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From the Diary of Don Juan Alejandro de Sanchez,
January 1, 1950,

At last, I have risen to power at the head of the beautiful tropical island of Tropico! The people loved me - I believed they took very very well to my final speeches against my opponent - the vile Eduardo Esteban - (not to mention a few ... ahh... let us say 'special' contributions on my part - heheh). Now I am el Presidenté, at last!

There is not much to see here, at first glances (the last three presidentés left the place in shambles), other than my palace, the remaining construction ministry and teamster's office, a dock, some farms, and a great many ugly shacks. Needless to say, this will change in time. My miner's background tells me, however, that Tropico might be extremely lucrative for socialist industry - I think there's gold in them thar hills!

Ahh well... I shall write more later - now el Presidenté must do a little... overview of the palace's wine cellar. I hear there's some fine, delicious, delectable...ahh.... *writing trails off*

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Don Juan Alejandro de Sanchez
El Presidenté de la Républica de Tropico
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Dear Nations of the world,

Whilst our honourable presidenté gets reacquainted with our last three presidentés' cider stores (or was it our last four? Five? Ay caramba, there have been so many presidentés...), let me, Guillermo Sotomayor - el Presidenté's personal advisor - introduce you to some of Tropico's fine leadership:

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This is Ximena Flores, the Diplomatic Advisor. She is 45 years old, and has the sharpest wit, harshest tongue, and lightest touch in all of Tropico (I know this from experience). If you'll be dealing with us, you'll have to talk to Mrs. Flores first.

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This is Ramon Allendé, leader of the capitalists and el Presidenté's financial advisor. Rather unpopular, his skill at making money is nonetheless, an asset to our new Presidenté's grand plans for Tropico's future.

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This is Pépé Gomez, leader of the egghea- erm I mean the Intellectuals, and the Science Advisor. A rather dapper, quiet old man of 67 years, he is almost certainly never wrong, though he can be quite curmudgeony at times.

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This is Domingué Santiago del Fuego, leader of the militarist faction and military advisor to el Presidenté. With a predilection towards finely-rolled cigars, General del Fuego is not a man to be trifled with, for if his hot temper will not get you, his soldiers certainly will.

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And finally, last, but not least, the beautiful Conchita Ruiz, Construction Advisor to the president, leader of the Communist Party, and certainly the most attractive of his cabinet. Don't let her prodigious -erm ahh well you know - decieve you, for Ms. Ruiz always manages to get the first and the last words in any argument.

This ends our brief introduction to our little island republic of Tropico. Best wishes, and buenos noches!

-Sincerely,
Guillermo Sotomayor,
Personal Advisor to El Presidenté

Respond, plz!

Some images from Tropico!

A sunset on one of Tropico's pristine beaches

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Bump? Anyone...

Ho fame. Voligio mangiare un piato di spaghetti. pui bere un grande bichiere di pepsi.

As an act of goodwill, we will provide your nation with 40 billion USD for rebuilding of your nation's industries and infrastructure.

This money is a gift, however, if we see that it is not being used as it should be, we will act swiftly to take it back and punish your country and its people for its foolishness.

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Premier Bomfy
People's Republic of Aequatio

Premier of Aequatio:

We thank you for your generous contribution to our little republic. We can assure you that this wealth shall go to many many causes just and good.

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Ximena Flores
Diplomatic Minister

OOC: I LOVE THAT GAME!

¿Presidenté?. Es presidente no "presidenté". (the right spelling is presidente not presidenté).

Well, Aelosia, the people on Tropico_ do not, in fact, speak Spanish, but a language exactly like it, save for minor spelling differences! It is known as Tropican, and the people are called Tropicanos.

Slutbum: Yes, I like it too! ^_^

To the peoples of Tropico, we would offer you money, but we've got a better idea, we therefore offer to send 15 of our elite Special Forces to train a "Presidential Guard" of sorts for your leader, what say you? our Special Forces are highly skilled in many ways of dealing death, we'd not teach all of our methods and such, but enough to make a truly lethal force.
~Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carol Zdhanov.

Dear Nations of Earth,

His excellency, President Don Juan Alejandro de Sanchez, our beloved leader, has granted me permission to release a small dossier on his background and an assessment on his abilities as a leader.

