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Country: La República Socialista de México
Head of State/Leader: Miguel Rivera
Location: Mexico, sans the anarchic states and Baja California, every Central American nation (excluding Panama), Columbia, and Venezuela.
Government Type: Communist
Capital: Ciudad de México
National Debuffs:American Pressure: America is distinctly uncomfortable with the idea of a large Communist nation on its southern border, and has been publicly condemning the RSM's annexation of central american countries over the past few years. The RSM has responded with a strong stance of national sovereignty and a buildup of military forces using the resources of the nations that have "joined" the RSM. They have been pressuring America to reduce their presence in the country of Panama through both political and economic means. As a result, relations between the RSM and America are considered chilly at best, and outright hostile at worst.
Developing Infrastructure: The RSM is still developing infrastructure and a strong industrial base, and though work programs and nationalized industry have accelerated the process, they have yet to establish a strong infrastructure base throughout the RSM. Specifically in Central America, where they are still consolidating control.
Rebels in the Hills: In the mountainous, jungle regions of Central America, the People's Army of the RSM are still rooting out the last of the criminal gangs and warlords that previously ruled the once-chaotic nations. The RSM annexed these nations after providing subtle political pushes to drive them into anarchy, claiming they were "establishing order." The rebels are dwindling in number, but they could still pose a real threat if they are not extinguished quickly. And in the North of Mexico, the People's Army is still attempting to drive out the cartels and establish order in the anarchic states that still suffer from elements of Anarchy due to the mountainous desert terrain.
A Split Party: The cracks between Rivera's and Trosky's vision have begun to show, and while currently they are civil and still working together, Trotsky has criticized the RSM's absorption of the Central American nations and argues that they should have simply supported the revolution in those nations.
GDP: $123 Billion. While international trade was disrupted from 1916-onwards, the RSM has the one resource that every nation on earth still needs: oil. Due to the rich crude oil fields in what was formerly Venezuela, the RSM has managed to carve out a niche in the new world economy as a economic juggernaut who is willing to sell to any nation regardless of political status, though they do give special preference to nations that have also undergone the cultural revolution. The RSM also produce most of the world's luxury goods, with huge amounts of gold, silver, spices and coffee being mined and farmed in central and south america, able to sell them at set prices that allow them to be bought with what resources the ravaged nations of the world have left.
Population: 156.3 Million
History: La República Socialista de México formed as a direct response to the economic crash of 1925 and the flood of deported Mexican-Americans from their northern neighbors, introducing over a million displaced, hungry refugees into a nation already pushed to the brink of collapse by economic hardship and incompetent governance by the federal government of the United Mexican States. The same political movement that had grown in Russia began to take root in the slums of Mexico, fueled by Leon Trotsky, who had moved to Mexico following his expulsion from the Party by Joseph Stalin. Communist uprisings began to form in the outlying Mexican states within a year, and in 1927 the Estados Unidos de México dissolved and was replaced by La República Socialista de México, with the party led by a Charismatic young man by the name of Miguel Rivera, with Leon Trotsky as his right-hand man and advisor.
The nation was quickly stabilized by Secretario General del Partido Comunista Miguel Rivera, who began to be referred to as El Secretario. The People's Army distributed food and clothes from the cities out to the starving farmers and rural citizens of the newly-formed nation, and quickly called on all able-bodied men to join the state-sponsored workforces that were established by the first Congress of the new nation. Roads and rail lines were the immediate priority, and the nation saw a re invigoration of it's failing and often non-existent infrastructure, which put millions of previously-unemployed individuals back to work. Farms that were previously dedicated to cash crops and owned by absent, often cruel landlords were reappropriated and given to the people, who were encouraged to grow grain, corn, and potatoes to make up for the shortfall of food caused by the international economic collapse.
Grants and citizenship were offered to any scientist or doctor that wished to move to Mexico, and those already in Mexico were encouraged with increased rations and funding for research in order to develop the medical and scientific fields of the Mexican nation. Propaganda programs were developed by Trotsky to develop a sense of intense national pride and party loyalty, emphasizing the importance of helping your fellow man and lifting them up out of poverty and destitution by contributing your labor to the greater good. Over the course of a year and a half, the motivated, young populace of the new Mexican state transformed from an underdeveloped, struggling nation, into a developing powerhouse under the direction of Trotsky and Rivera.
Over the next decade, the RSM would destabilize the already-precarious nations of Central America and promote Communist ideology in Columbia and Venezuela, ultimately resulting in the absorption of these nations into the RSM and the resulting glut of natural resources and manpower launched the RSM into a position rare in the current world--One of unity rather than division, and economic resurgence rather than decline. As a result of the Monroe Doctrine practiced by the USA, none of the European conflicts bled into the Central and South American nations, allowing the RSM to perform a military and infrastructural buildup over the course of the last decade. Rebels in the hills of south america, sponsored by warlords that deal in narcotics and drugs, are still a problem for the burgeoning nation, though it has a glut of money and resources to throw at the problem due to the RSM's proliferation of Venezuela's massive oil reserves. The People's Navy and Army have both been developed to protect the nation's shipping lanes from unrestricted warfare, and the RSM has sold the precious resource indiscriminately to fund the nations' infrastructure and military development.
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2020 6:55 pm
