[OOC] Death, Oil & Paradise | Faction Based NRP | Banana Republic & Military Junta (with a twist)

[Theodorable]

Death, Oil and Paradise

The South American country of Melizea is a long time failed petrol state. Dependent almost completely on oil and tourism, her shores have long been infested with a line of unstable military commandants, jefe's and puppet presidents. 2020 is no different, with an upcoming election that is all but a farce, the poor will continue on being poor, the rich will get richer and all will be well. Reports of a unique new strain of rabies in rural China are barely a bloop on the radar. Melizea is home to nearly thirty-nine million people, sharing a border with three other countries and host to the island nation of San Sofía just off the coast.

Mechanics of Death, Oil and Paradise
- Presidential Election

• All players will vote in a preliminary election to determine the President of Melizea.
  • All players have one vote.
  • In the case of a tie, a random winner will be assigned.
  • The President lasts 6 turns, and then a new election is held.
• Choosing a Cabinet
  
  • The President will choose a cabinet for the below positions, dependent on player count.
    
    • 3 Players: Minister of Security, Minister of Defense
    • 4 Players: Minister of Security, Minister of Defense, Foreign Minister
    • 5 Players: Minister of Security, Minister of Defense, Foreign Minister, General of the Army
    • 6 Players: Minister of Security, Minister of Defense, Foreign Minister, General of the Army, Admiral of the Navy
  • Each Minister has it's own unique ability.
    
    • Minister of Security: Has control of the Secret Police, may move them according to his will and order their Alignment.
    • Minister of Defense: Has control of Military Spending to purchase new military units and assign them to a General or Admiral. May issue orders to the General and Admiral.
    • Minister of Foreign Minister: Handles all Foreign Requests.
    • General of the Army: Has control of his own Army units, may move them according to his will and order their Alignment.
    • Admiral of the Navy: Has control of his own Navy units, may move them according to his will and order their Alignment.
  • Goal of the Game
    
    • Melizean Objective: The objective of all players is to ensure the State of Melizea continues to function as a nation and does not descend into complete anarchy, this is determined by the Stability Rating.
      
      • Stability Rating: 0 to 10.
      • There are 6 Provinces in Melizea and control of each gives 1 Stability Rating. There is also 1 point for having a Functional Government. This means the game starts at 7 Stability.
    • Personal Objective: When the game starts, a list of X Hidden Objectives + 1 (X being the number of players) will be dealt down in order of: President, Security Minister, Defense Minister, Foreign Minister, Generals, Admirals that each player can select. This is their own personal objective to achieve during the game.
    • If the Melizean Objective is accomplished but not their Personal Objective, they still lose.

Z | Spoiler Alert

This is not simply a faction based NRP on a military junta / banana republic. This is also a NRP in a world about to undergo a zombie apocalypse. That means that the players incentives in the first third of the game will radically change after the dead start rising up and they may forced to work together a bit more than they traditionally anticipated.

---

---

Character Creation
[b]Full Name[/b]:
[b]Age[/b]:
[b]Brief Description & Background[/b]:
[b]Military or Civilian Background[/b]: [Hidden Modifier Attached]

[DX3214]

Well move the sheet to here then also I love how everyone entered fully into character into this...

Marcela Linhares Lópes

Full Name: Marcela Linhares Lópes
Age:31
Brief Description & Background: Marcela Linhares Lópes Was born originally to a rich family in the country of Meliziea, after a series of unfortunate incidents her family had fallen off grace and after reaching her 18 she joined the army seeking to regain her family's fame trough the military mainly embarking into officers school but she also had a passion for geopolitics and economics something she prefers even writing a book about geopolitics and how it affected Melizea.

Marcela gained to an extent recognition and reputation after becoming an officer and rising through the ranks after the war in the countryside reached a worse period using charms and tactics she was one of the ablest officers in the ground at the end of the war she embroiled in politics utilizing her family name to gain power in the nation believing that in politics she would gain more power.
Military or Civilian Background: Military

[LordZell]

Will we learn what alignment means? Also here's the discord. discord.gg/Znd9NgK

[Mr Irony II]

Alonso Terjedor

Full Name: Alonso Terjedor

Age: 42

Brief Description & Background: Alonso is what you'd expect to see a politician's son. A smooth looking fit man, his hair slicked back with a cleanly shaven goatee to distinguish the look. Like his father before him, he lobbies for the oil companies. The extensive family estate was bought and built by black gold. His father believed a new kind of man was needed to help their poor beloved country. Alonso was sent abroad for his education.

