NationStates Jolt Archive

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Population (for RP purposes)= 15,000,000.

National Capitol – Colony City

Province...........Provincial Capital
West Robinson...Newton
Robinson...........Princeton
New Kingsland....Port Royal
Shaw...............Pottersdon
Wiens...............Port Firegrove
Dour................Edwardsville
Mooreland.........Franchburg
Garret..............Habrigtol
Friesland...........Niel

Significant Features to notice on the map:
Solid gray lines in water mark Colony West’s territorial waters
Dotted gray lines in water mark division of provincial waters
Solid gray lines on land mark provincial borders.
Numbers correspond to listing of major cities below.

The islands in the north are the New Mangudai Islands, the largest of which is Kings Island.
The body of water surrounded on three sides by New Kingsland, Robinson, and Wiens is King’s Bay.

Major Cities
Disclaimer: the following information has not been updated since the government took power.
1. North River
This huge city is extremely crowded. It stands astride a river and is mainly constructed of granite. It renown as the beginning point of the Colonial Revolution and its most noteworthy feature is the lavish mausoleum holding the remains of revolutionary leader Johannes Crichton who died from complications form a wound suffered in battle only hours after hearing the news of Colony West’s independence.
2. Richmond
This is a moderately sized city built predominantly of timber and situated on one of the New Mangudai Islands. It is well known for its invariably mild weather. Most of its revenue comes from shipping.
3. Timberport
This relatively small city is built mostly from timber and is Robinson’s economic center. It is well known for the deep divide between the lavish living of its upper class and the squalor its poorer denizens endure. The upper class are mostly self made entrepreneurs in the shipping industry, which is the main source of this city’s revenue. The vast majority of all timber and fruits exported from the north go through this city.
4. Princeton
This modest, curiously empty city in the heart of the kingdom is best known as the birthplace of the current dictator. The majority of its inhabitants are involved in smuggling, and it is considered noteworthy for its detailed murals, mostly of agrarian landscapes.
5. Newton
This is a huge, extremely crowded city built predominantly of timber and the only city in the kingdom still defended by local militia. It is well known for its unique architecture. Most of its revenue comes from fur and timber.
6. Landing
Landing was the first permanent settlement in what is now Colony West. This moderate-sized, not very populous city beside the sea is best known as a backwater. The majority of its inhabitants are involved in horse trading, and it is considered noteworthy for its red light district
7. Watershed
This large, bustling city is well known for its active market square. It serves as a coming together point for farmers and cattle ranchers and is known as a rowdy, less-than-law-abiding city. Most of its inhabitants are involved in the black market. It is known as the “Cow Pie Capitol of Colony West”, a nickname still leftover form the old days when citizens were permitted to lead their livestock through the city on foot on the way to the market.
8. Deep Valley
This huge city is crowded. It stands in a deep valley and is mainly constructed of granite. Most of the original city is surrounded by thick walls and its most noteworthy feature is the beautiful central square. In former times this city was the economic powerhouse of the colony, being the main point of departure for pioneers heading into Shaw.
9. Port Royal
This moderate-sized, extremely crowded city at the edge of King’s Bay is best known as a cultural Mecca. The former capitol of Colony West, it is still the capitol of New Kingsland, the oldest and wealthiest province in the nation. The majority of its inhabitants serve as patrons to the arts, and it is considered noteworthy for its massive carved gates of ivory.
10. Creighton
This moderate-sized city is curiously packed with the less fortunate of Colony West’s population. It stands in the heart of the country and is mainly constructed of timber. It is a gathering point for many unemployed workers who seek to eventually find a job in Port Royal, but cannot afford the rents there. This combination of the lower class is racially diverse, a diversity which is evidenced in its renown eclectic architectural style. The main source of revenue is fishing.
11. Kubliana
This is a modest, yet prosperous city built predominantly of granite, but with a large old town sector composed of marble. It is well known for its massive carved gates that are nearly as impressive as those in Port Royal. It was briefly the capitol of Colony East before its charter was revoked and its lands given to Colony West. It is unique in that most of its revenue comes from metalwork, followed closely by its fairly new computer software industry and it is possibly the most technologically advanced city in the country.
12. Hampton
This small, but crowded city on the coast is best known as a haven for the arts. The majority of its inhabitants are involved in fishing, and it is considered noteworthy for its large and busy market square.
13. Olathe
This modest city is moderately crowded. It stands beside the sea and is mainly constructed of brick. It is home to one of the two universities in Colony West and is well known for its colorful tiled roofs.
14. Pottersdon
This modest, prosperous city is the iconic center of the “heartland” of Colony West. The majority of its inhabitants are involved in agriculture, and it is considered noteworthy for being the only city to support farmers growing the cash crop of tobacco.
15. Colony City
This large, yet sparsely populated city at the edge of civilization is best known as a playground for the wealthy. The majority of its inhabitants are involved in textiles or agriculture, and it is considered noteworthy for its yearly harvest festival. This city is the capital of Colony West, but the governments plan to draw more people into the “heartland” by moving the capitol here instead of Port Royal is having seemingly little effect.
16. Franchburg
This moderate-sized city is well-populated. It stands beside the sea and is mainly constructed of stone. It is defined by the remnant of a fort around which the city was founded and its most noteworthy feature is the surrounding hot springs. Its main source of revenue is tourism, especially at its luxury hot springs resorts.
17. Habrigtol
This modest city is the capitol of Garret, the southernmost province with a coastline. Its well established middle class make most of their money from the shipping industry which handles agricultural goods from Garret as well as ore mined in Friesland and Dour. It is especially noted for its small central square filled with gardens and with sidewalks paved in gold. The square is a sad reminder of more prosperous days for Habrigtol however, as nearly half of the minerals mined from the mountainous regions is now sent by cargo plane from Edwardsville’s new airport to Port Royal or Port Firegrove to be shipped.
18. Edwardsville
This is a moderate-sized, extremely crowded city built predominantly of adobe and situated in the foothills of the southern mountain range. It is well known for its colorful Latin quarter. Most of its revenue comes from tourism.
19. Niel
This small city is bustling. It stands in the mountains and is mainly constructed of rock. It is the Capitol of Friesland and serves as a central hub of activity for prospectors in the surrounding mountains. Its most noteworthy feature is the imposing bell tower on its only church.
20. Port Firegrove
This massive, crowded city serves as the capitol of Wiens and is the most influential city in the nation. It is home to most of the nations cooperate headquarters and residents of this city control nearly 80% of the farmland in Colony West, despite the fact that the entire island this city is on, King’s Island, doesn’t sport one farm and most citizens have never seen the farms they own. This is also the most cosmopolitan city in the nation being the first place most immigrants come. It is home to the nations largest harbor, naval yard, air force base, and airport. This city and its many suburbs cover nearly half of King’s Island. It was considered to be the national capitol after it was decided that keeping the national capitol at Port Royal where the colonial capitol had been was not “sufficiently symbolic of our new independence”, but it lost out to Colony City because of the governments plan to draw people into the heartland. Many residents still make regular derisive jokes about those hicks in Colony City running the country.

