Imperium OffTopicum XIV

[NedimNapoleon]

OOC: I did not invade a nation. I invaded the United Nations.

 

[Mathalamus]

OOC: I did not invade a nation. I invaded the United Nations.

hereby pissing off the UAR, and the Roman Empire, among others.

 

[WhiteRobber]

And the Gangnam Republic. But the Gangnam Republic is just waiting.

 

[Reus]

NATIONAL TELEVISION OF INDONESIA
"Bringing to Indonesia - The World."


The President announces Indonesia’s wartime policy​

Following the last week’s declaration of neutrality by the President, this evening the President has made a televised speech that elaborates Indonesia’s outlook on the war in detail. Her speech includes Indonesia’s trade policy towards belligerent nations and also several security measures that is undertaken in order for Indonesia to be prepared against a worst case scenario in which Indonesia is forced to enter the conflict.

Her speech is then published by the President’s Secretary as orderly points in many Indonesian governmental websites. The following was taken from the official website of the Presidency of Indonesia:

THE DECLERATION REGARDING INDONESIA’S POSITION TOWARDS THE ONGOING WAR

The Indonesian government hereby declares its formal position in the ongoing war between the United Nations and the Empire of Japan. The following points shall emphasize Indonesia’s economic, political, diplomatic, and military policies or actions towards belligerent nations.

ONE
Indonesia declares that it shall be militarily neutral, and it shall not partake in any military related operations that would include the nation in the conflict.

TWO
Indonesia shall prohibit any military vessels of the United Nations forces to operate in Indonesia, this includes naval vessels, which is prohibited to operate within the doubled range of Indonesia’s territorial waters (24 nautical miles). The same also goes for Japanese or Vietnamese military vessels.

THREE
Indonesia shall take necessary security actions such as the patrolling of Indonesia’s Exclusive Economic Zone and military alertness is increased in order to prepare against the possibility of any foreign attack. In a worst case scenario of war, a draft shall be instituted.

FOUR
Indonesia acknowledges that poor actions that has been taken by the Japanese government is one of the leading cause of the conflict. Therefore Indonesia officially condemns Japanese actions and appeals the Japanese government to revert their actions in Vietnam and China in order for peace to return.

FIVE
Based on the previous point, Indonesia shall institute a limited embargo against Japan. The embargo shall prohibit Indonesian exports of any raw material and minerals that may aid the Japanese war-effort. Thereby, Indonesia requests that both sides do not engage Indonesian remaining trade vessels that will continue to operate and conduct economic activity with both sides.

SIX
Indonesia shall be willing to become a mediator in case that the belligerent nations wishes to lay down arms and enter peace negotiations.

This decree immediately takes effect as of Today.
​

Spoiler :

"The Indonesian Navy is being mobilized to patrol the seas. Air-surveillance drones are also active around Indonesian waters to prepare against unwanted foreign attack."

Indonesia and Austria will jointly cooperate in the Industrial and Arms Manufacturing sector.​

Saturday, Indonesia and Austria reached an agreement to mutually cooperate in developing their respective national Industry and also the Arms Manufacturing sector. The agreement is made shortly after Austria announces their intention to develop their national industry and arms manufacturing capability. Seeing that both
Indonesia and Austria shares a similar goal, both nations then decided to pursuit their intentions together, in order for both nations to be able to compete against the civil and military industries of other nations.

Indonesian Foreign Minister, Mrs.Svetta remarked:

Svetta: "This historical agreement between Indonesia and Austria is made in order to pursuit both nation's similar goal to be leading nations in arms manufacturing and civil industry and to also create a bond between the two nation, so that the two can help each other grow faster while also ensuring that the industrial and arms development between the two remains mutual and cooperative and an unwanted arms race is prevented."

Currently, both Indonesia and Austria are rising powers in their respective regions. Austrian control of a huge part of Europe and Indonesian success in securing their position in their resourceful region provides numerous potential for both to be a leading world power. To further consolidate their growth, both nations launches its own industrial development programs and with most of the world embroiled into an expanded Vietnam War, neutral nations such as Indonesia and Austria gains a beneficial momentum to economically expand as other warring nations are forced to pour their resources into military developments.

For Indonesia, the miraculous growth last season have pushed them from a backwater nation into one of world's fastest growing economies and with many more industrial projects still in schedule, combined with this recent economic agreement and many more to come; economic planners and speculators hoped that a stable constant growth continues, and Indonesia will overtake both Gibraltar and the Volgan Federation as World's biggest economy.

While both Indonesian and Austrian industries are eager to start their new friendship and cooperation, they must still wait until the next season, as the Austrian government decides to put their part of their agreement into effect together with the series of national reformation they have in plan.

Spoiler :

"Arms Manufacturing corporations from Austria and Indonesia are partnered with its foreign counterpart as a part of the agreement, for example the Austrian Heckler&Koch GmbH (shown here) will be partnered with the state-owned PT.PINDAD of Indonesia"

Economic Boom positive for most people, but environmentalists are concerned​

When people are strolling through the streets of any Indonesian city from Jakarta to Denpasar, they will notice numerous new high-rise residential apartments are appearing every day; and even more so, the streets themselves are new and well-constructed, complete with standard street-lights and flora decorations all-around the sidewalk. Some will say this is a great sign of progress in Indonesia, and most will agree. But more recently, environmental experts and advocates have expressed their concerns that the developments being conducted by the Indonesian government could potentially damage the environment if it is not taken into account.

