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Decades ago the tiny Draco Ltd. grew byond its single office as a small time distributor of novelties into the Draco Corporation, a nation wide distributor that had just begun diversifying into production and manufacture . Not long afterwards it bid and won a government contract to upgradeand mantain the Mondothian National Rail Lines. Just this year the Draco Corporation has expanded substantially into the Draco Conglomerate, a collection of Mondoths big businesses assembled under the Banner of William Drace who owned Draco Ltd. all those years ago and coaxed it into the brilliant multi-national corporate entity it has become.

Mr. Drace's vision has expanded from that single office and has set his gaze on the world market place by establishing corporate offices, factories distribution centers and special subsidies in your nation.

"So what?" I can see you asking yourselves, "why should I care if this upstart wants in to my national market?"
"What, " in other words, can the Draco Conglomerate do for me?

Glad you asked, The Draco Conglomerate offers unrivaled opportunities for foreign investment, Our factories and distribution centers hire 99% local labor and produce every day goods at low prices while the Draco Conglomerate itself takes a personal interest in host economies, boosting them with investment and jobs.

And It's not just the economy that Mr. Drace's company helps, The Draco Conglomerate is committed to a better future through public works and charities, committing money towards local charities as well as creating affordable housing, work programs for the homeless and other unemployed, as well as refuges for victims of domestic abuse and orphaned children while promoting social policies to reduce the need for both.

If you're interestedin a Better life for your people, contact the Draco Conglomerate today, we can help.

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Ring ring.....

"Hello Draco Ltd. , receptionist speaking"


"This is the Office of the Logothe of the Drome, of the Holy Empire of Intracircumcordei. We just saw an advert on Draco Ltd. and ICCD is interested. We would like Draco Ltd. to heavily invest in ICCD. "

ICCD would like to extend Draco Ltd. to feel open to import goods and materials, and to establish factories as we invite almost all foreign parties to do so, applicable to the law. Further talks in this matter are posible"


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We are very much interested in pursuing this opportunity, Draco Conglomerate representatives are ready to meet at your convenience to discuss terms.

OOC: Have you considered Geocities tohost your factbook? I use it for all of my nationstates stuff and it's never failed me yet.

OOC: nope, I could start a webpage, I have a self hosted page via no-ip however I tend to be on and offline. I could, however, I'm making small changes here and there pretty often.. and havn't totally ended making content, estalbishing the structure etc.. it is a posibility though. Eventually I'll get a around to a pretty solid basis, I'm still doing a lot of the organization, social etc.. I have to spend some time doing the logistics for order of battle, I know my basic equipment is covered, and main vehicles etc. however I may be making some new changes again and I have a MT/PMT and a LatePMT/FT version. It'll get down eventually I'm not really in a rush. If you have any questions not coveed, as I know my concept and I have a good feel for my own nation etc.. as I have a good idea of how the pieces fit together. All in all i don't feel like spending the time on a geocities site right now as i make small changes pretty frequently, typos editing.. it is just time consuming to do it for anything but when I'm adding to my facts etc.. .. it's a pain in the **# to worry about site security for me right now.. may in a few though

IC:
More words from the logothes aide followed:
" That is great news, why doesn't a delegation from your company come to Xian City to meet with tresury officals here within the Dian Empire to discus the business interest."

That would be excelent, We will send representatives immediately for a meeting, may this begin a long and fruitful relationship between the Conglomerate and the ICCD (right, or do you prefer the long part of your name?)

OOC:ICCD is better unless uber formal or for show. ICCD is the techinal easy type. Would you like to play out the talks?

OOC: I don't really care. If you want to I'll go along.

ooc: well if it doesn't matter either way to you, then you can just tell me how much business you would like what products etc.. and I'll tell you if it is all good, or if there are any issues so it can play as background development as playing out a trade deal is rather labourous if there is no story to it. I'm fine with the business, and in most cases it should be fine.

just get me an idea of what you are looking for, and like i just said I'll tell you if there are any hitches.