The following info will be kept updated.

Cities with Major Airports: Port Royal, Port Firegrove, Colony City, Edwardsville, Kubliana, and North River
Moderate Size Airport Habrigtol

Cities with Major Ports: Port Royal, Port Firegrove, Timberport, Richmond, Habrigtol.
Other Ports: Olathe, Hampton, Franchburg

Naval Yards: Hampton, Port Royal, Princeton, Habrigtol
Air Force Bases: Colony City, Port Firegrove, Port Royal, and Niel
Major Army Bases: Deep Valley, Port Royal, Colony City, Edwardsville
There are army bases near every major city.
Aditonally, every major city is protected against balistic missile attacks by an A-135 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-135_anti-ballistic_missile_system) system, with two such systems operating around Port Royal.

Terain:
Mostly plains with mountains in south and southwest.

Agricultural:
Colony West was founded as a bread basket colony for its previous owner, mangudai, becuase it provides much arable land, a whopping 45.7%. The main crops are corn and wheat but without a parent country devouring its resources it doesn't need that much food. Many of these crops can be replaced with Alfalfa, Cotton, Sorghum, Peanuts, a variety of vegetables, and possibly tobacco. Much promise for a beef based agriculture as well. The norther and southern lands are largely unpopulated. In the north east small peach orchards dot the landscape. Possibilities for other orhcards are high. In the east the fishing industry is taking off and could become a major employer.

Mining & Drilling:
In the south evidence points that there may be rich deposits of natural resources, unexploited as of yet becuase of the lack of industrialization. Potential minerals to be found include iron ore, nickel, zinc, copper, gold, lead, molybdenum, potash, diamonds, silver, tungsten, and coal. The iron, nickel, and copper bring the most prevalent. Small prospectors claims control some of the gold, silver, and diamond deposits. The coal is mostly to the southeast and is entirely unexploited. It shows promise for a large deposit.
Petroleum and natural gas may be drilled for in the west and northwest. Potential unknown.

