Andaman and Nicobar
29-03-2005, 16:01
The Incorporated States of Andaman and Nicobar
Fewer than four hundred thousand souls -Christian, Hindu, and Muslim- inhabited the many tiny islands that stretched out on the Bay of Bengal between the Indian powers to the west and the chaos of Bonstock and Marimaia collapsed to the east. It was not an enviable position for an authoritarian and moralistic but hopelessly corrupt capitalist representative democracy to inhabit.
Since coming to power almost three full terms previously and uniting the disperate Andamans with Nicobarese authority, President Eustace F.Brown had vastly increased his personal fortune and monopolised ISAN's small but successful economy while trying several times to expand his governmental reach beyond the archipelagos of home.
His attempt to annex the Laccadive (or Lakshadweep) islands had been met by the forces of then authoritarian socialist Beth Gellert and had ended in bloody failure as his Nicobarese Marines were cut-off from their distant bases and superior forces crushed their isolated ranks. Since then, the luckless Marines had run into trouble closer to home as stone age Sentinelese tribes proved more than unwilling to allow their island's proper incorporation into the States.
Many Nicobarese were growing a little tired of the Brown government's antics as it sunk resources into arming against communist hordes that could if they'd desired snuff-out any degree of resistance ISAN could ever hope to offer, and passed more and more legislation against the threat posed by communist spies and insurgent cells that were supposed to be crawling through the jungles like rats through Liberation's sewers.
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The Brown Party's policies were to some about as inspirational as the ruling body's name. While they whipped-up reactionary gun-nuts into a frenzy of milita activity and plastic-flag-waving and their police roughed-up Indians and natives increasingly identified with mainland socialism, Nicobarese libertarians increasingly felt alienated from the nation's political life. Men like Samuel Reubens and Johnathen Tendulkar considered that they'd never actually met a communist, and grew increasingly frustrated with the perception of these people as the opposition in Brown's Incorporated States.
When they tried to indicate that Igovians were not the alternative in Andaman and Nicobar, but that the Incorporated Free Party was, they generally would be told to, "go back to Russia!" in Reubens' case, or to, "go back to India, Paki" in Tendulkar's, which vexed and confused both in roughly equal measure.
Both men had begun to write and speak on Free Party issues, and the authorities were starting finally to take notice, especially since Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors at Brown's omnipresent FBCo and -coincidentally- a prominent member of the Brown Party, Mr.Giles, was heckled by a National University student brandishing a copy of the pair's book, Brownsheviks: The Majority Party in Nicobarese Politics, subtitled, And How Price Fixing Became a Capitalist Trait. Giles was halted mid-flow during a public speech in which he very vaguely cited Adam Smith in an attempt to support the FBCo monopoly in contrast to Igovian economics, the soon ejected student insisting that Smith would never have supported the Brown Party's government, FBCo's market "success", or the cost externalisation that fed it.
This sort of thing was growing fast in the tiny country, and Brown was trying to ignore it while concentrating on getting NATO bases on his islands to -in Tendulkar's words-, "boost his international prestiege; benefit from more anti-competative aid that will filter through to FBCo; get his hands on new military toys for ill-educated hicks to cite as sign of Nicobarese superiority over the mainland socialists, which will spill-over into more division at home and end up increased security legislation and then in riots that tax-payers have to clean-up after while being told that it's the left's fault for causing trouble; and to strengthen the siege mentality that keeps people behind the Browns when they see F-16s flying over every day and are forced to think about how the reds could come washing over at any minute. Nonsense!"
Reubens and Tendulkar have both joined the Incorporated Free Party and become relatively high-profile figures of controversy as they tried to, "take-back buzzwords like libertarian, Smith, and free-market from the right that has hijacked them" earning much support while others criticise gaffes such as Tendulkar's assertion that, "We are facing the same struggle in Nicobarese capitalism as the Igovians faced with Bolshevik socialism" which won him the support of probably all of six or seven people in the Incorporated States and steeled twenty thousand against him inside the gun-rack laden, flag-draped walls of their cellars.
