Zapadslavia
18-12-2004, 12:59
State media in Socialistina Sloga-Republika Zapadslavia reported to the ten unified peoples an address by their Chairman, in which he dealt with the pending constitution. There was no longer any denying that the Unity-Republic was going to stick around.
Draft 2005 Constitution compiled
The constitution of the Socialist Unity-Republic of Zapadslavia would not be formally introduced until the beginning of 2005, but, even before the draft was shared in full with low-level Party members, its resolutions were being enforced.
Publication, distribution, and storage of fascist, religious, jingoist, anti-socialist and dis-unionist propaganda became a crime against the ten peoples of the Unity-Republic, and was as such punishable by up to eight years imprisonment. By the same token, religious and foreign personal, family, and place names became disunifying elements, and citizens and local governments were obliged to change them.
Women’s emancipation was enshrined in the constitution, obliging the more conservative republics to admit girls to school (female literacy had been below 25% in some regions) and work (women were in places traditionally confined to the home and treated as capital). President Javoric made a major issue of decrying such backwards conditions as had previously existed in the field of gender relations, and portrayed traditionalists as disunifying oppressors, using women’s rights to justify much wider purges of the old order.
In line with the second aspect of Javoric’s trilateral philosophy for Zapadslavia, national self-sufficiency, the constitution would make a legal requirement of the duty of each republic to provide for its own food needs. This lead to major land reclamation programmes targeting swamps and bourgeois alike, travel restrictions limiting peasants to rural areas, and the establishment of direct government interest in private livestock.
According to the third aspect, technological and industrial equivalence with foreign powers, the constitution would set into effect a first five-year plan (2005-2010) with very specific aims and enshrine a tradition of apparently detailed and realistic review of practical requirements for future plans. These requirements would be according to founding-President Javoric’s national-view, and in the first plan they hinted at his long-term concern for the viability of his own aims. That is to say, the chances of Zapadslavian industry and technology keeping pace with the best on earth while operating in relative isolation and under strict federal control. The first plan did not focus so much on production or output target percentages, but on the creation of the means to sustain healthy, self-contained economic activity in future plans. If there were three keywords for the new year under Javoric, they were all, “infrastructure!”
In some relation to the last item, the constitution displayed aspects that the Chairman said made it a, “clever constitution” or, “smart document”. It demanded that the federal government and ten republican authorities always make, “productive usefulness” of their duties and responsibilities. To explain, that was manifest in practical examples such as the decision to mobilise redundant workers in the digging of a federation-wide canal network that would have many fringe benefits. It would require less iron than railways, freeing the ore, refineries, and factories for other concerns. It would empower and inspire the redundant masses though participation in public works. It would create additional defensible lines and regions against foreign aggressors and present a more survivable target than would rail or roadways, and vulnerable bridges could always be replaced by tunnels. Finally, it would bring water to all corners of the Unity-Republic, and could feed irrigation programmes in drought-prone regions, helping republics to meet agricultural self-sufficiency targets. The official party commentary on the draft constitution as outlined these benefits did not deal with such matters as the geographical inaccessibility of large parts of the Unity-Republic, nor with the mentioned tunnels, in regard to the technical and industrial obstacle that these things presented.
In reality, many republics would find that the ranks of the unemployed were already too few to meet the manpower demands inherent in carving a canal through a mountain range, and would soon be employing the forced labour of prisoners as enabled in the legal provisions of the draft constitution. On emptying the prisons, the central government looked to re-fill them and the work-pool they represented by more rigorously enforcing the anti-propaganda and anti-disunity laws that had previously been applied more liberally and at the discretion of internal republican governments.
(More news to follow, and if you are interested in any recent history of character focus, please drop by our introductory thread: http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=381830
Thanks for reading.)
Draft 2005 Constitution compiled
The constitution of the Socialist Unity-Republic of Zapadslavia would not be formally introduced until the beginning of 2005, but, even before the draft was shared in full with low-level Party members, its resolutions were being enforced.
Publication, distribution, and storage of fascist, religious, jingoist, anti-socialist and dis-unionist propaganda became a crime against the ten peoples of the Unity-Republic, and was as such punishable by up to eight years imprisonment. By the same token, religious and foreign personal, family, and place names became disunifying elements, and citizens and local governments were obliged to change them.
Women’s emancipation was enshrined in the constitution, obliging the more conservative republics to admit girls to school (female literacy had been below 25% in some regions) and work (women were in places traditionally confined to the home and treated as capital). President Javoric made a major issue of decrying such backwards conditions as had previously existed in the field of gender relations, and portrayed traditionalists as disunifying oppressors, using women’s rights to justify much wider purges of the old order.
In line with the second aspect of Javoric’s trilateral philosophy for Zapadslavia, national self-sufficiency, the constitution would make a legal requirement of the duty of each republic to provide for its own food needs. This lead to major land reclamation programmes targeting swamps and bourgeois alike, travel restrictions limiting peasants to rural areas, and the establishment of direct government interest in private livestock.
According to the third aspect, technological and industrial equivalence with foreign powers, the constitution would set into effect a first five-year plan (2005-2010) with very specific aims and enshrine a tradition of apparently detailed and realistic review of practical requirements for future plans. These requirements would be according to founding-President Javoric’s national-view, and in the first plan they hinted at his long-term concern for the viability of his own aims. That is to say, the chances of Zapadslavian industry and technology keeping pace with the best on earth while operating in relative isolation and under strict federal control. The first plan did not focus so much on production or output target percentages, but on the creation of the means to sustain healthy, self-contained economic activity in future plans. If there were three keywords for the new year under Javoric, they were all, “infrastructure!”
In some relation to the last item, the constitution displayed aspects that the Chairman said made it a, “clever constitution” or, “smart document”. It demanded that the federal government and ten republican authorities always make, “productive usefulness” of their duties and responsibilities. To explain, that was manifest in practical examples such as the decision to mobilise redundant workers in the digging of a federation-wide canal network that would have many fringe benefits. It would require less iron than railways, freeing the ore, refineries, and factories for other concerns. It would empower and inspire the redundant masses though participation in public works. It would create additional defensible lines and regions against foreign aggressors and present a more survivable target than would rail or roadways, and vulnerable bridges could always be replaced by tunnels. Finally, it would bring water to all corners of the Unity-Republic, and could feed irrigation programmes in drought-prone regions, helping republics to meet agricultural self-sufficiency targets. The official party commentary on the draft constitution as outlined these benefits did not deal with such matters as the geographical inaccessibility of large parts of the Unity-Republic, nor with the mentioned tunnels, in regard to the technical and industrial obstacle that these things presented.
In reality, many republics would find that the ranks of the unemployed were already too few to meet the manpower demands inherent in carving a canal through a mountain range, and would soon be employing the forced labour of prisoners as enabled in the legal provisions of the draft constitution. On emptying the prisons, the central government looked to re-fill them and the work-pool they represented by more rigorously enforcing the anti-propaganda and anti-disunity laws that had previously been applied more liberally and at the discretion of internal republican governments.
(More news to follow, and if you are interested in any recent history of character focus, please drop by our introductory thread: http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=381830
Thanks for reading.)