1950
The first year of work of El Presidente, Pablo Lorenzo Vásquez, was a hard one. His promises during the campaign had been many, and he started to work as soon as he was able to.
With the good of the people in his mind, one of the first things he did was to order the construction of a Tenement, so that more people could find refuge from the inclemency of weather. However, it would not be enough, because there were still many people awaiting to enter. Also, two prospectors from the United States were asked to come to Trópico as soon as possible, so that they could tell him whether the nation had any natural mineral resources. He decided that he should also start to put up tariffs so that those things the nation could make were not bought from other countries: he expected that this would help the economy to improve.
When the building was finished on March, he decided to fulfill one of his promises, as well as managing to put one over those blasted Communists that had been giving him so much grief over the idea of religion: the construction of a church, which would surely gain him many points between the religious community of Trópico.
While the First Church of Trópico was being built, the two prospectors arrived. El Presidente sent them on their task, while he observed dismayed that several people had come with the prospectors, with the obvious intention of staying in Trópico. He published an edict to clearly state that, from now on, Trópico would receive no immigrants, ever, as they would be taxing to the people's jobs and housing.
The two prospectors came back some time before the First Church was built. They showed him a series of maps, with the many natural resources found in the Tropican subsoil drawn on them. They also made several insinuations that, if El Presidente allowed it, they would be more than helpful in asking a corporation they had worked with a few times to come to Trópico and start the exploitation of those resources. El Presidente heard their argumentations, and soon had his soldiers "escort" the prospectors back to the Docks, where they would have to take the ship back to the United States.
Soon came the day when the Church was finally built. El Presidente was there, in its first Mass, and prayed with the rest of the Tropicans - save for those few that believed religions were nothing but lies used to control the people - as the priests gave them the host. It was on the steps of the church that he announced a new policy: from now on, all contraceptives would be banned, as God did not like it when people had sex if it was not for just procreation. Several cheers were heard, but also some booing from what could be construed a small infringement on their liberty.
El Presidente paid no attention to them, of course: after all, he was El Presidente, and he knew better than those idiots that dared to boo at him.
Using the maps the prospectors had given him, he saw that there were several oil deposits in some parts of the island, as well as many ore deposits of many kinds. There were also many trees that could be cut down. He had one of his friends travel to the United States to steal the plans for the construction of an oil well, while he also ordered the construction of a logging camp to cut down trees for their potential use in the future for anything. There was much one could do with those logs.
As he walked by the place where the logging camp was being built, he noticed with some disgust how some people were not being very tidy and had dropped papers and other things on the floor, right next to where he was. He decided that this was enough for him to pass an Anti-Littering Ordinance, which would fine anyone caught not dropping any rubbish on a bin.
The friend he had sent to the United States had been lucky, and had brought with him a set of plans that could be used to build a working oil well. As soon as the camp was finished, the builders were sent to a place that was quite far away from the city, but where the prospectors had marked as having a huge oil deposit. It was not until late November that the well was up and running, allowing for the export of crude oil to other countries, thus starting to push the trading balance towards the green numbers.
December ended without any problem, and El Presidente happily started to make plans for the next year.
Results
Trópico
4 immigrants + 6 new adults = +10 Population
+2 Nationalists, +1 Capitalist, +2 Communists, +1 Environmentalist, +1 Intellectual, +2 Religious, +1 Militarists
New Buildings: 1 Tenement (+10 Housing), 1 Church (+4 Jobs), 1 Logging Camp (+4 Jobs), 1 Oil Well (+2 Jobs)
Available Buildings: Sawmill (transforms the logs into wood that can be used in factories), Oil Refinery (transforms Crude into Refined Oil), Cathedral (bigger church)
New Exports: Logs, Crude
New Imports: Refined Oil
Superpowers
United States: -2 ("We do not like your closing the borders to our products")
Soviet Union: -1 ("We do not like your insults towards Communism")
Factions
Pablo Lorenzo Vásquez
+1 Nationalists
-1 Capitalists
-1 Communists
-2 Intellectuals
-1 Environmentalists
+2 Religious
Ernesto Peron Chavez
+1 Communists
-1 Religious
Dovah Kin
-1 Nationalists
+1 Capitalists
-1 Communists
+1 Religious
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