NationStates Jolt Archive

It took the Engineers and Specialized Contractors of the Fourth Reich over five years to design and construct the archetype of the Great Eurasian Line, which even then stretched from Central Asia, reaching as far as the Easternmost corner of Kazakhstan, all the way to the capital of Belarus, Minsk. Despite the fact that it was roughly half the size as it is now, the archetype still connected two continents using the same trade route.

Today, the Line has expanded and now links three different continents as well as many different regions of the world together under one trade network, which include: Central Asia, Northern Europe, West Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Mainland Europe, and Western Russia. Though many of the countries who have agreed to share the same trade routes and share the natural resources each have, many of them vary greatly in political outlook but share a similar mindstate about how economics should work. That is, that global politics and the global market have their own separate places and times.

Even in the beginning of its development, German Economists predicted the Great Eurasian Line to be the greatest, single, global tool for global economics. Those German Economists even predicted the Line's ability to constantly evolve and grow, given the simple concept and frame it was built on: One line of trade, economical growth, wealth, and communication can connect multiple countries on different continents under one flag of unity and prosperity.

Those German Economists were correct, as now the Great Eurasian Line has expanded from just a transportation network - used to ship oil and petroleum from the Fourth Reich's Central Asian territories to Europe - into a tool used for many different nations to trade and communicate with. Each nation involved with the Line now sees the importance of global communication to the strength of the market. Even being listed by a Pantheaan Think Tank as one of the Manmade Wonders of the World, the Great Eurasian Line is more than just a powerful economic module. Quite the contrary, it now connects the nations that are involved with it under the same school of thought regarding the global market, global politics, and their own wealth.

Now, the primary purpose of the Great Eurasian Line is to create wealth, prosperity, strength, and growth to every nation under its name...

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Territories of the Great Eurasian Line:

Germany
Archangelsk Oblast
Poland
United Kingdom
Turkey
France
Kalmykia Oblast
Ireland
Norway
Gorno-Altay Oblast
Moldova
Iran
Italy
Komi Republic [Russia]
Ukraine
Krasnodar Kray [Russia]
Belgium
Kazakhstan
Pakistan
Bryansk Oblast
Arabia
Kyrgyzstan
Iceland
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Iraq
Altay Kray [Russia]
Algeria
Macedonia
Syria
Kahntia-Mansia Oblast
Netherlands
Leningrad Oblast
Greece
Albania
Khakassia Republic [Russia]
Romania
Altay Republic [Russia]
Bulgaria
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Slovakia
Czech Republic
Novosibirsk Oblast
Austria
Switzerland
Denmark
Komi Oblast
Hungary
Slovenia
Yamalia Oblast
Spain
Portugal
Luxembourg
Arkhangel'sk Oblast
Lithuania
Murmansk Oblast
Estonia
Kaliningrad Oblast
Montenegro
Serbia
Tver' Oblast
Belarus
Agin-Buryat Okrug

These fifty-four* various territories are divided up between several different nations.

* This number may be a miscount

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Nations of the Great Eurasian Line:

The Fourth Reich
Cotland
The United Eastasian Republics
Hirgizstan
Doomingsland
Eurasia
Geneticon
Neuvo Rica
Chronosia
Layarteb
Huahin
Bjornoya
Rome
Hawdawg

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Despite the fact that the Great Eurasian Line only has a total of nine trading partners at this point-in-time, Fourth Reich High Command has already laid-out plans for the Line to expand farther East and farther South, hopefully to include more nations of Africa and the Far East.

The Great Eurasian Line, obviously, no longer is used for the transportation of fuel and other basic resources. Today, it has been established as a trading port for almost all of the natural and manmade resources in the world.

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Natural & Manmade Resources of the Great Eurasian Line:

Petroleum [The Fourth Reich; Hirgizstan]
Diesel [The Fourth Reich]
Bauxite
Gasoline [The Fourth Reich]
Gypsum [Used for blackboard chalk, cement, drywall, plaster, surgical casts, paint filler, dental modes, toothpaste, pharmaceuticals]
Fertile Soils [The Fourth Reich]
Crude Oil [The Fourth Reich]
Refined Oil The Fourth Reich]
Reactor-Grade Uranium [The Fourth Reich]
Mercury
Natural Gas [The Fourth Reich; Hirgizstan]
Rubber [The Fourth Reich]
Diamonds [The Fourth Reich]
Potash
Manganese
Coal [The Fourth Reich]
Rocket Fuel [The Fourth Reich]
Magnesium
Military Armor [The Fourth Reich; used for tanks, IFVs, AAAVs, etc.]
Iron Ore
Sulfur [The Fourth Reich]
Barite [The Fourth Reich; Used in the manufacture of paint, paper, and heavy cement]
Cobalt [The Fourth Reich]
Marble
Plastics [The Fourth Reich]
Copper
Communications Materials [The Fourth Reich; Used for Fiber Optic Cables, Telephone Lines, etc.]
Nickel
Uranium [The Fourth Reich]
Fluorospar
Thermite
Dolomite [The Fourth Reich; New Genetican; Used in the manufacture of cement, iron, and steel]
Phosphorite [The Fourth Reich; Used in strengthening teeth and bones]
Salt [The Fourth Reich]
Fish Oil [The Fourth Reich; Used for the manufacture of rocket fuel, jet fuel, explosives, etc.]
Feldspar [The Fourth Reich; Used for cleaning products and a component of ceramics]
Stainless Steel [The Fourth Reich]
Silicon
Timber [The Fourth Reich; New Genetican]
Aluminum [The Fourth Reich]
Pumice [The Fourth Reich; Used for making concrete]
Bioethanol-16 Fuel [The Fourth Reich; Used in automobiles and military vehicles]
Magnesite
Tungsten [The Fourth Reich]
Jet Fuel [The Fourth Reich]
Germanium
Pharmaceutical Drugs & Supplies [The Fourth Reich]
Graphite
Fish [The Fourth Reich; New Genetican]
Zinc
Chromite
Nuclear Reactors [The Fourth Reich]
Lignite
Construction materials [The Fourth Reich]
Chalk
Silicon [The Fourth Reich]
Gravel
Clay [The Fourth Reich]
Lead
Food supplies [The Fourth Reich]
Peat [The Fourth Reich; Hawdawg; New Genetican; Used as a fuel for domestic heating]
Antimony [Used for batteries, tracer bullets, small arms, matches, medicines, plumbing, anti-friction alloys, cable sheating, glass, paints, bearings in engines, glass, and ceramics]
Pyrite [The Fourth Reich; Used for jewelry]
Naval Supplies & Products [The Fourth Reich]
Sepiolite [The Fourth Reich; Used in oil drilling]
Kaolin [The Fourth Reich; Used in the manufacture of paper]
Tin
Silver[The Fourth Reich]
PVC Piping
Gold [The Fourth Reich]
Amber
Aeronautical Supplies & Products [The Fourth Reich]
Titanium [The Fourth Reich]
Platinum [The Fourth Reich]

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While this list does not encompass the entirety of all products traded on the Great Eurasian Line, it gives an idea of what over four-fifths [4/5] of all traded products actually are.

These lists are meant to give all current and future members of the network an idea of how massive the trading level is between the nations of the Great Eurasian Line and how much one can profit from being involved. Some of these lists may be incomplete or contain mistakes. If they are, please let me know and I will fix them.

The Great Eurasian Line continues to grow and evolve, and all members enjoy a great deal of prosperity. If you are located within a reasonable distance of the Eurasian Line Network and wish to join, please let me know and you will be included.

Huahin would like to confirm our interest in the Eurasian Line project. Serving as a secondary source of raw materials for Huahin, we wish to extend this line down to Armenia and Georgia, providing that the conditions mentioned before are met

Psstttt...Forgot Iceland.

Contact:
To:North Germania
From:Neuvo Rican Bulgarian State Government

We would be interested in investing in the Great Eurasian Line, in order to see and expansion of it into Neuvo Rican Bulgaria. A significant amount of funding has been set aside for such a deal should you be interested.

We of the United Eastasian Republic officially confirm our interest in becoming part of the Eurasian Line. We welcome plans to expand it into the Chinese states, and will provide further investment to extend the line into Choson State (Korea) and Viet State (Vietnam).

New Genetican (which is is modern day Latvia) would certainly be interested in extending the line to within our territories. If this is possible, please reply and let us know what agreement must be made...

OOC: Not to sound stupid or anything, but what exactly is the Great Eurasian Line, is a railway or something?

ooc: NG you can add Archangelsk Oblast and Komi Republic to places where the Great Eurasain Line extends. Silicon, Germanium, fish, grains, and phosphates can also be added to the list of natural resources being shipped on the line. Excellent work man.

The United Federation of Eurasia,officially confirms its interest in becoming part of the Eurasian Line, so just Eurasia can join in the the regions newest economic wonder.

The Fourth Reich officially thanks all of the nations who have shown interest in this project. No nation or land will be excluded from membership. The following regions have been added to the list that the network extends to:

- Armenia
- Bulgaria
- Georgia
- China
- Archangelsk Oblast
- Korea
- Komi Republic
- Vietnam
- Latvia

The newest members are:

Geneticon
Eurasia
The United Eastasian Republics
Neuvo Rica
Huahin


OOC: Spizania - It's a very huge collection of railroads, as large as 65 tracks wide in some areas. As well, the railroad tracks are accompanied by many different huge pipelines that carry natural gas, petroleum, oil, diesel, and gasoline. It has its own security team and police force to protect it against terrorists.

