[CHAR] A new dawn [NRP Science-Fiction]

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Name: The United Colonies of Luna (UCL)
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Population: Around 4 million (Hard to bring and keep people on the moon)
History :
About 3 months before the fate of Humanity had been discovered, NASA had started work on safe and efficient ways to bring Humans and infrastructure to the moon, which was also the USA playing catch-up with China's Project Omicron. 'Project Luna' was the name scientists had dubbed it. Eventually the had worked out the safe part, but it was terribly inefficient. They had sent up about 200 people along with basic industrial modules when the US government shut down Project Luna. It had cost too much and frankly been a waste of money, and they saw no profit in using the unoccupied, abundant land to get a boost in US production. Yes, if it went through there could be many, many factories on the moon that could ship massive amounts of goods back, but the initial fee was just too high.

Then, suddenly, Humanity knew it would die. It knew their entire system would die, from forces beyond their control, and even beyond their knowledge mostly. A group of people that raided NASA headquarters found the cancelled Project Luna. The 200 residents of the moon were still up there, having enough modules and water that they could sustain themselves. The group decided to restart the project, outside of government control. They created a worldwide website to advertise their cause: There's open land on the moon not owned by any oppressive government, where you can go live and research a way to save humanity! They were known as Luna Corp. and people from all over the world, mostly renowned scientists, came to settle a large colony and the moon where they could conduct research away from governments and distractions (Like riots and wars). State-Of-The-Art machinery and labs were also shipped up, along with the necessities- Gardens (Very few of them, sometimes have food shortages), and ports where water is shipped in weekly from Earth (It is shipped from a large 'floating city' that sails the oceans on an undisclosed path that no one knows.).

Soon there were a million people on the moon. They formed a highly intellectual society on the moon and called it Luna. Once Luna Corp had built their floating city there was a stable supply coming into Luna. Water shipped in weekly, people and modules sent in monthly. On Luna Corp's floating city (strangely name since it was hardly a city- no one lived there except Luna Corp officials) was: A launch pad, where rockets were launched; A runway, where Luna Corp could fly out to get colonists and supplies; And a big hose that sucked up water from the oceans and then purified the salt water(The oceans aren't going to be here in a couple generations, so why not take advantage?).

While there was little to no crime on Luna, it was soon obvious there needed to be a government of some sort to sort out arguments and generally keep the place in order. A few individuals formed a group called the United Colonies of Luna, which filled the power vacuum. Although the UCL was accepted by all colonies on Luna, it was a generally weak government for various reasons: 1. The colonists came to Luna to escape oppression and limits to their research, even the ones who formed the UCL. 2. Many people wondered, 'Why them? Who gave them permission to settle our disputes?' 3. The general population was afraid of the government because it was funded by the Luna Corp and they feared if they rebelled against the UCL they would lose their water.

Today, Luna has become a more or less thriving research and industrial port, while lacking the ability to make their own water. Their food problem was actually fine the the populous, because they wanted new tools and gadgets and could last a few days or a week with only a few meals if it meant new modules faster. Other than their dependency on Luna Corp for food and water, the UCL is very independent. Along with research to save humanity, they have started a side project on building ships that would take 5 year journeys to get ice from the rings of Saturn and return, making them self-sustained, because now they could even make their own modules from Luna(Although it takes longer and is less efficient than receiving modules from Luna Corp).
Geographical location: The Moon
Current governmental stability: Unstable
Resources : Established Industrial Infrastructure, Poor Farmland, Advanced Technological Industry, Bureaucratic Instability (<-- I hope that there's a typo for this, you said increase construction time instead of decrease)
Treasury (Max 120 billion of whatever currency you use.):About 60 Billion Luna Credits

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Omicron

Name: The Republic of Omicron

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Population: 80 Million

History:
The race to space is now one of sheer desperation but was once viewed only to further the goals of Humanity. In the early late 20th and early 21st century, the People's Republic of China courted several African nations for their rich resources. The growing dragon of the east needed a vast quantity of iron, oil and a myriad of other capital to continue forwards. The middle east and south America were ideal partners but Africa was their favored playing ground. Angola was one country in the continent that China favored the most. Rich in oil, gas, diamonds and agricultural land, Angola was a target of Chinese intervention. China made a number of extensive investments towards the struggling country. In return, China grew from the massive exports of natural resources. Both countries flourished from their trade agreement.

However China's involvement in Angola was not purely economical. In the 2030's, China started to bolster its space program. A government owned company, Aviation Industry Corporation of China, took over the China National Space Administration. The company was also renamed into the Chang'e Corporation. Chang'e corp then went on to create the Chinese National Space Station, more popularly known as the "Yutu". China's space dominance seemed inevitable. In May 16, 2053, China commissioned the start of Project Omicron. Originally stationed in the Harbin Institute of Technology, Project Omicron was established to discover ways on how to mine resources from heavenly bodies. Omicron was given substantial funding to carry out its research. Omicron embarked on a monumental task. To hide the true nature of the project from foreign powers, Project Omicron was labeled as communications research.

