Corporate Confederate Factbook

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The Corporate Confederacy of Rich and Corporations is a colossal, economically powerful nation, renowned for its suspicion of poets and notable for it's barren, polluted landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 930 million are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The small, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Commerce, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Novoburg. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing, Gambling, and Arms Manufacturing industries.

The prison-industrial complex is fueled by increasingly harsher sentences for relatively minor crimes, movies and computer games are strictly censored for violence, penurious citizens die from easily remedied ailments because they aren't 'taking enough initiative', and thieves are flogged in public for their crimes. Crime is pervasive, and the prison system are overflowing with inmates. Rich and Corporations's national animal is the Tanuki, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread hunting and deforestation, its national religion is centered on money, and its currency is the Larwa.

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Travel Guide:

What life is like in the Corporate Confederacy? What should travelers be aware of?

Entering the Country: Non-citizens aren't allowed to bring firearms into the country, along with certain foreign and invasive species. You must seperate your luggage into electronics, general, pet and scientific, with the proper stickers and permits. Electronics includes anything that could be scrambled by industrial irradiation machines (all baggage is heavily irradiated to avoid foreign species from entering the country). Scientific baggage requires the permit to first be signed off by your local scientific institution who must then forward the paperwork to the Bureau of Science Ethics of the Bureau of Investigation who will then consider it on the basis of its contents and the country it is departing from.

Bureaucracy:

Food and Water: Available. However real food costs easily twice as much as in other places, for reasons stated in the geography section. You can find industrially processed algae, often sold as cakes, pastries, powdered soup mixes, or pastes in many major supermarkets. Water is readily available, however is often sold as either luxury, standard, or reclaimed (for landscaping only) through immense pipe networks.

Geography: In the central valleys, once considered to be one of the great breadbaskets of the world, are currently dustbowls. This is due to widespread enviromental devastation due to unregulated industrial and agricultural production, and long-standing priorities of water to go towards industry, instead of farmland.

Weather: In most cities during the day; it's hot, muggy, the air filled with smog and soot. The soot is omnipresent and often in the morning drivers have to wash their windshields. Some cities near the Central Valleys are subject to seasonal duststorms. It is advised not to travel to the Corporate Confederacy if you have respiratory illnesses.

Customs:

Crime and Punishment: Travelers should keep in mind that it is mandatory to carry around your traveler's permit and passport at all times. Otherwise you will be subjected to fines and possibly jailtime.

Drugs: Soft drugs such as cannabis, tobbaco, khat, and ecstacy are legal and could be purchased in any major supermarket with the proper identification (ex. driver's liscense, traveler's permit) proving that you are of adult age.

The Police: The police tries not arrest foreigners, without strong evidence that is. That said, the Central Security Service Office and/or the National Police Agency will often keep track of you. So if you think you're being followed, you probably are. To best avoid suspicion, stay within the designated tourist zones.

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Fit male citizens reaching military age annually: 56,133,796

Manpower available for military service: ~250 million

~64.3 Trillion (GDP)*4.20% of GDP= ~$2.669 Trillion spent towards the military.


$69,113 per capita.


Assorted Economic Information:

Employment by Profession:

Civil Police and Detectives
Employment: 6.2 Million (0.674% of the population)
Annual mean wage: $68,000

Government Military Contractors


Employment by Industry:

National Government

Provincial and Local Government

Private Security and Investigation

Automobile Industry

Arms Industry

Mercenary Forces

Literacy: 87%

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Office of the President of the Corporate Confederacy
President: R. Ian Black
Deputy President: Vacant
Speaker of the National Assembly: Huo Phàil (3rd in line of succession)
Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly: John Strauss (4th in line of succession)

The President while given numerous powers in the constitution, he is rendered impotent by bureaucratic inertia, the influence of political interest groups, etc.

-Office of the Presidential Guard: Entrusted with the duty of protecting the President and his family, members of the line of succession, and the Presidential Palace.

