NationStates Jolt Archive

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As the new Serayan Prime Minister Sergei Mitriev announced during a press conference yesterday, the People's Republic of Seraya is about to restart their nuclear weapons and power programme which was abandoned five years ago due to international pressure and the lack of financial resources.
"It is important", Mitriev said, "that a nation like ours has the ability and the weapons to defend itself. Sure, the construction of nuclear weapons has always been a difficult topic, but we can ensure the people of Seraya that these weapons will not be used if it can be avoided."

Communication
From: Archduke Stouffer of Moozimoo
To: Leader of Seraya
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I must personally discourage you from the use of nuclear weapons. As you can see from the current crisis in Feazanthia, vaporizing a country does not solve any problems. It is like suicide bombers - the enemy dies, but you die too. Nuclear weapons are the only things that can cause irreprebable damage to our planet. Once again, I urge you, use nuclear technology only for power.

There are better ways to spend this money. Anti-Missile systems are becoming increasingly common, and though I do not sell either nuclear weapons, nor anti-missiles systems, I would recommend that you have a stock of ant-missile systems. The international community shall respect you all the more for it, you will be less likely to be a target, and there will be more people willing to sell you other goods.
(also, Moozimoo hopefully still has the greatest flag ever, and I have vowed to call my first born Moozimoo.)

I agree with the advice given to you by the others. You haven't the resources for a nuclear weapons program. When you do this right after taking control of a country My alliance looks at you like a threat to world peace. I will go a step further then the two before and say that if this program doesn't cease, we will be forced to end them ourselfs. Nuclear weapons are very expensive and you would have little money left over for your people. What is your yearly military budget? I have a nice military budget but i still have not started a nuclear weapons program. It is far to expensive and takes away from more productive things. I hope you heed this warning and cease your program.

General Harrison
Haven Special Forces Commander

In three words: You're too young.

It's an accepted NS rule that you can't have nukes until your population is at least 100 million - Don't go off at me about how RL nations under 100 mil have nuclear weapons, because it wasn't me who thought the rule up.

Basically it's so annoying people who create nations simply to say "I N00K DA WORLEDDDD!!!!! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: " can be ignored with ease - And though you've RP'ed the reasons nicely, it's the principle at stake - if you are allowed to have the weapons before you have 100 million people, then the n00bs will start screaming for them too.

I suggest you look up Sephiroth and Cloudsbody for the kind of person we get using "WE NOOK DA WORLEDDD" and the sort of person the reason is used for - this isn't meant as an insult to you, and I'm in no way comparing you to them, but it's proof of the reason it needs to be upheld.

sorry.

(also, Moozimoo hopefully still has the greatest flag ever, and I have vowed to call my first born Moozimoo.)

:D :oops: awwww, shucks! stop it!
I was actuallt thinking about updating my flag - on the one hand I want one that could actually be a flag, but on the other hand, my current one is so cool! :?

I would like to remember you that this does not mean that Seraya is actually going to CONSTRUCT nuclear weapons. It just means that we are continuing our research in that direction. Perhaps there will be the possibility to contruct these self-defense weapons in the far future, but at the moment, as stated before, we neither have the financial nor political resources to contruct weapons. However, the research project is going to continue.

- Alexander Pavlov, Foreign Minister

I would like to remember you that this does not mean that Seraya is actually going to CONSTRUCT nuclear weapons. It just means that we are continuing our research in that direction.

- Alexander Pavlov, Foreign Minister

Our economists have calculated your govenment budget to be $8.424 billion. We would like to know what percentage of your budget is being spent on the milatary, especially with your commitments to welfare and education ranking so highly on the spending order.

Military spending has been increased to 11%. We are mostly concentrating on keeping the old Republican Army alive and equipped with weaponry to suppress any antidemocratic action in our country. Under the former government, activities of radical groups have extemely increased and that's why this policy is the only one possible.
The Nuclear Power Initiative which was the trigger of this discussion will be given a small budget (10 million) to ensure a slow but effective development in technology, especially in the civil area.

It isn't recommended that you ever increase military spending to above 15%, doing that would cripple your economy. 15% is still only recommended in wartime.

Ah, excuse me, this was of course a typing error. It should have been 11 percent.

(OOC: I don't have any experience with numbers like that, gotta get into the matter first 8) )