In February 8 2070, the Chinese New Year, the fruits of Omicron were shown to the world. 17 years prior, Chang'e corp relocated the Omicron team to Angola to proceed with their research there. Angolan authorities agreed to cooperate with the Chinese in exchange for weapons trading. The Chinese began to set up a launch pad near the capital city of Luanda. Titanic amounts of resources were sent to the site. Within a year, the site was prepared. Another 6 years and a working prototype was announced. Two more years were needed to perfect their machine. On February 8, 2063, the Tian Si was launched towards the asteroid belt. In seven years time, China announced to the world that it had successfully brought back materials from the asteroid belt. The international scientific society begged the Chinese officials to allow them to study the materials. Precious rocks, rare minerals, gas and liquid material. However China didn't allow them, only allowing state scientist to examine the samples. The international body was enraged however there was nothing much they could do. China had shown the world its capability. It had sent an unmanned drone to the reaches of space to collect materials never before collected. However the operation itself has cost the Chinese more than they gained. The next step was to make the collection of materials profitable. China was still a growing economy and the resources on Earth were rapidly dwindling.

However conflict had arrived before further developments could be done. First, a strong rebellion force from Angola's northern provinces forced the PRC to deploy to pacify the situation. Then a new radical government of Congo waged war on Angola. China's growth was further hampered by its foreign interventions. Then China began to wage a war of its own against its neighbors. The eastern dragon was constantly getting bogged down in more and more problems. Omicron was forced to take over more and more aspects of Chinese affairs in Angola simply because the Chinese could not focus on its external projects. First Omicron became fully autonomous so long as it kept within a budget allocated by Chang'e corp. Then it was forced to recruit its own protection force. Omicron became more and more powerful with each passing moment however they focused on their original goal of research. The PRC sent a official party overseerer to supervise the project and make sure that the research would not be sold into the wrong hands.

This would change however when the United States went into armed conflict with China. The reasons are obscure and lost to time, however the effects were devastating. Omicron would be caught in the crossfire when America decided to aid the Congo in a renewed offensive against their southern neighbors. The PRC had a considerable presence in the area to funnel resources back to the Chinese war machine. The PLA kept its ground as attacks and counter attacks were drawn out. Key locations were being attacked by American bombers. Such locations were the Omicron Launch site and research stations. Omicron, with its increasing autonomy, began to subvert troops from the front line to defend its vital operations. The Omicron teams were more and more frantic to salvage anything from their years of work and development. Their hops were crushed when the Americans dropped an EMP bomb on the research headquarters. It was shocking to think that a weapon from the past would cost as much damage as it had. A majority of the information gathered on the site were destroyed. Communications with Beijing were cut off. The chain of command was broken in that instant.

With that, the remaining Chinese forces in Angola had two options. They could have either surrendered or they would assume control themselves. With the Angolan government in ruins, a high ranking PLA general strong armed the fracturing Angolan Armed Forces to push back. In the meantime the only people with the resources and manpower to rebuild the nation stepped forwards to repair the damage done. Omicron went from a research and development team into a transitional government. Funding from the project temporarily went into the war effort and later into reconstructing infrastructure. Leading scientist were forced to redirect their focus from scientific pursuits to local management. Omicron security was quickly refurbished to become a civil peacekeeping unit. The quasi-police force were deployed all throughout the country. However civil unrest still continues. A Chinese upper class with no knowledge about the nation now governed it. This was further compounded by the fact that recent observations of sun showed it was quickly dying and that the Human race was nearing extinction. Now Omicron's mission has turned from resource extraction to Human preservation. With time a precious commodity, its research facilities and launch site has to be repaired as soon as possible. However the ongoing struggles of the common Angolan people are strangling their success. This strange, new government must find a way to balance the needs of the masses and the race to save Humanity.

Geographical location: Former Republic of Angola

Current governmental stability: Extremely Unstable

Resources:
Damaged Industrial Infrastructure
Devastated Technological infrastructure
Bureaucratic Instability
Polluted Land

Treasury:
5 Billion Omicron Cards - Very poor GDP

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Name: Gaiafirma
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Population: Roughly 20 million
History:

At one point in time, you might have called them hippies, liberals, tree-huggers. That was what they were. For the most part, people ignored them. Sometimes they rammed whaling ships, sometimes they blocked trucks, other times they marched and yelled... but they were ignored. They were just fools, people from a bygone era. For the most part, these were peaceful people... that is, until the Earth began to die. Then things really kicked off and turned crazy.

The peaceful protests grew louder and louder. Some stayed peaceful, but as the conditions grew worse, some grew violent. They began to bomb fuel tankers, set fire to power plants, and slash the tires of gasoline trucks. A small group of these environmentalists and humanists, calling themselves the Gaian Defense Force, started calling for independence from what they saw as "a blind government suckling from the teat of the industry". Again, they were mostly ignored, save for a few SWAT raids and newspaper headlines. They were just some stupid cult.

