Campbell Island Group
16-05-2006, 17:50
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Last Castle of the South
The Campbell Island Group consists of one main island and a number of tiny islets and stacks. It lies around 700km south of New Zealand, to which the islands formerly (and still disputedly) belong, and is now populated by 78,120 mostly first-generation immigrants, with just a handfull of babies having been born so far on the main island.
The people live under the leadership of the controversial President Hernando Hallmar, who continues to face accusations of brainwashing and kidnap of foreigners, mostly impressionable runaway teenagers whom several families and journalists claim have been used to build a loyal population on the remote little islands of just 115sq.km.
Preliminary investigations indicate promise for off-shore oil and gas fields on and around the Campbell Plateau, but the tiny and largely unrecognised nation has not the means to carry-out extensive prospecting, let alone extraction.
Venus Bay (the nation's capital) wishes to negotiate contracts for exploration of its territory. Cash is required to arm the nation's small defence forces and for investment in light industry on an island badly lacking in infrastructure and employment opporunities after rapid population growth (Campbell Island: from nought to seventy-eight thousand in under a decade!), and so areas around the islands are being offered for exploration.
It is hoped that foreign firms will pay anything from a few hundred thousand dollars to perhaps tens of millions depending on the number of wildcat wells they wish to sink in search of viable reserves. Depending on the size of resulting finds, secondary contracts for extraction will be negotiated.
Interested parties are invited to approach the Office of the President.
Last Castle of the South
The Campbell Island Group consists of one main island and a number of tiny islets and stacks. It lies around 700km south of New Zealand, to which the islands formerly (and still disputedly) belong, and is now populated by 78,120 mostly first-generation immigrants, with just a handfull of babies having been born so far on the main island.
The people live under the leadership of the controversial President Hernando Hallmar, who continues to face accusations of brainwashing and kidnap of foreigners, mostly impressionable runaway teenagers whom several families and journalists claim have been used to build a loyal population on the remote little islands of just 115sq.km.
Preliminary investigations indicate promise for off-shore oil and gas fields on and around the Campbell Plateau, but the tiny and largely unrecognised nation has not the means to carry-out extensive prospecting, let alone extraction.
Venus Bay (the nation's capital) wishes to negotiate contracts for exploration of its territory. Cash is required to arm the nation's small defence forces and for investment in light industry on an island badly lacking in infrastructure and employment opporunities after rapid population growth (Campbell Island: from nought to seventy-eight thousand in under a decade!), and so areas around the islands are being offered for exploration.
It is hoped that foreign firms will pay anything from a few hundred thousand dollars to perhaps tens of millions depending on the number of wildcat wells they wish to sink in search of viable reserves. Depending on the size of resulting finds, secondary contracts for extraction will be negotiated.
Interested parties are invited to approach the Office of the President.