Third Spanish States
15-10-2007, 21:30
(OOC: Don't forget to Enable images in your user CP. Also, it is mostly outdated because I'll further update it into the next version with the full "Confintern" or Confederation Internationale factbook because there's no way to put almost a billion - I'll dismiss extra pop. besides that,i in that tiny stretch of land that is Third Spanish States)
Free Electronic Direct Action Foundation 1.0,
Confederacy of the Third Spanish States IT
Department's Open-Source Software Studios.
Briefing message....................Complete - Subject: Factbook
A handful of volunteers took their time to write a detailed factbook of their own nation. It was written in three languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English. For international convenience only the English version will be exhib....
http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/third_spanish_states.jpg
Third Spanish States World Factbook (http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=display_nation/nation=Third%20Spanish%20States)
Briefing:
A large, frighteningly densely populated, economically powerful, environmentally stunning and socially progressive nation of Spanish ethnicity, founded by a group of visionaries, which population embraces one or more of the political beliefs between socialism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism), anarchism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism), direct democracy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy) and transhumanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism) among others, it is notable for its consensually accepted compulsory guerrilla warfare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_Warfare) training, adaptive economy (http://www.nationstates.net/42931/page=display_region/region=adaptive_economics_cyberspace), lack of an official capital, liberal nudism, active human cloning and genetic engineering research and also for its extensive computer networks of the EDDNet(Electronic Direct Democracy Network) that store an experimental neural network (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network) popularly known as as Las Puertas del Paraíso(The Doors of Paradise) and for its very tall and common skyscrapers connected by multiple skyways which are the most visible consequence of the population density.
Geography:
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4211/confinterntz7.png
Confederation Internationale(Confintern) Alliance Map
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/9229/tssmapmc4.jpg
Third Spanish States Sketch Map
Territories
The Confederacy knows no bounds as a constantly growing, plain, floating island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_island) built with earth and recycled materials acquired from Spanish countries, with circa 498,180.74 km² of main land territory and circa 250,000 km² of land from floating cities. The underwater portion of its mainland is filled with a reasonable amount of inactive nuclear engines that if powered up, would allow the island itself to very slowly move and relocate if it would be geopolitically interesting to do so. Currently its easternmost portion is stationed about 300 kilometers west of the city of Lisbon in the Atlantic Ocean and commonly engages into trade with the Iberian and Northwest African nations. It has around 15% of artificially forested territory, which is not under the shelter of any official environmental protection laws but still is unofficially preserved. 10% of its lands are used for advanced hydroponics agriculture and feedstock is almost vanishing due to the development of vat grown steam cell meat "manufacturing" technology. Urbanized territories with its majestic and common skyscrapers occupy about 80% of its whole area and it’s rumored that 2% of the territories house partially underwater bunkers where the network backbones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_backbone) are supposedly stored. And many live below the sea level in small underwater towns.
Weather
The Confederacy, as any other nation in the Atlantic bordering the Mediterranean, has its weather characterized by rare occurrence of rainfall during the summer, and on the other hand, most rainfall happening during the winter. It has relatively mild winters and during the summer temperature reaches the average maximum of 35º Celsius.
Economy:
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/9316/failureofthefreemarketmv9.png
Briefing
The Confederacy has a mixed voluntaryist economy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntaryist) that is currently between mutualist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_%28economic_theory%29) free market and communism, with a few cases of Igovian socialism as well, and even of capitalism. Its powerful, constantly growing mutualist free market, which now represents 65% of the whole economy, and is specially predominant in industry and commerce, works differently from capitalistic economies: Copyright or patent laws don’t exist, properties that are not used by their owners become public, renting, wage labor(called “wage slavery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery#Wage_slavery_in_Capitalist_societies)” by them) and interest rates are ostracized and cooperatives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative) dominate the private sector of mass-produced goods, dominated by arms industries, nanotechnology research institutes, software, computer hardware, automobiles and naval industry(which members form the economic elite of the Confederacy), while individual businessmen and artisans engage into friendly contests of creativity and control several niche markets of computer games, movies and other non-free electronic goods, while others delve into arts. The dwindling communist economy composes 30% of the economy, although it is almost absolute 100% in the agricultural sector, maintained with the support of all its citizens who live sharing the fruits of their works, knowledge and helping each other. Taxes don't exist in any form or manner around the Confederacy, making of it, superficially, a "free market paradise".