Other:
Timber industry may be devloped in North, especially to clear way for orchards. Main focus on timber so far has been to simply make room for farmlands. Abundant wildlife may make possible fur trade.

Foreign Investors:
Avrison:
Avrisonite Military- Military base
Zecka Corporation- Contracting of local construction firms, Autmotovie manufacturing development, Southeast Infrastructure Development, Zeca Energy llc.
Raytta Coporation- retail sales, communications, banking, and private security.

New Manth:
Mattan Textiles
Integrate Auto
Unnamed-Timber Industry in the north
Unnamed-Mining in the south
Unnamed- Urban Development projects
Alexandria Steel and Oil- oil exploration in west
SCC Group

Uphaus:
Uphausian Underwriters of Oppurtunity- special agricultural projects, Urban development projects
Upahus Chocolates Ltd.- Pecan grove conglomerations in Northeast
Upahus Farmers Conglomerate- Dairy Farmers conglomerate, speial projects in farm mechanization

Azazia:
Armed Forces- Special projects in modernizing Colonial Navy and Army
Government- Loans to Aeronautics Industries, First Incorporated Miners of Colony West, Colonial Railroad, Great Northern Railroad of Colony, Wiens and Mooreland Harbours Supervisories, and Government of Colony West.

Candrian Empire:
GEM Engineering- architectural consultation

Traveling Mice:
Western Energy Corporation- construction of hydroelectric dams along the North River, West Robinson Shoreline and Northern Shoreline of Robinson.
Delta Railroad- epansion of the railroad systems in Friesland, Dour, and western Shaw

List of Allies
Antigr
Avisron
Azazia
Candrian Empire
Crookfur
Delkor
Greal
Greston
Liberal Men and Women
New Brittonia
New Manth
Traveling Mice
Uphaus
Vetalia

Military
Army:
99,842 personnel Active
25,000 Active Reserve

21 Infantry Battalions
5 Mechanized Infantry Battalions
5 Armoured Regiments
18 Artillery Regiments {6 Low Level Air Defence, all active}
3 Special Forces Regiments
4 Patriot Missile Battalions
4,000 man the Army & Army Airforce Bases

Army Standard Issue:
SA-80
FN P90- Tank and helicopter crews
Dragunov SVD
M249 Para- paratrooper weapon
MGL Mk-1
MK23 Mod 0- special forces officers
M9 pistol
m14, m47, and m67 grenades, depending on branch.

Also commonly used:
RG-6
DP-64
RPG-29
M18A1 Claymore
FGM-148 Javelin
B-300
M3 MAAWS
M224 Mortar
M252 Mortar
M120 Mortar

Equipment:
1,500 T-90 [0 Active, ]
3,000 T-84 Oplot [932 Active]
*All T-90 and T-84 are fitted with reactive armor
2,400 Stryker [480 Active]
3,800 M2A3 Bradley [960 Active]
320 TPz Fuchs
390 FV103 Spartan
94 Field Ambulance
42 M198 howitzer (towed)
72 M39 Trucks
102 M109A6 howitzer Paladin
72 SPAA-1 Anti-Aircraft Artillery Vehicles
MIM-104 Patriot Missiles
SA-3 Goa SAM
SA-20 Triumf SAM
2,000 SPG-9 73mm recoilless rifles
90 batteries (4 missiles each) SA-3 SAMs.

Army Airforce:
24 CH-47 Chinook Helicopters
80 AH-1 Cobra Attack Helicopters
1,500 F-15
900 B-52 Stratofortress

Navy:
Personnel:
120,294 active duty personell, 13,000 active reserve
104,570 In Ships' Compliments
6,000 Special Forces
3,500 Harbor personnel
3,000 manning coastal defenses
3,804 in Air Wing

Assets:
#possesed--Asset--(# additional looking to build/$buy)
2 Nimitz Class Carrier
1 Forrestal Class Carrier
4 Forrestal Class Carrier
8 Roydia Class (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12608160&postcount=3) battleship
4 Tarawa Class Amphibious Assault Ship
12 Wasp Class Helicoper Assualt Ships
4 Kiev Class Helicopter Cruiser
11 Ticonderoga Class Cruisers
12 Mogami Class (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12700542&postcount=33) Air Defence Cruisers
6 Type 02 Destroyers
22 Kidd Class Destroyers
8 Lewis Class Air Defense Destroyers
42 Perry Class Frigates (12)
18 Guided Missile Frigates
18 Bathurst Class Corvettes
13 Virginia Class Submarine
4 Ohio Class Submarine
8 Mine Countermeasures Vessels
7 Naval Minesweepers
78 Pegasus Class Missile Boats
457 Patrol (gun) Boats
4 Navy Tug
22 Barbarossa class LSVs
762 other auxillary craft

