NationStates Jolt Archive

The streets are silent on this day, 24th of October, in the sprawling, overcrowded, and crammed streets of Port Yuko, Bonstock. In its slums it is estimated that perhaps 200 million people, mostly poor immigrants from thrid world nations, live, most without jobs, crowded into small room where whole families live. Still, life was better once. It used to be that despite the overcrowding, dwellers led a relativly good life. They had modern appliances, almost everyone had internet access, schools were good, and people had good paying jobs. Then the Bank of Bonstock collapsed, and took the Bonstocknian tech sector with it. Millionaires cashed out, and with a new law many distinguished businessmen have been given noble titles and land once only reserved for military officers. Many of these millionaires were immigrants from territories now occupied by Abu Dhabi Kristatata. Saudi and Pakistani oilmen with contacts in Bonstock fled to escape the systematic Christianization of the Middle East. Poorer families were left behind. They could not afford to go to Bonstock. The new "aristocracy" continues to campaign for a holy war on ADK, saying especially that they took part in the Marxist Pact, and have aligned themselves with Dark Terror, who average Bonstocknains have hated with vigor ever since the bombing campaign that killed 5 million Bonstocknians. Still, the new Saudi oilers are alienating many portions of influencial Bonstocknian society, most notably the working Proletariat which has been squashed and oppressed. Also alienated have been many Army officers, mostly hardnosed Prussians and Chinese. All of tehm at least act aristocratic. Most of them have had long family histories of service. They own small estates in the countryside, and influence Bonstocknian society greatly. This was long ago when Bonstock made fortunes selling weapons packages abroad, making over 3 trillion dollars, which proppelled the economy and made Bonstock what it was. But for a while things have been defferent. Bonstock has slowly been growing apart. All of a sudden, almost a month ago(ooc: NS time), Bonstock's economy collapsed. The giant Bank of Bonstock, the largest private company in Bonstock, was hit by an insider trading scandal just as the tech stocks collapsed. The company crashed down, and brought IT down with it, quickly making many Bonstocknians jobless. The government has taken much criticism for this. The administration of Bonstocknian President Hu Li was quickly underfire. The 25 year old woman, formerly the Bonstocknian Secretary of Foreign Affairs and the virtually handpicked successor of the great former President Charles Ste. Evremonde, was called "inexperianced" and "to interested in wars" by prominant critics. Alfred von Strauswitz, former opponent of Hu Li's in the past election, has stepped up his criticism of the administration. Formerlly a Bonstocknian admiral, he was almost court martialed when he ordered the destruction of an innocent refugee ship. Though his order was overruled and the ship escaped unharmed, von Strauswitz quickly resigned to escape the humiliation of court martial. Bonstocknian intelligence has stated that he has founded a new opposition party, called the National Socialist Bonstocknian Worker's Party. Some experts say that it is coordinating with the new Bonstocknian Bolshevik Party to revolt against the government. But so far no mention of this has been made official. Bonstocknian life continues, as dissent builds among the populace. The government is stepping up security, but it remains to be decided what will come of this...

ooc: When the NSBWs and Bolsheviks revolt, feel free to take sides. I want a world war that doesnt get called a world war.

*declares presence as an observer, for now, and bumps*

A crowd gathers in a small allyway. A man steps up, and starts to speak.

"Comrades, the day has come for our liberation. Our capitalist administration has failed us. The burgiosie is now ruling our lives, continuing to divide us. For what? Where will they stop? To arms, citoyens! We must liberate our homeland from the capitalist pigs! March on! March on! March to Parliament! Unseat Hu Li, the capitalist pig like all the rest in power, oppressing your brothers, your comrades! Come children of the fatherland! The day of glory has arrived! Rise up to claim what is ours! Liberate us, children! Liberate the fatherland! Put bread back on our tables!"

The crowd chanted "Hoorah! To arms! Hoorah!" They took signs in their hands, and the general strike began.

If the fighting spreads to the Maropian coast I might do something.

If the fighting spreads to the Maropian coast I might do something.
ooc: the government is gonna be booted out to Maropian Coast. It will probably be bombed heavily by the rebels controlling Bonstock proper. I figure the war will devestate the Ryuku islands along with most of the Pacific.