General Economic Data
It has an increasing estimated GDP of $13,500,000,000,000 and an estimated nominal GDP per capita of $45,000 per year, which massive consuming power is elevated due to extensive social welfare and mutual aid networks promoted by the private sector itself rather than by a central government through taxes, leading to a Purchasing Power Parity GDP Per capita of $65,000 per year. Nobody lives below the line of poverty, and despite that, the voluntary unemployment rate is of 2.55%, which some claim to be the inevitable result of slackers accommodating with the always supplied basic needs or of the excess of capabilities to supply each one’s needs. All personal income is spent into recreational activities, there is no inflation due to direct democratic controls of the economy, which labor force is about 75% of the population. Its currency is the mutualist credit( m¢ ), a strong currency equivalent in foreign trade to $1.95, and its people are avid consumerists of military hardware, cars, furniture, entertainment, recreational drugs and arts.
Agriculture, hunting and feedstock
This sector is composed by rice, beans and soy agriculture, with fishing and bird hunting as complementary food sources and a slick production of the completely legalized recreational drugs. Imports include chocolate, milk, exotic fruits and opiate. Exports include drugs in countries where they are also legal(and supposedly also on those where they are illegal). Due to continual migrations of the population towards other settled lands, currently it is self-sufficient in food.
Electricity
The Confederacy is a self-sufficient, nuclear-powered nation, as with proper storage methods and recycling of depleted uranium among other residues for new applications, nuclear power is much cleaner than coal or oil. 67% of its power supply coming from Fission power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission_power), 20% from tidal power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_Power) generators, 10% from solar collectors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_collector), 7% from waste biomass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_power#Bioenergy_from_waste) power plants and 1% from wind turbines. 75% of its total energy potential is used, opening space for potential exports, should an efficient technology of overseas electric transmission (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductor#Applications) be developed, although for now it has boosted a strong industry of converting AC electricity to CC electricity in the form of batteries and cells.
Mining and Ores Exports/Imports
Through deepsea mining (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepsea_mining), Third Spanish States extract significant quantities of zinc, copper, manganese, iron and some silver which it also exports in a limited degree.
On the other hand, coal, for steel making, niobium, for future applications, and uranium, as an energy source, are commonly sought out as imports, particularly from the Amazon Rainforest.
Natural Gas and Petroleum
Fossil fuels consumption is frowned upon, and it’s a very adequate cultural value for the Third Spanish States as it's far from self-sufficient regarding such resource: oceanic floor's deposits of natural gas and petroleum would only supply 5% of its energy demands otherwise. Most of its needs of oil, as a nation still in transition from a fossil fuels economy to either an hydrogen or fusion economy in the medium-term future, are supplied by the imports from Algerian and Tunysian communes.
Exports/Imports in General
The Confederacy is a known importer of synthetic recreational drugs, electronic devices, robots and computer hardware with the occasional meat to supply the demand vat-grown meat doesn't reach. Also, aside from the before mentioned goods, it also has a very strong export activity of military technology, high-class furniture, automobiles, "know-how" and computer software.
History:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbWGoPEN9l8
To understand the Third Spanish States, we must go back to the 1930’s and take a look at the Spanish Civil War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War). Spain had changed without bloodshed, the monarchy renounced. But that only delayed the inevitable as the new, socially progressive government conflicted with conservative and clerical interests. With the rise of fascism around Europe, soon a group of militaries, leaded by Francisco Franco, mutinied against the recently established Second Spanish Republic, leading Spain into a tragic Civil War where his nacionales, with the support of Italy and Germany, eventually took over the nation in a bloody conflict against social-democrats, liberals, communists and anarchists. For many historians of the Confederacy, the joining with republican forces and the request of aid from Soviet Union were the greatest mistakes, which they consider to have hindered any chance of victory.
