NationStates Jolt Archive

Allanean Arterus

From combat aircraft, from cargo aircraft, thousands of soldiers poured. There were five Airborne Divisions, ten Mechanized Infantry, and ten Armored divisions sent – not to fight, of course, but to merely claim the immense territories of Allanean Arterus – henceforth to be called the state of Pobeda – for the United States of Allanea.

And the United States government announced to the world's other governments:

We of the United States of Allanea are now announcing the Allanean Territory of Pobeda our newest humanitarian project. Here is it's purpose. We request all nations that still have prison punishments for any of the following crimes, to instead offer their citizens a choice between a prison term and a deportation to Allanea, to Pobeda. Here, these people will be given a land claim of 160 acres, to work as they see fit.

Here are the offenses which are part of the program:

1.Any and all violations of gun laws, drug laws, censorship laws, ant-gambling laws, and any other victimless-crime offenses.
2.Any and all other 'undesireables' targeted by your nation for race-based, species-based, or religion-based 'population control' measures, if you know what we mean.
3.Any and all people punished for crimes such as 'insider-trading', violations of anti-trust laws, minimum wage laws, zoning laws and environmental/species protection laws.

All such people will be granted refugee status in Allanea, and given land in the Territory of Pobeda.

Another message was sent to the world's corporations

Would you like to set up a factory in the territory of Pobeda? You will be granted 100 square kilometers of land (in a 10*10 square), and you will access to loads and loads of cheap labor. All you have to do is come! No regulations, no minimum wage, no union protection laws, and lockouts are legal!

And so, project Pobeda began.

To the Appropriate Official of the United States of Allanea for the Arrangement of Deportation of Outlaws,

In this my Bishopric of Hautavano, there be many criminals and other such reptiles that refuse to pay tithes. They are locked in jail, where they will wait for their damned lives to run out. I would like to have them sent to this land known as Pobeda, formerly Arterus, although I have sent this piece of correspondence to make sure that both parties are in agreement. This is because, as you might know from experience with these types, those who pay tithes are often skeptics, and will not pay tithes even when they are deported to Pobeda. I was not sure if you wanted this kind of people in your land.

Signed,
The Holy Diocese Bishop Teodoro Paltino, of the Bishopric of Hautavano

Official Allanean Response

On the contrary, good Bishop. These qualities will be extremely useful fo our needs.

Official Allanean Response

On the contrary, good Bishop. These qualities will be extremely useful fo our needs.

To the Appropriate Official of the United States of Allanea for the Arrangement of Deportation of Outlaws,

This deed is quite honourable of you. I hope these criminals will not disturb your land with too much ungodliness, and know that the Bishopric of Hautavano will be the better for it.

The Holy Diocese Bishop Teodoro Paltino, of the Bishopric of Hautavano



Over the next few weeks, those who were jailed for not paying their tithes would be unchained and brought out of the courthouses and prisons and to Hautavano's ports, where they would be packed one thousand to a ship and transported to Pobeda.

As the men descended, they were greeted by a man in an Allanean Army uniform. “Greetings! I am Colonel Rammstein, Allanean Armed Forces! It is my duty to greet you to this great country of ours!”

“First of all, let me congratulate you! Under the Territory of Pobeda Act, 2007, you are no longer subjects, prisoners, slaves, or citizens – you are Allanean Freemen! None of the things you did in Haraki and in Cotenshire are even crimes in the United States! Now, Allanea needs settlers, and you need a place to live in – and so, I think, we can all have a deal.”

“You see, strangely enough, the Department of Commerce decided it will help you people, not just by asking your govermnents to send you to Allanea – but by giving you land – 160 acres a man, enough for a small farm. We will also give you a small loan to buy farm equipment – or whatever it is you want. Why do we do this?”

He paused.

“Because we want you to succeed. You understand, Allanea is a capitalist country. We understand that, under capitalism, any person that makes money – note the term to make money, to create wealth – makes everybody else better off, too. More wealth is better.”

“We also know that people who commit crimes like yours probably didn't fit in with the conservative – I'm using the dictionary definition, here, honorable Freemen – with the conservative mold of your country. And guess what – it's such mold-breaking individuals exactly that we need here.”

“You're free to do almost anything with your land, just don't blow up nukes on it.” He laughed. “You can make it a farm. You can grow marijuana – there's a demand for 'skunk' weed up in the Mainland about now if you can grow it right. You can open a casino or a hotel. Whatever.”

“Now maybe this sort of stuff is not up your alley. Well, there'll be a few foreign corporations opening factories here soon, and they'll offer jobs, too. There isn't any minimum wage or labor laws, but with your 160-acre plots to back you, you'll be able to negotiate something, I'm sure. Especially if you start a union.”

He paused.

“Oh, and one more thing. Under the Pobeda Territory Act, the territory is exempt from Federal taxes for the next twenty-five years.”

Most of the uniformed man's speech went over the heads of the Cotenshirish deportees, who were mostly illiterate and found this economic talk about things like capitalism hard to grasp. They were, however, very excited about getting 160 acres of free land. The Cotenshirish deportees, who numbered about three thousand, immediately began asking where their land was.

(OOC: Are these 160 acre plots going to be next to each other?)

OOC: There's several clusters of plots in different places, and there's going to be a modicum of choice. The continent is after all humongous.