It goes as follows:



NAME: de Sanchez, Don Juan A.
AGE: 32
NATIONALITY: Tropican
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Tropico
EDUCATION: Some primary schooling, dropped out at the age of 8 to work in the Mines

PRESIDENTIAL SPECS:

Background: Miner- +50% Miner Productivity, +10% Communist Faction, +10% Capitalist Faction, -20% Environmental Faction
Rise to Power: Bought the Election- Low Democratic Expectations, -5% Intellectual Faction, Can Commit Election Fraud with lower consequences
Flaws: Womanizer- -10% Religious Faction, -10% Women's Respect,
Alcoholic- -15% Religious Faction, -5% Global Productivity, +10% Russian Relations,
Positive Traits: Hardworking- +10% Overall Productivity,
Charismatic- +5% All Factions, +50 Radio/TV Dogma Effectiveness



As you can see, el Presidenté is a varied, and interesting character, and his flaws tend to supplement his assets. Perhaps he will do better than our last several (I have given up trying to recall how many there were...) presidentés.

-Signed,
Guillermo Sotomayor,
Personal Advisor to El Presidenté

Federal Republic News Network:

President de los Santos announced a moderate aid package to the nation of Tropico in order to sway it away from Commusim and Socialism. In the aid package was enginnering designs, and the offer to reduce the costs of any new construction by up to 50% of the suspected building costs. President de los Santos also announced that tourism will commence immediately as an overwhelming tide of large middle income persons seek new vacation spots outside of NYNJ.

The Empire of DGNT welcomes the people of Tropico to NationStates, we regret that we are unable to send a represenative due to temporal difficulties.

Thelas is sending an aid package of 5,000,000 Thelasian Credits, we hope that this will help revitalize your economy, we strongly suggest building up a rum industry.

OOC: Love that game too, a Booze Baron, with a fully functional Rum factory making spiced rum, rich rich rich

To the peoples of Tropico, we would offer you money, but we've got a better idea, we therefore offer to send 15 of our elite Special Forces to train a "Presidential Guard" of sorts for your leader, what say you? our Special Forces are highly skilled in many ways of dealing death, we'd not teach all of our methods and such, but enough to make a truly lethal force.
~Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carol Zdhanov. Please consider this offer.

Tropico: Buen trabajo en todo. Me gusta tu esfuerzo mucho.

-Nik

Tropico: Buen trabajo en todo. Me gusta tu esfuerzo mucho.

-Nik Translation: "Good work in all. Your effort pleases me a great deal"

Sorry, just translating for those who don't read Spanish.

Tropico: Buen trabajo en todo. Me gusta tu esfuerzo mucho.

-Nik Translation: "Good work in all. Your effort pleases me a great deal"

Sorry, just translating for those who don't read Spanish.

The way I meant it was (this is why translation is tricky):

"Good work on everything. I like your effort very much."

(on and in are the same, everything and all as well).

-Nik

Heck, just for fun, and to be safe, I'll repeat the offer I made earlier.

A las personas de Tropico, nosotros le ofreceríamos dinero, pero hemos obtenido una mejor idea, nosotros por lo tanto la oferta para mandar 15 de nuestro élite las Fuerzas Especiales a entrenar a un "Guardia Presidencial" de tipos para su líder, qué lo dice? nuestras Fuerzas Especiales son sumamente hábiles en muchas maneras de tratar la muerte, nosotros enseñaríamos no todos nuestros métodos y tan, pero suficiente en hacer una fuerza sinceramente mortal.
ßMinister de Asuntos Extranjeros, el Villancico Zdhanov.

Tropico: Buen trabajo en todo. Me gusta tu esfuerzo mucho.

-Nik

That sounds weird in spanish you know?, kind of unnatural.

"Todo es un buen trabajo. Me gusta mucho tu esfuerzo"

"Muy buen trabajo. Me agrada mucho tu esfuerzo"

I can barely understand Kecha's statement, so I won't do any comments about it. (seriously, I can barely understand it!)

To all:

We thank you for your generous contributions. They will be ... ahh... "well-appreciated".

As for the proposal for an élite corporal guard of highly-trained soldiers, I think we will have to debate it a bit in the cabinet, before we accept your offer.

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Ximena Flores,
Diplomatic Minister

To: Ximena Flores
From: Domingué Santiago del Fuego

WHAT? ARE YOU MAD, WOMAN? This is a golden opportunity! We have no time to waste! We must seize every chance we get to strengthen Tropico's defence forces!

To: Domingué Santiago del Fuego
From: Ximena Flores

Quiet, animal! If it's El Presidenté's own guard, don't you think that El Presidenté has the right to determine it himself? Why don't you go polish your artillery pieces - or oil your guns or something.

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