Currently, the first stages of residential and light industrial constructions are nearing completion, and there has been no pressing environmental consequences caused whatsoever by this developments. But experts think that environmental problems would appear as soon as the residential buildings are filled up and the industries began to operate. Officials at the KNPP have received letters from environmentalists expressing their point of view, and have publically responded. The KNPP stated that the concerns by the environmentalists are valid, and their notice of the project’s progress and effects towards the environment is appreciated. The KNPP reassures the environmentalists stating that environmental causes of these massive projects is already taken into account during the planning stage of the project.

The KNPP answers many of the points written in by the environmentalist regarding parts of the projects that may potentially be damaging towards the environment. Some important examples of the concerns stated by the environmentalists includes how would the government operate and manage the new industries, including their potential pollution output and waste; they also asked how would the government handle the resource requirements and waste output that will be caused by the influx of residents in the new tenements constructed around Indonesia, and moreover the environmentalist are also concerned that the Algae Fuel technology would produce the same output of carbon footprint as a normal oil.

In response, the KNPP stated that the new industries they are building is as green and safe as it could be. It would be 90% operated by automated robots, which would use renewables such as solar power as a source of energy. Concerning waste, special processing centers will be included in industrial regions to process waste outputs created by industries and reproduce them as recycled resources for that can be used again by the industries. Heavier industries such as Metal and Steel Industries would be built in volcanic regions, so that the smelting process can use geothermal heat instead of fossil fuels that is normally used and causes toxic level of pollution.

Regarding the topic of residential areas, the KNPP has also assured that it is well-planned. All of the residential areas being build will have its own infrastructure and superstructure network. Meaning that all public facilities and necessities such as hospitals, schools, daycare, and even supermarkets will be within a range of maximum 15 minutes of travel by foot. Bicycle installations and electric-powered mini-buses will also operate to improve accessibility. This would eliminate the need of personal transportations, in turn reducing carbon output from the transportation needs. Wastes from residential areas would be collected and treated the same-way as industrial wastes.

Additionally, resource needs of the residences such as electricity, water, and even food will be sufficiently covered by the residential complex itself, as it is designed to be fully self-sustainable. Solar collectors and small wind turbines are included in the buildings. Water would be taken from the sea after a process of desalination, and waste/used water would be piped towards processing centers where it is reprocessed and can be used again for other purposes. For food, there will be a vertical-farm building for every residential complex to provide fresh vegetable and fruit products. Though, meat and poultry products must still be produced and transported in from rural farms.

Finally, when asked about the issue whether the new Algae Fuel would be as polluting as oil or not, the KNPP stated that while it would not be as clean as thorium and other renewable sources of energy, it is far cleaner than traditional oil and certainly more reliable than the renewable energies. The KNPP states that to prevent an overuse of oil that would restart the environmental problems of the 20th and 21st centuries, Algae fuel use would be limited to a certain amount of power plants and gasoline products should only be used for military purposes such as military vehicle fuel. Public and Personal transportations would rely on clean electricity and not combustion. Vehicles would have solar collectors on their roof and also rechargeable in power stations.

The KNPP is certain that the developments would have minimal impact towards the environment, and insists that the most important thing to prevent environmental disasters is for the people to use the green infrastructure that is provided by the KNPP according to plan.

The KNPP is well-aware of the risks if the industrial developments went uncontrollable and causes an environmental crisis therefore an enforcement towards environmental care and safety shall be pressed, as Indonesia would not like its economic growth to share a similar fate as the Chinese industrial growth in the early 21st century.

Spoiler :

"The massive industrial developments of China in the early 21st century disregards the environmental impacts and ends up as one of the worst environmental crisis humanity has ever faced."

Sorry, I can't restrain myself from making this:

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

Take up the Edo burden—
Send forth the worst ye breed—
Go, bind the C–ks to serfdom
To sate your homeland's greed;
To fasten heavy harness
On foreign folk, and mild—
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
G–k woman, man and child.

Take up the Edo burden—
Impatient claims to land,
Thin veil'd the threat of terror
Cuts short true freedom's stand;
Through uncouth speech make simple
Your strategy of pain,
Rob natives of their labour
And stunt the locals' gain.

Take up the Edo burden—
The savage war of peace—
Through strife and exploitation
Your own wealth will increase.
And if the doltish heathens
Should dare your will dispute,
Then, in the name of freedom,
Don't hesitate to shoot.

Take up the Edo burden—
Fret not the global law—
You've scorned every convention;
Your rep will never thaw.
The napalm's made for burning,
And targets are abound:
UN and G–k civilians—
Bomb them into the ground.

Take up the Edo burden—
Ignore the global press,
For why respect your neighbours
When your will they contest?
Retreat into the fortress
Of fantasy and myth,
Renounce your subjects' welfare
And ride to war forthwith.