OOC: Allright. Mostly the Conglomerate would liek to establish factories and local outlets for non-military goods with a corporate management office somewhere. Typically, Conglomerate factories are accompanied by pre-fab towns for the workers with some form of public transportation (usually trains) to connect hte towns with nearby large cities.Preferably the factories would be located with access to shipping as well, but not necesarily, esp. if a single large port could be established and have the goods for export be transported there by train.
Finally, the Conglomerate has a history of establishing and managing things like Domestic Abuse shelters and orphanges as wella s work programs for the homeless. These ma or may not be secretly used as recruiting grounds for Mondothian sleeper agents (probably for export to other nations) but only if enough people mkae use of the shelters/work programs that one or two could be recruited without raising any eyebrows, though it might be fun to RP the reprecussions of any eye-brow raising.

We are fine with you producing non military goods.

Most basic items food, water shelter, clothing, and basic needs supplies are supplied to the population as part of their citizenship rights.

Public transit is managed as well and there are "electic and hybrid rail systems within the major urban locations.

Factories have to be located underground, there is a high degree of automation for most factories. With technical workers being the most highly employed, press operators, robotics engineers etc..

There are areas that are not yet taken and if you are willing to put the resources into connecting the plant to the urban network that shouldn't be an issue, the state can coordinate with you in that endevour at cost..

The lakes area seems like the most ideal for your needs we recommended West Great Lakes Urban Zone or on the outscirts there is a well established port there.

Although we welcome private enterprise in social programs the state runs their own social programs through the human resource and development ministry in coordination with the emergency services division and/or the interiors infrastucture ministry. Once again like establishing a factory, social projects are much the same, and Dian Citizens that work at the social centers may even be entitiled to social credits.

OOC: Just so you know though, you may be double agented, a very large majority of the people work for the government, and corporate businesses are throughly inspected, an abundance of sensors are located in many areas, and although it is not 100% you could be monitored, as telephone calls and computer communications generally are (like the NSA). It is posible though depending on your technique you could operate as a spy recruiting center.
However, dians are generally very happy with the government and have many privledges.. but it is posible.

We could RP it. Learning a bit about ICCD if you havn't already may help.. it is very socialist, there is a gray market and private sector, but a large chunk of both of them are run by government agents.

OOC: Sounds good to me. Any 'recruits' through the social services probably wouldn't be ordered to spy on their own nation though, but be encouraged to emigrate elsewhere, possibly convinced they are in fact serving ICCD. But like I said, very few if any people will be recruited anyway. Right now I don't need any foreign spies so maybe later. I'm getting ready to do something 'interesting' with mondoth that might jump the numbers enough to get your government interested in what exactly the Conglomerate does in those shelters.

We will of course comply with all regulations for the establishment of our factories and social projects adn are perfectly willing to spend the money and effort in connecting our factories and worker towns witht he main urban network. If the market is not good enough in ICCD to make the factories self supporting, then products may be exported to more profitable markets.

After seeing an advertisement in his evening paper, Leader Milo dcides to contact 'Draco Limited', and sent a very brief message:

"We are very interrested in knowing the terms and conditions of the Draco coglomerate"

OOC: Sounds good to me. Any 'recruits' through the social services probably wouldn't be ordered to spy on their own nation though, but be encouraged to emigrate elsewhere, possibly convinced they are in fact serving ICCD. But like I said, very few if any people will be recruited anyway. Right now I don't need any foreign spies so maybe later. I'm getting ready to do something 'interesting' with mondoth that might jump the numbers enough to get your government interested in what exactly the Conglomerate does in those shelters.

