NationStates Jolt Archive

The FeuernLeind, 2039
John Hilderbrandt pulled himself up over the last of the sharp obsidian rock, the horizen stretching out below for miles ahead. Like a realism painter using perspective, his gaze immediately drew itself to a large black spot on the painting. It was the charred remains of houses, offices, skyscrapers and parks. It was the remains of former Svedethleinds capitol city, Svede.

The late 2000's to early 2010's had been a disastor for Germany. World War Three had ignited with every political analyst looking back on the Motherlands track record. The Internet had finally transformed communications forever, beginning with the debut of the Quantam computer, and ending with the Universal Language Act of 2009, which made it compulsive for every househole within Industrial UN countries t oown a home terminal connected to the World Wide Web. Language began transforming at a phenominal rate because of this, and it became common in the mid to late 2010's to hear five different languages spoken within a single Dialect.

Germany was one of the countries participating in this act. The German government began signing contracts with Intel, Red Hat and Hewlett Packard to manufacture these specialised terminals, capable only of Internet applications, word processing and image manipulation. Eventually, Red Hat in fringed by taking peices of code from the late Windows Vista and using it in it's special internet operating system. Because of the contract, the German Government had to pay the losses in court, which reached around 150 million Euros. After which, they paid Red Hat an additional 2.5 billion to come up with another Operating System. The manufacturing of the millions of computer terminals costed an even more additional 10.68 billion, and an even more 15.42 billion a year for the free internet access that was mandatory,l as part of the Universal Language Act. Germany, as of 2010, was in debt.

Similar problems arose in other countries, but were quickly counteracted by laws intended to prevent such a crash. Germany, however, had few laws governing this. Because of this, taxes soared to an all time high, and many tariffs were imposed on imports. This angered many citizens, and panicked the German Government. They began considering to back out of the contracts and the Universal Language Act, but threats from the UN silenced their ideas. So, in a sixth month period, the German Government began to cut spending in military and education. Many people became uneducated because of this, and those oh-so-costly Quantam Terminals started to become useless.

Germany finally went to major Numismatists and Economicists for advice, and commisioned them to create a plan to reform the nations economy, which was an indirect idea for handling the money problem.

This is where the conflict begins.

The group finally decided several things. One, Germany should raise Tariffs extremely high for all personal computer imports. This seemed like a very good idea at the time, but would prove fatal in the end.

Two, the group wanted germany to pass several laws and reforms they had prepared, called the German De-Universalization Act, which separated germany from the Euroean exchange unit (Euro) and made a new currency solely for Germany. The act would then begin a deal which would attempt to bring the value of Germanies Dollars up, and try to keep it at a certain value. This, too, would prove fatal in the end.

Third, the act would decrease spending in Education and Public Transport, as many people now began to have mnay more Online Jobs and College courses, so they spent more time at home and less time outside. This increased Obesity, and to combat this Germany branched out more programs in its military. They saw this as an oppertunity to prepare for war and try to increase physical fitness (the beginning of World War Three had already begun, although it was only a minor conflict at the time between the U.S., Iran and North Korea).

These acts, when finally signed into law in 2010, it angered other countries as well as the citizens of Germany. People began protests all around the country, usually lasting for days on end. Some protests ended violently, with the military intervening. One such protest ending horribly, with riots breaking out in Munich. The government, not knowing what to do, called for help.

German troops stormed the rioting cities on Febuary 3, 2011, and began to advance apon the crowds, throwing teargass and pepperspray pellets into the crowds in an effort to forcibly quell them.

Several of the protestors searched for higher ground to avoid the Gases. Watching from the rooftops, they videotaped the violencefrom midway to finish. More than 815 people were arrested, 4 were killed and 35 were severely injured.

The footage was Broadcast around the motherland in an attempt to raise contempt against the German Government.