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Allanean Arms Spearhead

Allaneans have always been famous for their motto "if all else fails, use more resources." In some countries, 'Allanea' is the word for 'overkill' in the local language. For some people, this is always a negative. There is nothing, they say, that can be good about the Allanean approach.

These people are dead wrong.

Take, for example, the Spearhead. Designed initially to work as an army tank transporter, this immense semitrailer truck is everything the large-scale cargo hauler might ever need. With an utterly deranged cargo hauling capacity of 100 tons, it can carry a trailer, and practically anything you need moved on it – up to an including a Nakil 1A2 main battle tank. But the truck is also great for civilian businesses.

Want to move eighty tons of bricks all at once?

A super-refrigerator trailer full of cold fish or ice cream?

Lots and lots and lots of fuel?

Raw sand for construction?

Allanean Arms' Spearhead can do that, and then some more.

We sell them both to major corporations and to independent truckers.

And for the latter, our cabin has more personal comfort then ever before – two comfortable cots to sleep on while resting on those long hauls, a DVD player for your partner, a full-out media suit replete with immense loudspeakers for your Metallica or your rap, and of course an air conditioner.

The Spearhead is all-climate suitable, guaranteed to work both in the deserts of Barronia and in the frozen wastes of the Havenic Arctic.

Allanean Arms: The Spearhead of Progress.

Specifications of the Spearhead

Towing Capacity: 100 tons
Maximum Speed: 30 miles per hour with full payload, 70 without
Transmission: 10-speed automatic
Engine: 800 hp
Range: 700 miles
Fording: 40 inches
Cost: $225,000

Trailer units:

Trailer: $20,000
Refirgerator: $100,000
80-ton capacity fuel or water trailer: $50,000

Sales per year:

Pan-Arab Barronia: 80 million

OOC: As usual, not a storefront, I don't handle 'vehicles-ordered-money-wired' stuff. Just, eh, post how many are sold per year in your nation and that'll be fine with me.

OOC: You mentioned me! Obliged now:

IC:

Misenae Telegraph
18 June 2007

The unusual-looking Allanean Arms Spearhead was released in Barronia today, with a more conservative advertisement than it's much smaller, distantly-related cousin the Firebolt.

Sales so far suggest that Allanea may be onto a winner - Barronian transport executives have been praying for a vehicle that will save countless convoys when transferring goods between Barronia's extensive train network and warehouses.

Romours floating about the nation even suggest that the Pan-Arab Barronian Ground Service, a branch of the armed forces, is looking into purchasing a number in preparation for a large buy of new armored vehicles.

Sales so far suggest 30 million sold in the pre-orders, with a target of 80 million by the end of the fiscal year.

Official Allanean Arms Questions For the Barronian Government

We would like to set up factories in your nation. Please advise as to the following:

1. What would be the minimum wage, if any?
2. What is the work-week?
3. What other specific regulations do we need to know about?

1. What would be the minimum wage, if any?
Minimum wage in Barronia is currently standing at the equivalent of $9.59 p/h

2. What is the work-week?
Standard working hours are 8am through 4pm, Mondays through Fridays. Up to 80 hours in one week, once every 4 weeks, non-consecutively (Over-21's only). Standard working week is anything up to 45 hours standard, 30 for under-18's.

3. What other specific regulations do we need to know about?
Standard Health & Safety, inspectors will come monthly. Tariffs in place, major corporations receive reviews to observe if removing them would be beneficial to the economy.
No limits on production.
Opportunity for investment into Barronian University and College education systems - in return, more students are liable to request work in factories.
Companies providing to the Armed Forces usually receive investment from the government.

-Hello your tuned in to Market Watch, your premier source for fiscal news.

The newest player in the Groznian freight scene is an Allanean auto company and their new toy for the market, a massive tractor-trailor capable of hauling 100 tons of freight. Pre-ordered sales in Groznyj have already topped $25 Million in standard currency and are expected to rise by the next fiscal year.

It would seem by all acounts that with Groznyj's large expanses of land and growing consumer base the Allanean auto manufacturer has made a hit.

This is Market Watch, tune in next time for reports on a radioactive never-melt ice cream product that's irradiating the market-

Official Response to Pan-Arab Barronia

Unfortunately, at present it is unprofitable for us to invest in your economy.
We apologize for any inconvenience.