidential republic
Head of State(s): Alexis Hou Abraham
Image of Leader:
Party in Power: National Civist Party
Executive Title: President
Demographics: Around 18.5 million.
Flag:
National Anthem: Advance Australia Fair
Public Goals: To support a new global order based on multilateral cooperation between democratic States and oppose imperialism.
Private Goals: To open more markets for Australia and purge the region from "dangerous ideologies".
Total military size: 216,540 active, 712,250 reserve.
Breakdown of ground sector: The Australian Army is composed by 68,450 active personnel and 242,350 as part of the reserve. The infantry's main assault rifle is a F88 Steyr that may be equipped with the M9 Bayonet and the M203 grenade launcher, with the Self-Loading Pistol 9 millimetre Mark 3 as a sidearm. Snipers use the Parker-Hale M82. Regarding artillery pieces, it makes use of the M2A2 Howitzer, the L5 Pack Howitzer, the M198 Howitzer and the L118/L119 Hamel Light Gun. The model of mortar used is the L16 81mm, and the RBS 70 as an anti-air defence. Lastly, as an anti-armor weapon, the adopted model is the 66 mm Short-Range Anti-Armour Weapon (M72 LAW). On the matter of vehicles, the Australian Army is served by 101 Leopard 1 tanks, consisting of 90 MBTs, 5 bridgelayers and 6 armored recovery vehicles; 27 long range patrol vehicles; and makes extensive use of the Land Rover Perentie.
Breakdown of naval sector: 7 frigates, 4 destroyers, 6 minesweepers, 17 patrol boats, 7 landing crafts, 2 general purpose, 8 lighters, 3 survey ships, 6 submarines, 2 tugboats and 2 submarine rescue boats.
Breakdown of airforce sector: 75 McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, 43 A8 General Dynamics F-111C Aardvark, 31 A9 Lockheed P-3 Orion, 66 A2 Bell UH-1 Iroquois, 18 A22 Aerospatiale AS.350B Squirrel, 124 A65 Douglas C-47 Dakota, 36 A97 Lockheed C-130 Hercules, 26 A4 De Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou.
Major foreign military suppliers: The UK, the UAS and Germany.
Currency: Australian dollar
Major import/export partners: The Commonwealth, China and southeast Asia are Australia's greatest commercial partners. Special attention must be paid to the position that its construction materials and construction services sectors have conquered in southeast Asia and the Pacific, as a result of its participation in rebuilding countries that were once occupied by Japan after the wars of liberation, as well as shipbuilding in the region. Australia has also increasingly explored the exportation of agrarian products to the Middle East.
Major Domestic Issues:Major Foreign Issues:
- Ideological rivalries
- Peripheric areas lacking in infrastructure
- Eventual demands for greater provincial autonomy
- Crime and corruption
History: The first seeds for australian autonomy were planted still in the early 19th century, when settlers became increasingly resentful of the colonial administration and courts favoring wealthy ranchers. This increased when local legislatures were set up and the voting system was bound to the possession of property. Intellectual circles inspired by the works of Thomas Paine and others spread ideas of dissent among liberal professionals and laborers, sometimes going as far as advocating republican ideals. Protests became frequent throughout the 1840s, until universal male suffrage was instituted in the 1850s.
- Other countries' spheres of influence keeping markets closed to Australia
- The advances of ideologically uncompatible blocs
- The Commonwealth sometimes limiting the scope of what Australia can and can't do regarding its foreign policy
In the 1880s, public life was stirred by another question. Heaps of immigrants who would work for almost any price were coming from Asia, a great opportunity for contractors who didn't want to deal with increasingly demanding labor unions. This motivated a varied number of responses. Nativist sentiments grew and were strongly associated with integralist movements, motivating attacks against immigrant communities. Social democrats demanded the government to step in and assert minimum wages and better labor conditions by law. Communists and anarchists carried out bombings and assassinations against business owners and government officials.
In 1889, the powder keg finally exploded. Numerous of these groups made their own moves to rebel and declare the independence of Australia, turning it into a bloody mess for four years until the United Kingdom had to acknowledge it wouldn't be able to maintain its lordship over Australia. Thus, it came to a compromise with the liberal republicans and social democrats, recognizing the Republic of Australia that they declared, as long as they kept the australian market open to the UK.
The following decades would see much work and many changes, including the rebuilding of post-war Australia, the pacification of politics (not without strong persecution against the most aggressive and leading figures among integralists, communists and anarchists) and the expansion of the civil rights of women and aboriginals, following a number of protests and polemical judicial cases.
The overall tone of public life was optimistic until an economic crisis hit the country at the dawn of the 1930s. The political life became more agitated again. A group of progressive liberals and moderate social democrats converged to form the Civist Party, promising to fix the crisis. They quickly gained space in the government and implemented a number of welfare programs, controlling the rise of poverty, and anti-trust policies, increasing competitivity and revitalizing the market. The success of the measures that it took won the Civist Party got them to dominate the national politics for the following decades.
In the 1940s, the UK, UAS and Germany sought to make Australia join their offensive against Japan, generating extensive debates in the government. The Civist Party basically split between the pro-intervention Vanguard faction and the non-interventionist Patriot faction. In the end, the Vanguard came out on top and Australia joined the war, helping liberate many japanese-controlled territories. The conflict marked the height of australian nationalism and greatly influenced everyday life at the time. At the end of the war, Australia maintained New Guinea, Molucca and Lesser Sunda as mandates, and greatly invested in developing new institutions and infrastructure there.
However, throughout the 1950s, movements for greater autonomy rose in the mandate territories, and the costs of war and investments made there caused the Vanguard to lose public favor and the Patriots to make a comeback. Under their administration, the central government negotiated with local leaders and recognized the independence of the mandate territories.
The constant bickering between the two civist factions brought disunity and weakened the party, causing it to lose an election to a left-wing coalition in the 1960s. The new government started a series of projects that first conquered public opinion, but without much fiscal responsibility, the effects were soon felt. The civists, realizing what their mistakes had led to, held a national convention in which they dealt with the central issues that plagued the representants of the ideology and reformed it into the National Civist Party.
After slowly regaining public trust, the National Civist Party took the following years to correct the public finances. Australia seems to be back on its tracks for some time now, but now it faces itself with the need for new markets to fuel its growing industries, the need to adapt to the new era of information technology and the rapid social changes that come with it.
