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@Belgarion95: welcome to NESing :) If I'm not mistaken, you'll have to post several times and wait several days after registering a username before sending private messages, which are the expected method of sending orders. You've been recognized as chancellor of Sweden.

@everyone: the deadline for orders will now be set for June 16th, Monday morning 10 AM pacific time. Each turn is a year.
 
Tanzania reporting in
 
Turkey signing in.
 
Hey I'm just wondering whether (as Australia) I will have military grades before the first update?
Also will we know roughly how large our countries are in population or is that mostly irrelevant?
 
Technocracy in the 23rd Century
Principles of Technocracy

A hundred and fifty years after the formation of the first technocratic state in Bavaria, Technocracy has come to claim a key role in the largest and wealthiest states of the European continent. Technocrats in government have succeeded over the past century in transforming state institutions from neo-feudal regimes and corporate dynasties into meritocratic republics, and rebuilding industrial and technical infrastructure that has come to support the largest and most innovative scientific establishment in the world.

The roots of the spread of the technocratic system come with a series of agreements in the early 22nd century signed between Bavaria and its neighbors in England, Hungary, and the Lombard League. These agreements established a space for academic institutions, operating without the legal or political controls of the secular governments, to flourish in its neighbors. The re-establishment of the university-states in Oxford and Cambridge, the strengthening of the powers of the University of Milan and the University of Genoa, and the quiet success of the rural tudás közössége in Hungary have provided their secular partners with the scientific knowledge and technical expertise to enact a transition into a modern state. However, outside the Technocratic Ecumene counter-modernist forces remain opposed to the Bavarian Model, though they lack the strength to disrupt it.

In the Lombard League, the newly established universities were handicapped by political controls maintained by the fascist government during the early years, causing a significant brain drain through the university-system to Bavaria, where Lombard scientists would be able to conduct scientific research, especially in political and economic fields, without the fear of re-education. However, the strong support of Lombard governments for the technical aspect of the universities saw their continued growth, and Lombard scientific dissidents in Bavaria continued to maintain strong ties with their colleagues south of the Alps. The gradual dissolution of the fascist-corporate structure, due to the military failures of the late 22nd century, saw increasing influence of the university-states, and the return of many Lombard emigres to their home nation to take up positions as executives within the Lombard government began the transition from a corporate state to a technocratic one. While substantial work needs to be done, as the accumulation of wealth and political privilege in the hands of a small segment of society still does not provide an equal meritocratic playing field, the elevation of academics over the corporate executives, and the increasing entry of corporate dynasts into academic life, signals the beginning of a scientific revolution.

In England, greater political freedom and the survival of many academic institutions independent of the Bavarian Model provided a much stronger educational base to work with in re-establishing strong university-states. However, the focus of English universities remained the soft sciences, chiefly areas of commerce and economics. English academics were often closely tied to business interests, and many English universities remained for-profit, with substantial tuition limiting access to the entire population. The close political-corporate ties to mercantile interests have also prevented empirical criticism of the government from being socially acceptable, and despite its promising beginnings, the inherited inefficiencies in the culture of English technocracy has prevented it from providing England with the unprecedented success possible.

In Hungary, the rural economy and leftist government made direct adaptation of the Bavarian Model impractical. However, instead of centralized institutions of academic learning, the socialist federation saw the establishment of smaller trade schools throughout the population, providing rural farmers and workers with technical training directly applicable to their daily lives and easily approved by the leftist governments. Hungary’s larger universities continued to be overshadowed by those in Bavaria, and have yet to carve out substantial state influence for themselves due to their grassroots nature making the precise application of influence difficult.

In Bavaria, the suddeutscherbund, Technocracy is at the height of its power. The close relationship between the university-states and the bund-stats has created the most efficient and educated government in the world, and one which has continued to broaden the academic franchise to the population while providing incredible boosts to productivity and economic activity through careful and well-planned development of human and physical capital, making Bavaria the workshop of the world. The prevalence of higher education has also gradually given way to widening of participation in the political process: indirect elections for government officials involve 30% of the population, giving the so-called “Technocratic Dictatorship” of the Bund a larger proportion of the population involved in the political process than most democratic states. Bavaria is also the center of the technocratic ecumene, with scientists and researchers from across Europe coming to contribute to the Bavarian scientific base and students from across the world studying in the great university-states, the largest of which, the Technical University of Munich, has a student and faculty body of eight million.

Sweden, the world’s second oldest technocracy, has yet to see the same expansion of higher education, chiefly due to significant educational gaps between the Swedish-speaking population and its Baltic dependencies and ongoing military commitments that prevent the same level of state funding being applied.

The Bavarian Model, pioneered a century and a half ago with the formation of the Bavarian Free State, continues to inspire a continent through example. Without active evangelization, technocratic movements in Turkey, Russia, Czechia, Berlin, and France continue to push for stronger state support of education and increased meritocracy in government, challenging counter-modernist forces. Technocracy, alone of all the options present for Europe, provides unprecedented possibilities for unity, prosperity, and peace than any of its competitors, and it stands poised to make that same promise to the entire world.

The 23rd Century will be a Technocratic Century.

-Bundeskanzler DDr. Josef von Dunkelheit
 
Technocracy as spewed forth by the effete Bavarians is weak and doomed to perish. Their idea of a higher calling is a computer!

If Africa is where humanity began, it is also where humanity must return.
 
Email your arguments to an accredited scientific journal when you have wi-fi, then we'll consider its merits.
 
Russia is here.
 
@Amsjay: in general, populations are one third their original size, so Australia's population would be about 8 million people (it's not particularly mechanics-wise relevant). Australia will not start out with military grades above zero.
 
Latepost, but the FER is checking in.
 
Must... resist... urge... to join... as Catalonia.
 
This looks fun. I'll give Cascadia a try.
 
@ TLK: you've got it.

@ JoanK: don't resist, join! :)

@ everyone: get those orders in over the weekend, Monday morning will be here in four days.
 
@ Cadellon: sure thing, welcome to NESing, if you have any questions please feel free to ask them by PM or in-thread.
 
I might get orders in late. I have a lot of stuff to do since next week is finals.
 
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