We will of course comply with all regulations for the establishment of our factories and social projects adn are perfectly willing to spend the money and effort in connecting our factories and worker towns witht he main urban network. If the market is not good enough in ICCD to make the factories self supporting, then products may be exported to more profitable markets.


iccd's economy is very vibrant (OOC: of course) (even if using NS stats it is frightening right now, but every so often it receeds to all consuming) There are a number of major markets, general fruits, fibres, methane, underground consturction, raw materials (produced from geothermal core (lava flow) furnaces), desalination and thermal harvesting and other energy markets are also key. , different geographic areas have different markets.

There is a key foreign import market for luxury goods, iccd also imports garbage and industrial/commercial scrap in large quantities, inlcuding dead bodies. ICCD also stockpiles large quantities of crude oil, even though major fuel is Hydrogen and Methane. Altough coal is also used in O emissions systems such as greenhouse and carbon cycle. ICCD also imports a few key items in the technology sector but prefers it's own homegrown military industries, except in specific space technologies.


All in all there is room for luxury goods, as the industry is not well supported for cost effectiveness in luxury good businesses, and instead only non cost prohibitive luxury markets flurish domestically or for export. Creating a profitability in importation of luxury goods from low cost forieng markets,especially specialized technologies, entertainment electronics etc.. that go above the standard Handheld computer given to every citizen.

There are no markets for cheap PDA's, basic cellphones, cheap watches, etc.. as they are all provided in the handheld given to every citizen, for their schooling etc.. ICCD has it's own computer components production sites.

Fashion and other items do, have market, however there is competition with local fashion designers. There is a good market for novelty items as well,as ICCD doesn't have any mass production of novelty items.

the drug trade is not very profitable here, except in unique and rare drugs, since all drugs are "legal" and the area prime for crops like Marihuana and spirits, tobaco coca etc.. all naturually derived drugs are cheaply available. chemically processed drugs and highprofile designer drugs are not overly produced domestically, nor is there a great market for them, in generall, but there may be potential for one, however the population tend to use "traditional herbally derived drugs" even in their pharmacology or medicinal usages. Generally drugs are veiwed as part of the ceremonial cultural system, rather then fad or a subculture, or illicit activity. Although there are some professional restrictions.

so yes there is room for profitability, as far as shelters etc.. there is a grey market, and there is a "ethinic immigrant" population which is in general a mosaic strucuture with different ethinic communities that may not have citizenship in full, thus citizenship access to specific services for free.

so there would be potential if the costs were lower, but in general the shelters would be useful for migrant workers or immigrants, refugees etc.. hich may fit your idea of setting up spying operations.

The citizenry except for "exiles" woudln't see much benifit in the shelters.

So really the factories and shelters would seem to appeal most to new immigrants and "exiles" (sorta like criminals, but there are no prisons in ICCD just exile, death, or release) exile is imposed on a jurisdiction, but repeat offenses and a shared information system make repeat offenses more likely to carry the death penalty rather than exile, but it would depend on the offence. (for instance a minor offense may take more repeats for death ) meanwhile the exile could still be given for the whole of the empire rather than just a sub jurisdiction, in leui of a death sentance. it is seen why exiles may find benifit in dealing with a third party rather then the state for settling back in, especially if it gave future travel posibilities. (Although there is a new state program to export exiles to partner countries.

OOC: So I get to put your criminals to work producing luxury goods and spies? I like it!

IC:
Reply to 'Leader Milo'
From: The International Relations offices of the Draco Conglomerate

The Draco Conglomerate is committed to producing quality goods and improving the condiitons of local workers through providing jobs and social services. All we require is is your invitation to begin establishing factories, distribution centers and social works projects including work shelters for the homeless, domestic abuse shelters and orhpanages. The Draco Conglomerate is comitted to improving the communities that support our business.
Thank you for you time.

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Diplomatic Reply
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To: Draco Conglomerate
From: PROHT
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Sorry, but we do not feel as if we require such economic assistance, as we have more than sufficient joycamps and factories to meet our own needs.

Is there anything else to offer in exchange for anything?

Leader Milo