Special Fleet Assets (not included in previous count):

1 Maiden Class (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9111710&postcount=279) Nuclear Powered Submergible aircraft Carrier
5 Ohio Class SSGN 726
5 SSN-774 Virginia Class
4 SSN-688 Los Angeles Class
2 Nautilus Class Submarine
3 Dolphin Class Submarine

10,000 Rufous (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12777583&postcount=1) anti-super capital missiles
17,000 P-800 Oniks anti-ship missiles
Ohio and some Virginia class subs armed with BGM-109 Tomahawk. 154 per Ohio class sub.
Virginia also carry: SCw17 Kern SAM, Mark 48 torpedoes, or various naval mines.

Coastal Defenses:
400 M-499 Cavalier Coastal Defense Railguns
400 Three Barrel 16”/50 Caliber Gun Turrets
400 Hammerhead Supercaptivating Encapsulated Torpedoes
1000 Mk 60 Encapsulated Torpedoes
100 AN/SSQ-58B Retrievable Moored Passive Sonobuoy
200Firestorm Missile Launcher (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11366504&postcount=3388)
500500mm Coastal Railgun (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10445386&postcount=2203)

Navy Airforce:
Personnel (included in navy count):
261 Helicopter crew
2,570 Pilots
No Reserves

Assets:
18 C-2 Greyhound
800 F-14's
16 Lynx HAS.2 Helicopters, Anti-Submarine Equipped
29 UH-3 Seaking Helicopters
80 AH-64 Apaches
24 CH-53E Super Stallion
64 CH-47 Chinook Helicopters

Navy Standard Issue
P11 ZUB- special forces
High Standard HDM
Uzi Pistol- special forces
SA-80

Coast Guard (Navy):
9,500 personnel (not included in Navy count)
All assigned to littoral patrol craft
Assests included in Naval Assets.

Marines:
32,000 Active Duty
Regular:
5,700 abord Navy Amphibious Assault Ships
1,200 assigned to LCAC

Standard Issue Weapons:
L85A2 IW - 5.56 x 45 mm (Individual Weapon)
L86A2 LSW - 5.56 x 45 mm (Light Support Weapon)
L110A1 Light Machine Gun 5.56 x 45 mm belt or magazine.
L82A1 Barrett - .50 inch (12.7 mm) BMG (Browning Machine gun) anti-materiel sniper rifle
L96A1 Sniper Rifle - 7.62 x 51 mm Accuracy International bolt-action sniper rifle
L115A1 Sniper Rifle - .338 Lapua Magnum Accuracy International bolt-action sniper rifle
L7A2 GPMG (General Purpose Machine Gun) - the FN MAG 7.62 x 51 mm belt-fed machine gun.
L1A1 Heavy Machine Gun .50 inch (12.7 mm) BMG (Browning Machine gun)
LAW 80 (Light Anti-tank Weapon)
L16A2 81 mm Mortar (High Explosive, Smoke and Illuminating ammunition)
L9A1 Browning - 9 x 19 mm Parabellum semi-automatic pistol
L107A1 - 9 x 19 mm Parabellum semi-automatic pistol
L17A2 UGL (Under-slung Grenade Launcher) - Attachment to L85A2


Embassy Guards:
Personnel:

Standard Issue:
FN 303
M1911 pistol
Ruger Mini-14

Other Assets:
12 Landing Craft Air Cushioned
2 Tarawa Class Amphibious Assault Ship
6 Kiev Class Helicopter Cruiser
32 AH-1 Cobra Attack Helicopters
FGM-148 Javelin anti tank missiles.

OOC: wow your a busy little bee... nicely done.

Miscellaneous Information:
The official language is Mangudese (similar to Khalkha Mongol) but nearly all Colonials also speak English and it is the most common language to communicate with. Throughout much of Wiens French is used as the conversant language, but English is taught in all state funded schools.

OOC: wow your a busy little bee... nicely done.

OOC:

I'll second that, on both counts. Nicely done, CW.

~ Romandeos.