Abargrapt
01-05-2004, 07:51
Broken under now Chancellor Ernest Swann’s direction by Abargrapt’s storm of passion, (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2989675#2989675) the Eastgate-imposed treaties that limited the nation’s economic, industrial, and military potential seemed all the more abstract. Hundreds of slums had been flattened- in recent months mechanical tools had been primarily responsible. Factories were turning out construction tools and materials, agricultural machines, and every day items such as good pots and pans- luxury items under Fool Prince Willard of Eastgate. National moral was as high as anyone could ever remember it being, higher, even! With their new machines and renewed willingness to work for a cause, and with the new Republican government refusing to honour New Eastgate’s crippling demands on their output, farms were finally providing enough for all to be well fed. Now trains ran on time and in safe condition- previously only the Royal Train and its dedicated lines had been close to civilised. The economy was already much more than twice what it had been, and the days when Swann had played chess with his Mauatu friend for up to half a million kindsleymarks a go were gone with the hyperinflation that caused such bets to be made on street corners.
No one cared that Abatov was the only party, so the press insisted. Who could oppose a party born of the Movement For Abargrapt? Only an Eastgate-sympathiser, or perhaps one of the Mauatu natives who’d cost Abargrapt the first war by their uncivilised aversion to progress and hard work. No one cared that the biggest drain on their nation’s rebuilding was no longer Eastgater tariffs but Swann’s treaty-breaking armed forces.
The Chancellor had just announced in a speech given at Acranus-Uver-Desavi that Abargrapt would build an army of two hundred thousand men. The Republic only had about fifteen million residents, and wasn’t officially allowed 10% of that military strength. He also said that the navy would soon launch ships over ten thousand tons, again far far greater than was legal according to treaty.
The point of the day was an address given by Abatov Party Chairman Hercule Shoemake, ex-Bluesock Sgt and arguably Swann’s right hand man. This behemoth of a person now wore a more elaborate manifestation of his old Movement uniform- the stockings were still blue, but the epaulettes were bigger and the buttons shinier. The Chairman’s prepared speech made official many of Swann’s boastful promises, and announced plans to have the new Abargraptian Republican Navy’s first flagship, AS Abargrapt afloat within seven months. Her sister, to be named Kindsley was due to be laid down six months prior to that date- any day now.
Little was said of the vessels, or of the composition of Abargrapt’s new army, but Shoemake did go into some elaborate length on the matter of Abargrapt’s economic and industrial growth- for the first time faster than that of its neighbour, he said.
(...He added, without much ceremony, that Mauatu resident in Abargrapt would report to their local town hall or police station for career reassignment in roles more suited to their temperament. )
No one cared that Abatov was the only party, so the press insisted. Who could oppose a party born of the Movement For Abargrapt? Only an Eastgate-sympathiser, or perhaps one of the Mauatu natives who’d cost Abargrapt the first war by their uncivilised aversion to progress and hard work. No one cared that the biggest drain on their nation’s rebuilding was no longer Eastgater tariffs but Swann’s treaty-breaking armed forces.
The Chancellor had just announced in a speech given at Acranus-Uver-Desavi that Abargrapt would build an army of two hundred thousand men. The Republic only had about fifteen million residents, and wasn’t officially allowed 10% of that military strength. He also said that the navy would soon launch ships over ten thousand tons, again far far greater than was legal according to treaty.
The point of the day was an address given by Abatov Party Chairman Hercule Shoemake, ex-Bluesock Sgt and arguably Swann’s right hand man. This behemoth of a person now wore a more elaborate manifestation of his old Movement uniform- the stockings were still blue, but the epaulettes were bigger and the buttons shinier. The Chairman’s prepared speech made official many of Swann’s boastful promises, and announced plans to have the new Abargraptian Republican Navy’s first flagship, AS Abargrapt afloat within seven months. Her sister, to be named Kindsley was due to be laid down six months prior to that date- any day now.
Little was said of the vessels, or of the composition of Abargrapt’s new army, but Shoemake did go into some elaborate length on the matter of Abargrapt’s economic and industrial growth- for the first time faster than that of its neighbour, he said.
(...He added, without much ceremony, that Mauatu resident in Abargrapt would report to their local town hall or police station for career reassignment in roles more suited to their temperament. )