Take up the Edo burden—
T'is time you made a stand;
Your base, conniving scholars
Declare the world your land.
With false and racist theories
Advance your iron will
Of hate and domination
That turns all good to ill.

Take up the Edo burden!
T'is now your last recourse:
You've burnt all of your bridges
With reason and remorse.
You claim it's death or vic'try;
Still, bear this truth in mind:
Your each and every evil
Will be repaid in kind.

—Anonymous submission to the Jerusalem Post, Thursday, October 15, 2105.

hereby pissing off declaring war on the UAR, and the Roman Empire, Indo-Persia, Ireland, and Malacca.

To start.

 

[Bair_the_Normal]

Everyone forgets Sìchuān.

 

[Reus]

Everyone forgets Sìchuān.

OOC: But......but Indonesia remembers to put Sìchuān flag in the picture we made

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

You and Texarkana weren't at war at the start.

 

[Bair_the_Normal]

Oh good point. In fact, I don't actually think we're at war yet.

In that case, the People's Republic of Sìchuān declares war on the Empire of Japan for their rejection of the perfectly valid and generous Zhèngzhōu Ultimatum.

As such, the People's Republic of Sìchuān drops all of its claims for this year.

 

[TheGryphonPrince]

The Indo-Persian kingdom reminds the USA about the petition they made to buy weaponry and in addition would like to know the prices for anti-air weaponry and long-range artillery to attack any japanese ship that tries to disembark on the arab gulf.

 

[Ailedhoo]

"Thus the irony of the Platonic Republic (who initially went to war against Japan before the UN got involve) being neutral with Japan due to peace treaty (and the People's Militia's presence) comes present as the "aggressive action" which the Platonic Republic once took is now to be taken by the UN. They should have seen Japan's actions coming."

An notice hung outside the Platonic Embassy in Jerusalem.

"The Philosopher Council will continue to honour neutrality with Japan, if at least to allow us to complete our self review and to annihilate the terrorist threat that dares threaten to cause uncivil unrest."

Yorgos Verga to news reporters in Athens.

"Who wants order from Plato's hypocrites?"

Graffiti in Benghazi, photographed before it was removed by Platonic authorities.

"For the 11th time: did not harm children during the liberation of Thessaloniki."

General Xylon Toto to random Indonesian reporters.

"They took our homes because they wanted us to "feel at home" with their twisted justice."

A anonymous refugee from Thessaloniki.

"At this rate the Olympics will be conducting a new special event; outrun the Protective Caste's and the People's Militia's bullet storm."

Cyrus Antonopoulos, an exile from Greece currently in Cairo.

"The tower will demonstrate the might and will of platonic justice."

Cyrus Colonomos, Protective Caste Artitect and designer of the "Tower of Plato."

"The Tower of the Platonic Babel"

Commonly signed graffiti in Thessaloniki.

 

[Civ'ed]

OOC: I find it highly amusing that somehow I'm incapable of playing a warmongering nation.

 

[christos200]

When do orders lock?

 

[Mosher]

The Indo-Persian kingdom reminds the USA about the petition they made to buy weaponry and in addition would like to know the prices for anti-air weaponry and long-range artillery to attack any japanese ship that tries to disembark on the arab gulf.

We must have missed it. Our apologies. Could you post it again?

The price of our 48MM Anti-Aircraft Guns have a unit cost of $20m/unit. Our 50MM Satellite-Guided Artillery are 90m/unit. We're willing to break each package down into 5 individual payments, with 15% increased cost on each payment. 95% of payment is due to Penobscot Industries, 5% to the US government.

 

[danjuno]

When do orders lock?

RC said it was pushed back to Tuesday or Wednesday.

 

[KaiserElectric]

Preferably the latter, I still need to hear back from him on something.

 

[TheGryphonPrince]

We must have missed it. Our apologies. Could you post it again?

The price of our 48MM Anti-Aircraft Guns have a unit cost of $20m/unit. Our 50MM Satellite-Guided Artillery are 90m/unit. We're willing to break each package down into 5 individual payments, with 15% increased cost on each payment. 95% of payment is due to Penobscot Industries, 5% to the US government.

This is the original offer.

Alright then. We would like 200 48MM Anti-Aircraft guns and 50 satelite-guided artillery. We are sending a large convoy of transports to America. Is our offer acceptable?

 

[Mosher]

This is the original offer.

Alright then. We would like 200 48MM Anti-Aircraft guns and 50 satelite-guided artillery. We are sending a large convoy of transports to America. Is our offer acceptable?

Production will start as soon as payment arrives.

 

[Ailedhoo]

The Platonic Republic will take its time to reconfirm that we accept the weapon deal with the USA and we hope Cerberus will enjoy these tools greatly for their operations.

We are also considering purchasing a aircraft carrier for reverse engineering prestige and strategic positioning.

OOC: finally: remember to do your part in the IOT wiki!

 

[Mathalamus]

We are also considering purchasing a aircraft carrier for reverse engineering prestige and strategic positioning.

we can give you the plans for the Basic Design of an Aircraft Carrier. the Constantinople is a modification of that design.

the Roman Empire can obviously build it, since the Constantinople exists.