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Free Party makes gains in local legislature; Browns steel selves for coming general election...
Fewer than four hundred thousand souls -Christian, Hindu, and Muslim- inhabited the many tiny islands that stretched out on the Bay of Bengal between the Indian powers to the west and the chaos of Bonstock and Marimaia collapsed to the east. It was not an enviable position for an authoritarian and moralistic but hopelessly corrupt capitalist representative democracy to inhabit.
Since coming to power almost three full terms previously and uniting the disperate Andamans with Nicobarese authority, President Eustace F.Brown had vastly increased his personal fortune and monopolised ISAN's small but successful economy while trying several times to expand his governmental reach beyond the archipelagos of home.
His attempt to annex the Laccadive (or Lakshadweep) islands had been met by the forces of then authoritarian socialist Beth Gellert and had ended in bloody failure as his Nicobarese Marines were cut-off from their distant bases and superior forces crushed their isolated ranks. Since then, the luckless Marines had run into trouble closer to home as stone age Sentinelese tribes proved more than unwilling to allow their island's proper incorporation into the States.
Many Nicobarese were growing a little tired of the Brown government's antics as it sunk resources into arming against communist hordes that could if they'd desired snuff-out any degree of resistance ISAN could ever hope to offer, and passed more and more legislation against the threat posed by communist spies and insurgent cells that were supposed to be crawling through the jungles like rats through Liberation's sewers.
---
The Brown Party's policies were to some about as inspirational as the ruling body's name. While they whipped-up reactionary gun-nuts into a frenzy of milita activity and plastic-flag-waving and their police roughed-up Indians and natives increasingly identified with mainland socialism, Nicobarese libertarians increasingly felt alienated from the nation's political life. Men like Samuel Reubens and Johnathen Tendulkar considered that they'd never actually met a communist, and grew increasingly frustrated with the perception of these people as the opposition in Brown's Incorporated States.
When they tried to indicate that Igovians were not the alternative in Andaman and Nicobar, but that the Incorporated Free Party was, they generally would be told to, "go back to Russia!" in Reubens' case, or to, "go back to India, Paki" in Tendulkar's, which vexed and confused both in roughly equal measure.
Both men had begun to write and speak on Free Party issues, and the authorities were starting finally to take notice, especially since Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors at Brown's omnipresent FBCo and -coincidentally- a prominent member of the Brown Party, Mr.Giles, was heckled by a National University student brandishing a copy of the pair's book, Brownsheviks: The Majority Party in Nicobarese Politics, subtitled, And How Price Fixing Became a Capitalist Trait. Giles was halted mid-flow during a public speech in which he very vaguely cited Adam Smith in an attempt to support the FBCo monopoly in contrast to Igovian economics, the soon ejected student insisting that Smith would never have supported the Brown Party's government, FBCo's market "success", or the cost externalisation that fed it.
This sort of thing was growing fast in the tiny country, and Brown was trying to ignore it while concentrating on getting NATO bases on his islands to -in Tendulkar's words-, "boost his international prestiege; benefit from more anti-competative aid that will filter through to FBCo; get his hands on new military toys for ill-educated hicks to cite as sign of Nicobarese superiority over the mainland socialists, which will spill-over into more division at home and end up increased security legislation and then in riots that tax-payers have to clean-up after while being told that it's the left's fault for causing trouble; and to strengthen the siege mentality that keeps people behind the Browns when they see F-16s flying over every day and are forced to think about how the reds could come washing over at any minute. Nonsense!"
Reubens and Tendulkar have both joined the Incorporated Free Party and become relatively high-profile figures of controversy as they tried to, "take-back buzzwords like libertarian, Smith, and free-market from the right that has hijacked them" earning much support while others criticise gaffes such as Tendulkar's assertion that, "We are facing the same struggle in Nicobarese capitalism as the Igovians faced with Bolshevik socialism" which won him the support of probably all of six or seven people in the Incorporated States and steeled twenty thousand against him inside the gun-rack laden, flag-draped walls of their cellars.
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Free Party makes gains in local legislature; Browns steel selves for coming general election...