Thanks, Bjornoya! :)

Ottoman Khaif - Please list the regions you want the Line to extend into.

ooc: In time if this extends to the south there could be a connection between the Great Eurasian Line and its African Equivalent, the transportation lines (more sea and air routes than ground routes) being constructed during TATO's Mulungu Project, we could easily connect Europe, Western and Central Asia, and the whole of Africa. Maybe if the far-easterners are really nice we could connect them too and solidify European, Asian, and African trade routes.

Wait for the PEC-GAP, which I will post up tomorrow (hopefully). It will extend very close to North Africa and if all goes well it would be easy to run it into North Africa, with the Eurasian line running along beside it from Kiev.

After receiving a response from the United Eastasian Republics, the Fourth Reich has dedicated the necessary resources and manpower required to extend the Eurasian Network into China and eventually Vietnam and Korea. The significance of the involvement of the United Eastasian States is that East Asia would now be a part of the Trade Network, officially making the entirety of Asia a part of the Line.

Also, the United Eastasian Republics was not the only new nation to become a new member of the Great Eurasian Line. Upon their joining, the Fourth Reich hoped to include Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and India into the trade network and extend the line further into Central Asia and deep into the Middle East. As well as the political and cultural greatness this gives the builder and original creator of the Great Eurasian Line, the Fourth Reich, the resources - both natural and manmade - will expand the versatility and strength of the Trade Network many times over.

Included also in the expansion of the list of nations now involved was the country of Geneticon -- whose territory of Latvia extended the reach of the Line farther into Northeastern Europe. The importance of Geneticon's joining of the Great Eurasian Line was that all of Europe was now connected to the Trade Network.

Huahin, whose territories of Armenia and Georgia, was now too a part of the Line, and his lands in Southern Russia meant that Eastern Europe and West Asia were now directly connected by common borders -- the Black Sea, Armenia & Georgia, and the Caspian Sea. Important resources limited to those areas were now a part of the Trade Network.

Neuvo Rica's lands in Bulgaria being included in the Trade Network meant that, along with Geneticon's lands in Latvia, all of mainland Europe was now connected to the Great Eurasian Line. The natural resources located in Bulgaria were unique to that region and would be a great addition to the Trade Network of the Great Eurasian Line.

Not one of these nations was more important than the others in the list of new countries joining. On the contrary, none of the nations in the Trade Network of the Great Eurasian Line were more important than any of the others. While many of the natural resources traded in the Line were found in many places of the world, each country had its own unique and individual manmade resources to add to the Trade Network that the other nations did not have.

The entire philosophy that supported the Line was that here, global influence did not affect the value of any given nation. What they had to offer did. That meant that the size of their military, how many territories they controlled, and the size of their population were factors only in that they partially contributed to the strength of their trade resources.

Reichskanzler Heydrich Kübler of the Fourth Reich was planning on issuing a request to the Bjornoyan International Stock Exchange to determine the overall economic strength of the Great Eurasian Line in comparison to other economic alliances. Perhaps the world would be entering a new time period, where economic strength determined a nation's alliance. . .

OOC: If you wish to add a manmade or natural resource to the list that is not already there, or if you wish to trade a natural resource that is already up there but does not have your name next to it, please name which one(s) you want me to add and I will include your nation in brackets after the resource to indicate that you are trading it.

Soon, I will add a list of the prices for each resource per unit of measurement, appropriate to the resource (gallon, barrel, pound, liter, etc).

Bjornoya, I put in a request in the last post to have your BISE create a stock value for the Great Eurasian Line. I'd like to have the Line compared in value to the other economic alliances, if any of that is possible for you to do.

New Genetican trades peat, limestone, dolomite, amber, hydropower, wood, and fish.

OOC: Can't trade hydropower, since its determined by your country's landscape, but I'll mark you down for the others.

Important:

If you guys want to receive certain resources, or want to receive certain resources from certain countries, please select which ones and I'll mark you down appropriately on a separate list.

NG, the lands I want have the line go thought are Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and Arabia.

OK, lands you specified added to the list.

Hey NG, are you still commiting to that invasion, and do I get St Pierre et Miquelon now?

By the way, if anyone wants to know what resources their land has, use the CIA Factbook.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

OOC: Id like it to come through Oman, if you add water to the list, remember they think it will become more important than oil eventually. il be exporting oil.