The Imperium of Panama
System: Quasi-Fascist Imperial Meritocratic Junta
Capital: Panama City
Economy: Mixed War Market
Currency: Imperial Credit
Military: divided into colours. Land armies are red, the navy is blue, the air force is yellow, logistics & communications are green, special operations are orange and the imperial guard is purple. The military is vital the quasi fascist society of the Imperium. The law is set in martial style to full on eye for an eye, while military training ranges from basic considerations to harsh tests of power. Power is what motivates the Imperium and what it values above all. The strong is what motivates the Imperium, taking their stance in the world to stand high. However the Imperium also believes in rewarding merit, seeing the truly strong as those who rise through trial as oppose to privilege.
Leadership Title: Imperator
Origin: the arrival of XENOS sparked a will to power in those who felt humanity was too divided to stand up to XENOS and had soften. Hence in Panama the particle remaining elements of the previous government was coupe and forged by the still standing military under Marshal Cecilo Perez. What began as a simple junta to maintain order was itself replaced through force by a ideological military element, known as "Santiagonism" for its founder Dídac Santiago decided to practice a form of fascism that emphasis greater the union but set human as friend and the alien forces as the enemy in Schmitt's "friend-enemy" distinction. "Humanity must unite or burn" wen Santiago. "Better to die standing then to continue to live as a slave of the xeno." He had regarded liberalism as a path to "national-suicide" He had previously published “Holy Imperium Determination: a True Dolvusist Reflection on Hispanic Imperialism and Desires to Relive the Conquistadors’ Virtues” which had the first half of the book basically a retelling of the history of Hispania, a white-washed tale of the Conquistadors and of the Latin American states… each, with Panama reserved for last but most definitely not least in those histories. The next quarter is basically stating that the “Hispanic Empire must be reunited, bought under the justice of the Light so that the Lord may reward the Hispanic peoples their glories and ensure a nation that could proclaim itself Heaven-on-Earth.”
Santiago wrote and publish "the Hispanic Caesar" in the first year as ruler of Panama. Here he spoke of the importance of assimilation and how "uniting by assimilation may break the curse of Babal by allowing humanity to be one." The nation, he wrote, was beyond blood but of souls that must be "saved by the unity of us all." As this was written in the mist of guerrilla resistance against his rule it also saw how “sometimes to save a nation you have to bleed it.” In the end he ruled for 6 years of industrial development to build up the arms of the Imperium; he would die in a "accident" as it appeared. His successor would be Cornell Jordana Vargas who took up the "burden of leadership" as she would put it.
Imperator Jordana Vargas developed a route of Santiagonism nicknamed Vargas Santiagonism or Vargasism. She places more emphasis on the metrocratic and on not only the glories of the Hispanic Civilization but on assimilation of lands beyond to the Imperium’s culture. She first wants to do her predecessor’s aim of uniting the whole of Central America, then she will strive to see the Imperium become the successor to the Roman, Spanish and Portuguese empires. Opposition within the Council of War with Artur Ubina, the Grand Mayor of Panama City, who has proclaimed his own form of Santiagonism (Ubinaism or Ubi Santigaonism) which focused on more small scale expansion with emphasis on “growing taller than the weeds” without the excessive Cult of Tradition, replace by a “ever renewing of the nation as a snake throws its old skin away to become reborn over and over again.” Still Jordana stands for the sake of seeing the Imperium expand and its ideology to spread out.
