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Deutsche Demokratische Republik
German Democratic Republic

National Anthem: Auferstanden aus Ruinen

Area: 108,333 km2
Population: 17,311,286
Density: 159.79/km2

GDP: $265.39 billion
Per Capita: $15,330
GDP Growth (2007): 4.2%
Industrial Production: +6.6%
Inflation Rate: +2.5%
Electricity: (including East Berlin) 40,150,000 kW capacity; 214,000 million kWh produced, 12,361 kWh per capita
Industries: telecommunications and computer hardware, metal fabrication, chemicals, brown coal, shipbuilding, machine building, food and beverages, textiles, petroleum

Exports: $66.3 billion
Imports: $51.2 billion
Foreign debt: $25.55 billion

Budget: revenues $159.3 billion; expenditures $159.2 billion, including capital expenditures of $40 billion

Military manpower fit for service: 3,489,021 males, 3,387,244 females
Military expenditures:$7.965 billion
Branches: National People's Army, Border Troops, Ministry of State Security Guard Regiment, Air and Air Defense Command, People's Navy

Capital: East Berlin
52°31N, 13°24E
Government: Socialist Republic
Head of State: Sabine Bergmann-Pohl
Head of Government: Hans Modrow
Secretary of the SED: Egon Krenz

1 GDR mark (M) = 100 pfennige

GDR marks (M) per US$1--6.00 (2007), 6.30 (2006), 5.70 (2005), 3.64 (2004)
Languages: German, Russian, Polish

Fiscal year: calendar year

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History from 1989

The GDR managed to survive its economic decline in the 1980's through successful implementation of the Schürer-Papier, an economic programme developed in 1989 that boosted exports to stabilize debt levels. It succeeded, but at a high cost; East German living standards declined from 1989-1995 and social turmoil reached record highs, with demonstrations in Leipzig and Dresden degenerating in to bloody riots. However, these were suppressed by the People's Police and units from the National People's Army in a series of actions in late 1995 that left over 1,000 dead.

Following this crisis, Erich Honecker was forced to resign by the Politburo and was replaced by Egon Krenz. One of his most notable moves was to gradually float the East German Mark, an event which caused a significant decline in its value but also increased overall trade and foreign investment in the GDR, boosting GDP growth to its strongest levels since the 1970's. He also refocused East German research and development in to computing and telecommunications, launching a highly successful program with Czechoslovakia and Hungary in 1997 that would place the three countries among the top 10 nations for technology research. This significantly boosted exports to the rest of the world and allowed East Germany to remove some of the restrictions of the Schürer-Papier, boosting GDP and living standards considerably.

Starting in 1999, Krenz also launched a major program not only to boost communications ties with the west but also modernize the entire East German communications network. Since then, the country has seen solid economic growth, but this growth in living standards is also building pressures from within the country for more economic liberalization and a shift towards a true multiparty democracy.

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Embassies in the GDR:

Worker's Republic of Mexico
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
People's Republic of Albania
Yugoslavian Socialist Federal Republic

Ought to bump this in case any Warsaw Pact nations are on.

OCC I am but im not done with fact book, ill save this for tommarrow

Ought to bump this in case any Warsaw Pact nations are on.

{{OOC: Can I buy some planes today or tomorrow?}}

{{OOC: Can I buy some planes today or tomorrow?}}

OOC: The GDR didn't really produce much in the way of aircraft. We sell technology components like computers and microchips. Planes are more of a USSR product.

OOC: The GDR didn't really produce much in the way of aircraft. We sell technology components like computers and microchips. Planes are more of a USSR product.

{{OOC: Yea, but there's are made of wood. :p. So, a trade agreement? Only 13% tariff and tax on oil we sell you and we purchase technology from you? Assuming you have the Leopard 2. The FRSN is having a hard time getting rid of its Centurions here. Hell, I'll buy a Merkava if I could find a seller.}}

The People's Democratic Liberation Army would like to have 100 of its men train with your Special forces

Officail Request:

The Worker's Republic of Mexico requests that these two great Communist nations work together through diplomacy. We hope you accept us sending ambassitors, and we welcome you to send ambassitors to Mexico city.

Official Soviet Communique

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics would like to establish an embassy in your fine nation.

The Peoples Republic of Albania would like to re-establish relations with East Germany. when we split with the USSR and the warsaw pact in 1968 and because of Enver Hoxha's Schismatic behaviour we lost a lot of diplomatic contacts. We would like to Re-establish contacts with the DDR and we have one request and that is you would help a comrade out by sending some engineers and technicuians to work in Albania to help in some of our long term projects such as powerplants and damns. As you know Albania's stalinist and isolationist nature has held us back for over 6 decades and we have some of the lowest living standards in europe. We also want you to know that we will not establish relations with the USSR which we are still quite anti soviet ever since Khruschev and his secret speech in 1958 and that doesnt seem to change anytime soon. ALSO we still have not got any relations with Yugoslavia which we have labbled Crypto Capitralist and has turned its back on the path of building socialism, we hope you will also be able to join us inn denouncing the revisionists that have infiltrated the communist parties around the world

From: German Democratic Republic
To: People's Republic of Albania

We would be more than willing to send our engineers to help our friends in Albania. The eventual triumph of communism is built by the collective labor of all socialist nations, and as a fellow nation built on the principles of Marx, Lenin, and Engels we are willing to provide whatever is necessary to help your nation develop its economy and move forward towards our collective goal.

Engineers, construction and technological equipment, and economic aid will all be provided to develop your economy, and we would be willing to discuss imports of raw materials as well as hiring guest workers from your nation for our own economic needs.

Regards,
Egon Krenz, Secretary of the SED

The People's Democratic Liberation Army would like to have 100 of its men train with your Special forces

We accept your request and will have your men train with our own special forces at NVA bases in our country. We will provide lodging, equipment, and supplies during their training and will train them in whatever weapons you feel these forces require.

In addition, military advisors can be provided to train more of your troops, and we may be able to negotiate weapons sales through the USSR.

Yugoslavia would like to open and Embassy in Berlin. Your representative is naturally also welcomed to Belgrad. Hopely this would benefit us both, in terms of strengthening our relations both politically and economically.

Further discussions about trade - your information technology for our heavy industry products - could also perhaps be opened in the near future?


Yours Sincerely;

Yugoslavian Foreign Ministry

German Democratic Republic

We recognize the nation of Yugoslavia and would be willing to discuss economic relations between our two countries. We have need for heavy industrial goods and would be interested in discussing a trade agreement.

ob's rauf, ob's runter geht die stufen,
mein freund, das liegt in deiner hand,
fuhlst du furs aufwarts dich berufen,
hast du den richt'gen weg erkannt.

(uphill or downhill now that is the question
the answer my friend is up to you.
if you have chosen uphill then congradulations
you have chosen the right thing to do)

OOC: this is part of this small east german propaganda booklet i have telling you how to live and giving you 2 chooses to live by. i cant be botherd typing it all out so i just typed the first little picture.

Thank you we would like to train in quick light attack force

The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya wishes to exchange embassies with its northern brothers.