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Golden Republic (Indiastan/Ottoman) 22nd Century (closed)

Commonalitarianism
21-10-2006, 12:37
Timeline: India

2010- India makes massive investments in improving agriculture and alternative energy.

2015- India starts a commercial space program to launch satellites into orbit.

2020- India builds first mechanized infantry suit surprising the world.

2025- Kashmir accords take place officially dividing the country in half between India and Pakistan. Border tensions quiet down.

2029- Border dispute occurs between China and Pakistan over water rights. India forms a secret alliance to prevent Chinese incursions into Pakistan.

2030- Thailand fearing invasion from the PAC joins the Indian Economic Zone officially ceding economic and military control to India.

2035- China moves against Pakistan, but India moves troops to Pakistani border preventing invasion.

2036-- Large areas between India and China are turned into a demilitarized zone with fences, mine fields, and soldiers.

2037-- Massive desalinization program is started to provide water to India and Pakistan.

2040-- India creates paramilitary border guard to prevent massive influx of immigrants from the MEC which has become increasingly barren and resourceless.

2050-- India builds a small commercial space hotel for tourists. Starts production of space based manufacturing, computer chips and medicines.

2055-- Pakistan asks India for help securing its borders against desperate immigrants from the various wars.

2060-- Indiastan unites combining Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, and Thailand.

2065-- A charismatic leader rises from the Congress Party, Nehru Khan and consolidates his position as the leading politician in the nation, establishing a political dynasty. He proclaims Indiastan as the Maurya empire reborn and creates a national holiday Ashoka day.

2070-- A period of economic growth occurs and India begins exporting energy products, crops, and space manufactured goods.

2078-- The PAC invades Thailand assuming it will be easy to hold. Using fast mechanized infantry divisions, fast armored atvs, and missile platforms, India overruns the PAC positions driving them out.

2079-- The PAC retaliates with biological and chemical weapons on a massive scale. Calcutta and New Delhi are hit with pneumatic plague killing over 2 million people. Chemical weapons are used across the countryside wiping out multiple villages. Wheat rust and yellow rice rot wipe out most of India's crops leading to large scale starvation.

2080-- A secret war occurs between the PAC and Indiastan. While India and the PAC clash at the borders, Indiastan supports an insurgency in Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal pouring cheap disposable weapons from the Ottoman Confederacy into the insurgents hands.

2081-- To prevent plague from spreading into the middle east, the Ottoman Confederacy provides India with large amounts of medicine. Also in exchange for Indian military and energy technology, the Ottoman Confederacy provides food to Indiastan.

2082-- In peace accords with the PAC, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Nepal are ceded to Indiastan.

2085-- Massive land reclamation projects are introduced to reclaim land lost to chemical weapons. New genetically engineered crops are introduced resistant to biological weapons.

2090-- The United Health Organization is founded to deal with the problems of birth defects caused by chemical and biological weapons. To prevent an overload of problems, research on genetic testing and gene therapy is started.

2095-- A trade pact and military exchanges are signed with the Ottoman Confederacy.

Timeline: Ottoman Confederacy

2078-- In response to being refused entry to the European Union, Turkey forms a counterbalancing organization convincing Albania, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia, and Moldova to join. Joint military exercises are performed to show they can defend against the RFSR.

2080-- The Ottoman Confederacy puts its support behind Indiastan in the PAC and Indiastan war building an arms manufacturing industry to support Indiastan and other countries.

2081-- The Ottoman confederacy sends large amounts of medical supplies and food to India in exchange for Indian space technology and energy technology.

2083-- As the European Union fragments, the Ottoman Confederacy takes advantage of the problems and starts opening its door to trained technicians and scientists from the fragmenting union. They absorb scientists, software, and other people. A small scale trade war ensues.

2085-- There is a massive influx of refugees from various fighting states. They use selective immigration to increase their technical abilities. Arkema, the French company which makes Fullerenes moves to the Ottoman Confederacy.

2088-- Indiastan and the Ottoman Confederacy hold talks about dealing with the problem of radical Islam in their states. They are both tied together because they are partially Islamic republics and have been having trouble with both immigration, poverty, and other issues.

2083-- A military pact is signed between Indiastan and the Ottoman Confederacy to protect against aggression from the European Union, the RFSR, and the PAC.

2090-- The Ottoman Confederacy begins giving food aid to the MEC in return for good relations.

2093-- The first stirring of the idea of the United Republic occur with an infamous paper in a small university near Ankara, called the Golden Republic a case for building a united Ottoman Confederacy and Indiastan. It takes root in the countryside spreading like wildfire.

2095-- A popular political party led by Mehmed Pasha takes office. One of its major platforms is a the Golden Republic.

2100-- The Ottoman Confederacy and Indiastan start the process of union.