OOC:Well then we will just have to restore order when that happens... with our IRBMs loaded with anthrax GAMMA.

OOC:Well then we will just have to restore order when that happens... with our IRBMs loaded with anthrax GAMMA.

ooc: dont. this is gonna be a GOOD rp. not a nuke fest.

ic:

The streets fill with angry protestors walking to the Parliament House. They demand the resignation of President Hu Li, the restoration of worker's rights, free elections, and the installation of a new economic program to help bolster the economy. They also want Bonstock to stay out of Japan. Chanting "We want bread! We want peace!" they march by the millions. President Hu Li watches high above in her office suite on the highest floor of the Bank of Bonstock building, which housed government offices. She said to an aide "What is this?"

The aide replied "A protest. Angry workers."

"Lieutenant,"

"Yes Ms President?"

"Dismiss them. They have overstayed their welcome."

"Yes, Ms President."

The aide went down to a bunker, taking a TOW missile launcher and a missile. He took it upstairs, and aimed it at the crowd, supported by dozens of guards. Warning shots were fired into the air. Then the mob started to grow thicker. The lietenant aimed the TOW, and fired it right through the crowd.

It is unknown how many died in that one moment. Bodies were sliced in half, cut to fine pieces. Blood was everywhere. It was the massacre that would spark a revolution...

...among them, two Berëzan agents - Danilo Gobrusenko of the Ministry of the Interior, and Sasha Tantzova of the Ministry of the Exterior. The latter was observing the political situation from an international point of view. The former, however, was also investigating possible connections to a very small and unpopular but violent and surprisingly organized group of Bolshevist extremists in Berëza itself.

They were not spies, and as such, had on them papers that identified them as not only Berëzans, but as members of their respective Ministires. Fortunately, neither was alone - they both had teams in the country. Stolichnaya* would hear about this, no doubt...

*Berëzan capital

In Bonstock, the protestors run through the streets, shaken by the bloody massacre. They scream the names of the dead, beg for mercy. Ambulances cannot gat through the chaos. The wounded are left dying in the streets. Tear gas is launched, and the crowd chokes as police advance. A mob of men turns angry. One man gets high up. Using a megaphone, he speaks loudly in a German accent.

"Friends, comrades! Calm! We must show our detirmination! We must get revenge for this! We must take the law into our own hands! These are the death crys of a dying system! Let us destroy it now to prevent the spilling of more blood! Come comrades! Unite!" The crowd suddenly turned emboldened. Mayhem started in the streets. Cars were overturned and shops were destroyed. Rocks were thrown at the police, returned by gunshots. Rioters fashoned knives out of broken glass, and raided a small warehouse. They found Kalishnikovs and RPGs, millions of them. They took to arms, and a bloody gunfight ensued. Hu Li, surveying from above, ordered an evacuation of government offices. A helicopter approached. It was fired at by RPGs, and shot down, crashing onto a crowd of police. Another one quickly flew above, and the President and elements of High Command climbed aboard. The helicopter headed for a secret Bonstocknian base deep in the forests. The city fell within two minutes, and the emboldened patriots brought many prisoners to a place outside the building. Prisoners were publicly executed. Meanwhile, emboldened, two million troops marched out of the city, "liberating" towns along the coast and up the penninsula that was Bonstock. Military units dissolved in their path. There were simply to many enemies. Some joined the rebellion, marching on the federal facility at Nozomi Station.

Hello Bonstock. :)


~Tech-A~

Hello Bonstock. :)


~Tech-A~
ooc: hello. No ooc, please.

ic: Federal facilities fell like dominoes to the uprising. Cargo ships quickly departed, carrying anything of military value to Bonstock's overseas colony in Maropian Coast, Taiwan. President Hu Li went to a secret bunker below a Bonstocknian air force base. Planes were waiting to take her and High Command to Maropian Coast. But they were going to be surrounded by millions of rebels encroaching on the formerly impenitrable base.

sorry, but i've to ask an ooc question - how secret is the location of Hu Li? would two well-informed, though not omniscient, Berëzan agents at least be able to contact her in a fairly discrete fashion?