Upon his return home, he quickly entered the political arena. Marrying one of the runners up in the Miss Meliza pageant to garner public support.

He harbors no love for the military. In truth he despises them for totalitarian ways. This is because his sister had been disposed of by an unknown officer. Leading to him organizing a massive protest against the corrupt military that had in his eyes poisoned his beloved home. Seeing their kind as bandits and nothing more.

Alonso does want his country to fare better but he is also greedy. Oil runs in his veins and often does what the oil executives want but he does see himself as a man of the people. Vowing to bring the country back from poverty and war.

Military or Civilian Background: Civilian

[Theodorable]

Tomorrow at 4 PM we'll get started.

[Shovel]

@Theodorable Here is my application. Let me know if I need to change anything. Thank you.

Hernandez Ortis

Full Name: Hernandez Ortis
Age: 49
Brief Description & Background:

Nobody knows who Hernandez Ortis was, where he came from, who was he before becoming one of the political forefronts, all they knew was that he was one of the foreign investors who took an interest in Melizea when the first pocket of oil was found. And while everyone was huddling for gold, Hernandez took an interest in developing infrastructure. While everyone is busying constructing oil drill, Hernandez was busying decorating the coast and securing favor from various factions. And when everything settles down, like it always was, Hernandez had already possessed numerous plots of land along the coasts.

And from here, resorts are built to serve the riches. Miles-long beaches and coasts reserved only for hotel guests. Golf courses and pastures. Horse racing and canoeing. Suddenly, Hernandez became the king of mortgages, services and entertainment sections of this decadent nation. And like most people with power and an economy to back it such power, he became a politician. And to be honest, he represents the darker side of the capitalistic way. He made it harder for small companies to be created while making those that are already in charge as the only supplier. There are monopolies in food, in export and import, in building ships and making torpedoes... All of these can't be done without him and the greed of the ruler.

This nation belongs to the rich. Everything in this nation belongs to the rich. And Hernandez is here to make sure that the foreign investment will forever overshadow this newborn's country capability.

Military or Civilian Background: Civilian [Hidden Modifier Attached]

[LordZell]

@ShovelYou should join us on discord.

[krismer22]

Isabella Cortez, Troublemaker - <br>La Viuda Negra - Face of Freedom

Full Name: Isabella Cortez

Age:30

Brief Description & Background: There is a sucker born every minute.

That's what Isabella's father Carlos always told her before he was taken by the army and killed for dealing drugs in the favelas of São Carmados. Isabella and her mother grew up pour without their father, and had accumulated his debt owed to the Melizean Cartel which peddled straight pure white cocaine amongst other commodities. At a early age she had to work in the sex trade to start paying off her debts that her father left her, why was he so careless?

She continued to be a slave to the sex trade into her early adulthood, one day something changed in her. Her submissiveness subsided and a rage to escape her captivity. She killed the John she was with and when we her Pimp came she shot him five times in the chest, she freed the other girls stuck in the crack house they were living in. Only some could escape, the rest were too addicted to drugs to make any effort.

Over the course of several months she started a rebel cell dedicated to taking out the cartel in her district, recruiting from former sex-workers and those disgruntled with the Cartel. On the eve of an annual cartel celebration "The Harvest's Feast" her group attacked cartel boss Juan Demelo at his estate where they captured him and burned him at a stake before razing his estate to the ground. Word of the attack spread of freedom fighters, fighting the state itself? When in reality it was just a girl getting revenge, Isabella took over Demelo's operations in the area. She was a face of hope and freedom to those oppressed in Melizea, but in reality she was just a drug-queen taking her rightful place on the throne.

Military or Civilian Background: Civilian.

Why did no one tell me Theo was back >:/!

[DX3214]

Okay so I made the calculations and checked the things we have militaristic people, cartel subordinates, reformers, foreigners, rich motherfuckers and now resistance cells... well I am smoking to see what happens because I am the guy who likes to see how the shebang goes.

[DeadDrop]

Lore.