Bureau of State Investigation

Office of the Procurator General
Procurator General: James M. Trevisan


The Office of the Procurator General is responsible for prosecuting citizens, enterprises, and other private organizations for the violation of laws based on evidence collected from the National Security Police or the Central Security Services. The Procurator General can issue orders and instructions for all procurators, voice protest over a law, verdict, decree, regulation, or definition, which had come into force. He also approves the appointment of Provincial Procurator Generals, who are subordinate to him and may be discharged by his request.


Office of the Inspector General
Inspector General: Louis Kimberley

The Office of the Inspector General is responsible for the correct execution of laws, procedures, decrees, regulations, mandates, and orders by state organizations, officials, and ministries, and can prosecute or investigate state organizations, officials and ministries for improper handling or violations of laws, procedures, decrees, regulations, mandates and orders. A majority of cases handled involve corruption, ethics, and negligence.


Bureau of Foreign Affairs
Director of Foreign Affairs: David Grey

-Office of Foreign Development: Provides aid in exchange for increased access to markets.
-Office of Protocol
-Office of Allied Affairs: Coordinates operations or diplomacy with allies.
-Office of Overseas Building Operations
-Office of International Security
-Office of Consular Affairs

Bureau of Public Accounts
-Office of Budget and Management
-Office of Foreign Trade
-Office of Domestic Trade and Industry
-Office of the Treasury
-Import-Export Bank of the Corporate Confederacy
-Office of Supply and Contract Settlement: This office assists the national government in procurement of office space, supplies, and vehicles.
-Office of Government Accountability
-Office of the Strategic Material Reserves

Bureau of Public Safety
Authorizes immigration, handles civil police matters, fire department, and the coast guard.
Director: Scott Hill

-Department of Narcotics
-Office of the National Security Police
-Office of Rescue Services
-Office of the Coast Guard
-Office of Building Codes
-Office of Civil Defence
-Citizens Department: Handles immigration, naturalization, and customs.
-Office of Prison Management: While the prison system has been privatized and is regulated by the National Essense Administration, the Office of Prison Management continues to supervise the transport of convicts, auction enslaved convicts, and authorize the lease of convicts.



National Military Establishment
Director: Tyler C. Mason
Commanding General of the Confederate Army
Commanding Admiral of the Confederate Navy
Chief of Central Security Services

-Office of Military Intelligence
-Office of the Military Investigative Service
-Office of Central Security Services
-Office of Signals and Geospatial Intelligence Organization
-Office of Coastal Defence and Infrastructure
-Office of Military Research and Procurement
-Office of the Navy and Air Force
--Strategic Defence Command
-Office of the Land Army
--Office of the Home Guard
--Office of Private Military Contractor Liaisons
-Office of Central Security Services
-Office of Logistics and Transport
-Office of Construction and Repair
-Office of Munitions and Ordnance



National Essence Administration
Director: Jack D. Ripper

The National Essence Administration is a monolithic regulatory agency tasked with the maintainance of the purity of mind, body and spirit of all residents, through the thourough regulation of all goods and services sold, imported, or produced in the Corporate Confederacy to prevent the contamination of the national collective essence from polluting threats, which includes regulating news media, and book publishing. They also regulate weight and measures nationwide and maintain a paramilitary force to quarantine contaminated individuals.

Suprisingly, it's unbiased and rather ethical compared to other agencies, and enforces regulations entrusted to it as it should.


Bureau of National Archival
-National Copyright Office
-National Printing Office
-Office of Statistics (conducts the census and collects various statistics)
-Office of Intelligence Analysis (collects information reports to the President)

National Welfare Administration

The aim is of the National Welfare Administration is to provide for the national welfare of the country, through it's services.
They distribute subsides in the form of tuition, food stamps, and subsidized health care, maintain a national education, health, and sanitation standard, construct national roadways, along with regulating private transit, and ensure the humane treatment of slaves and animals within the Corporate Confederacy.

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