Finally, the GDF's chance came when the US government began to fall. A small group of cultists stormed a museum warship in Baton Rouge, and seized her, along with many rounds of ammunition. With around sixty of this rag-tag army, armed with hunting rifles and handguns, they set out for the Caribbean. When they landed on the shores of Cuba, they found a country that had been wiped from the map. Category Five hurricanes, spawned out of the poisoned, stinking air, had razed most of the country and led to the total collapse of all government operations. The few remaining survivors either fled or went along with the GDF's cult-like ideals, simply to be fed and sheltered.

After a few weeks, more stolen ships came in, with more GDF recruits. People began to believe in the GDF, crazy and radical as they were. Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic... all were usurped by the GDF. The GDF turned these lands int Gaiafirma, a theocracy, run by the religion which worships Mother Nature and the idea of a connected ecosystem, with humans as a central part with huge responsibilities. High Chief Kirman was established as the supreme ruler of the land, and soon he called for a new plan. He turned his country's attention to the stars, and called for action. He called for a new home, a new Womb, where mankind could be born again from Mother Nature's belly and start afresh without the corruption that had poisoned "the Crib".

Needless to say, Gaiafirma is a theocracy gripped by cultist fervor, and it is unlikely that they will let anyone get in the way. Many radical scientists and other intellectuals came over with the simple environmentalists, and have given Gaiafirma a head start in scientific understanding. As well, some of the ships hijacked were research vessels, so Gaiafirma can conduct research despite it's badly damaged architecture. However, the rain and wind from all of the hurricanes has left the topsoil eroded and mostly unable to bear plant life. Gaiafirma can grow crops on the decks of supertankers and bulk carriers, but, needless to say, this is not ideal. On top of that, whatever industrial architecture that existed has been blown away or is without power.

For the most part, the High Chiefs, Rootgrowers, and Seedsowers have instilled enough fervor in the assimilated and imported populace. Some resistance still exists, however. This is being quashed, but it is taking time and money to do so.

Geographical location: Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico
Current governmental stability : Unstable
Resources :
Established Technological infrastructure
Devastated industrial infrastructure
Poor Farmland
Clean Land
Treasury: 80 million Gaian Dollars

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Glorious Russian-based successor state; Go!

Krosniyque The Beautiful

With a population of 500 million, Glorious Krosniyque is easily the largest of the nations in terms of population, and is definitely up there in terms of just plain surface area.

Krosniyque was formed after a second, more violent revolution in what used to be Russia. In 2056, the government was overthrown by a group of terrorists known as "A Borderless Globe", which was formed out of Russia's own military, being highly angered and frustrated, as they percieved the politicians and other leaders of their nation to be 'spineless whelps obsessed with borders, and the weight of their own pockets'. After two years of severely heavy fighting, the rebellion won, and Russia was turned into an even more militaristic state. Eventually, this too died, yet quietly; all that remains is its' husk, the nation of Krosniyque.

Krosniyque was born just a few decades ago in 2085 after the previous government peacefully dissolved (in comparison). As humanity learned that it would die very soon without action, Krosniyque's current leader, Anton Myasnikov, decided he would be the one to pave the way for his nations' future. Krosniyques' vast population, industrial capacity, and (sadly lacking, for now) research output has been put to solving this issue. Krosniyques' plan is to first affirm its' own dominance; through subterfuge, brute force, or intimidation, Krosniyque will not focus on being the first to win this new space race: it will focus on making sure the others lose.

To assist in this endeavor, being forged from the remnants of a highly militarized state, Krosniyque will not have to worry about being attacked. After all, Russia is hard enough to attack with its' difficult climate, which helps the grand 'Web of Russia' left behind by previous ages that has stood tall the entire time. This great defense network, made from Cruise missile facilities, artillery cannons, short-range drone control centers, and a few nukes hidden deep underground assures that Krosniyque will be able to handle any attempt at conquering it.

Of course... The Web is degenerating at a steady pace. As much money, resources, and just plain knowledge was lost over the years, spare parts, ammunition, and technical know-how for all of these emplacements is simply lacking. The Defense Web is a husk of its' former self. It should simply stop working in its' entirety a few years down the line, but Krosniyque will likely (Read: hopefully) be able to stand on its' own at that time.

Aside from vast population, just plain surface area, and its' mighty defensive network, Krosniyque has little up its' sleeve. Indeed, even the defensive network is only able to be used to that capacity, as nearly all of its' weapon systems are suited for extreme, localized power; not range. While they severely out range most mobile armaments, they still aren't far-reaching enough to hit any other of the nations.

Krosniyque, obviously, is based in what used to be Russia. Their government is stable. They have;
Established Industrial Infrastructure
Rich farmland
Solid Production Industry

And 40 Billion Krosniyque Trading Units