[LordZell]

@krismer22 Ah well welcome and come to the discord to plot, you rebel scum.

[Murtox]

Full Name: Rodrigo Alvarado Velasquez Quesquen
Age: 37
Brief Description & Background: He comes from a long lineage of military officers and such personalities. His grandfather was even dictator of the country for an about or month so until, he ceded power to another general as to not get stabbed in the back. His whole life was a sort of preparation to become a military official, climb through the ranks, get a nice secure position in society and allow for the next generation to repeat the same cycle. After all, the Velasquez. Of course, there were also some radicals within the family. Those who are labeled as undesirables and who don't respect the status quo. There is always one in each generation, a "revolutionary or progressive" by any other name.

Velasquez is one such Blacksheep and surprisingly enough, he is a left-leaning centrist general. One who believes that the country of Melizea requires extensive change, a revolution if one may say it out loud. A revolution that is bound to fix all the problems of the country and that it must be achieved through the strong hand of the military. After all, he believes deeply in the following motto about the army. "Any man could advance through the ranks due to merit being completely equal to those sharing his rank, obedient to those above him, and leader to those below him. The army was a school of patriotism and the officer corps a vanguard of civilizing agents"

Only time will tell if these deep thoughts will simply remain within him or if he will lead that change that the country needs in order to end corruption, poverty and social inequality.

Military or Civilian Background: Military [Hidden Modifier Attached]

[LordZell]

@Murtox@krismer22Come plot in the discord please. discord.gg/Znd9NgK

[krismer22]

No thank you.

[CleanBreeze]

Ferdinand Gasol

Full Name:
Ferdinand Gasol

Age: 28
Brief Description & Background:
Ferdinand is a Melizean man of Mestizo background. His father was a commercial airline pilot of Spanish descent and his mother was a nurse of African descent. He spent his formative years with his doting mother while he rarely ever got to see his father. Nevertheless they all lived in comparative comfort as airline pilots are well paid. It was only in his teens when Ferdinand started to show the first indications of pride for his country.
He first joined the Melizea Army and worked his way up to Captain. For the next 5 years he gained veterancy eventually becoming one of the countries “Jaguar Commandos”, elite Commandos capable of using many types of terrain. His regular duties included ferrying diplomats and politicians all over Melizea, eventually gaining a few friends in high places.
It was during that time Ferdinand saw the most career advancement due to his extraordinary sense of duty and that he kept good relationships with everyone. He was known for his skill for diplomacy and multicultural and multidisciplinary approach.

Military or Civilian Background: Military [Hidden Modifier Attached]

[Theodorable]

Ferdinand Gasol

Full Name:
Ferdinand Gasol

Age: 28
Brief Description & Background:
Ferdinand is a Melizean man of Mestizo background. His father was a commercial airline pilot of Spanish descent and his mother was a nurse of African descent. He spent his formative years with his doting mother while he rarely ever got to see his father. Nevertheless they all lived in comparative comfort as airline pilots are well paid. It was only in his teens when Ferdinand started to show the first indications of pride for his country.
He first joined the Melizea Army and worked his way up to Captain. For the next 5 years he gained veterancy eventually becoming one of the countries “Jaguar Commandos”, elite Commandos capable of using many types of terrain. His regular duties included ferrying diplomats and politicians all over Melizea, eventually gaining a few friends in high places.
It was during that time Ferdinand saw the most career advancement due to his extraordinary sense of duty and that he kept good relationships with everyone. He was known for his skill for diplomacy and multicultural and multidisciplinary approach.

Military or Civilian Background: Military [Hidden Modifier Attached]

@CleanBreeze

Accepted. Please vote. Tomorrow the results will be announced.

[krismer22]

@Theodorable I know you probably have this all planned but can we see a map of Melizea and its provinces please theo?

[Theodorable]

@Theodorable I knoe you probably have this all planned but can we see a map of Melizea and its provinces please theo?

@krismer22

Yeah, it should be done before the Budget and Appointments are finished. I'm sure there will be lively discussion about both in IC and OOC.

[krismer22]

So I'm guessing Isabella has amnesty for all the bad things she's done and she can come to the captial...?

[DX3214]

So I'm guessing Isabella has amnesty for all the bad things she's done and she can come to the captial...?

@krismer22

That is a part I am still So confused and laughing right now well shit