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New Danubian Federation
A strange pre-war facility was found on the western fringes of the Danubian Federation. Of the few daring souls that entered the facility, only one survived to tell a tale. Driven to madness by the events that unfolded in the pre-war facility, he warned of highly-advanced automated weapon systems defending the facility inside, laboratories that seemed to stretch on for days, and of "monsters". The man has since been committed to an asylum, but not before peaking the interest of many who wish to investigate or further exploit the tombs.
The Issue: A majority of citizens wish to see the pre-war facility contained and eventually destroyed as to prevent whatever is inside the facility from wrecking havoc outside. This Purian reaction would be popular, but it would mean failing to take whatever is in the facility.
A group of military officers, scientists, and engineers are petitioning the government to further investigate the facility. Who knows what incredible prototype technology is down there waiting to be exploited? Who knows whether some unfinished prototype for a more sophisticated fusion reactor or solar panel rests beneath the Bohemian soil in the sprawling complex below?
Transitional Authority of Central America
Some people inside the TACA, and many outside, would question being a government in transition for forty years. However, given the remarkable stability in the TACA, maybe the constant transition and reforms is what has kept the pan-Central American government on its toes? No matter the case, there are those who wish to see the government finally transition to something at least.
The country's democratic intellectual elite believe that the military should take Elective as legitimacy and hold elections. Such an action would still leave the military as a substantial power broker in a country, while granting the military reprieve from day-to-day management of ultimately civilian matters. Elective, democrats claim, should come with the creation of a legislative body as well.
However, some starry-eyed officers, influenced greatly by Austellus's mode of thought in the north, believe that monarchical rule would suit the diverse country of Central America well. They argue that only strong, absolute rule by a single bloodline of rulers would maintain the needed stability. The fact that this bloodline would likely branch out and contain many military officer families is a fact left unspoken in these discussions.
But the general staff of the country, as you would imagine, prefer the current status quo of the president of the country simply being replaced by a vote of the general staff. Such a system is useful in periods of good stability, but in terms of tumult could cause a power vacuum upon the death of the ruler, which some ambitious claimants may try to fill violently.
Corporate Collective Conclave
It would be unsurprisingly if Greece because CCC's largest trade partner naturally. Greece is the closest, accessible, neighbor the CCC has, after all. The promise of trade ties doesn't change the fact that on very fundamental levels, Greece is a different country. Democratic versus autocratic. Free versus decidedly not.
Some executives in the CCC has, under assumed names, written articles about the need for the CCC to gain a direct route to the Mediterranean without having to worry about the Greeks acting as a spoiler. Many of these articles leave their conclusions up to the reader, but some have gone as far as to say that several islands should be seized from Greece in a "quick, decisive" attack.