Even after the defeat, many anarchists formed resistance groups (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Spain#The_Franco_Years), which struggled against Franco regime until the 1960s when they were nearly wiped out. After “democracy” returned in the final of the last century, they resumed activities into the small but idealistic CNT/AIT and the more realistically minded CNT/U, while squatters sympathized with their ideals. In 2010, a worldwide critical economic crisis provoked by a new record on petroleum prices led Europe into turmoil, bringing again the phantom of civil war, and the Spanish government answered to the constant rioting of miserable people with oppressive police violence. From this date to 2015 anarchism and Marxism started to gain significant support from the oppressed population thanks to many who would risk their lives to spread both ideals, and by 2014, guerrillas began to form with the goal of overthrowing the government. During the Food Riots of 2017 a young anarchist and engineer named Saúl Cortez, believing in the hopelessness of establishing a new order in his own homeland, called all those weary from the establishment to join him and build slowly a new nation, a nation so free that not even ocean would bound it… a nation built over a massive artificial island.
Many did laugh and ridiculed over the idea, but the despair was enough to convince about 6 million Europeans to join his cause. In the wreckages of a new Civil War, they scavenged materials to slowly build their island and claimed a small portion of southwestern Spanish coast in Huelva, Cádiz, Málaga and Seville while they were building it, which became the provisional Confederacy. Unfortunately their claim wasn't ignored and they had to defend Seville many times against government incursions with their limited arsenal of ADATS, RPGs, rifles, machineguns and stolen tanks, and with their expertise of guerrilla warfare, where the first Iron Column was born, in honor of the Iron Column of the first Spanish Civil War, for the official authorities continued to attack them, even though at the same time both anarchist and Marxist guerrillas were still actively seeking to violently overthrow the government with covert attacks and hit-and-run tactics. After a long march and gather up of reinforcements which has mimicked the principles of People's War in China avoiding for 2 years direct engagements with government troops whenever possible, the Spanish emergency powers "provisional" government was overthrown in 2019 by the effort of an war hero named Júlio Santiago and his comrades, although his success was betrayed as the Marxists who exploited it and the attention of the anarchists over the planned island to replace the former government with a dictatorship of the "proletariat", which has became the next enemy of the anarchists in the form of yet another police State. Using the pretext that the anarchists were "petit bourgeoisie", in certain part "justified" as many small businessmen sought refuge with them following the dawn of a new totalitarian police State, the People's Republic of Spain, like the former government, has attempted many times to take over the four provinces controlled by the anarchists. For seven years, the brave people of the first Confederacy have stood, against all odds, and proven their worth as a people. Their experience with the war, comradeship, perseverance and readiness to fight when necessary for their freedom would not be left behind, and even today marks their strangely "militaristic" culture(in vision regarding the need of arms rather than in social organization) despite their anarchist values.
In 2023, after four years of brutal combats against Soviet Spain, the island, which was already previously inhabited by some was done… earth and grass covered its recycled material “boat”, trees were planted, animals were brought, tidal generators were built and looted computers and network equipments filled all cities, it was in certain ways a secular version of the Noah's Ark, a new hope for humankind. A new nation was literally built from scratch and all hopped on board of many transport ships to migrate for it during three years. It happened just at the right time, for should a single delay have happened, Third Spanish States wouldn't exist. In 2022, Seville was taken over by the Soviet as many fought to death to cover the retreat of the population, the situation was becoming dire while the exodus to Third Spanish States was on its way, and fortunately most of the Navy was either beyond repair or under control of the anarchists. In brave combats, the final invasion against Cádiz was delayed for just enough time for the last transport and inherent logistics preparations of the last migrants to happen.It took many years for the man-made continent to reach its current dimensions, economic power and technological supremacy where it stands as proof of the power of mutual aid. From this day onwards, the Confederacy of the Third Spanish States(Confederación de los Terceros Estados Españoles) began to officially exist. During the First Meeting(Primero Encontro) it was decided that, considering the foreign threats, guerrilla warfare training should be established and absorbed as part of the culture of each confederate. Also the same Meeting was known for the heated discussions between anarcho-individualists, mutualists, anarcho-capitalists and anarcho-communists among others about how the economy should be, that ended in a consensus of having a mixed, voluntaryist economy.
Since its inception, it has been known for approving freedom and environmental-friendly laws, although it lacks emphasis on single-issue causes like the environment. Everybody agreed that voting shouldn’t be compulsory, and no matter how ironic it is, even fascists bear the right of free speech.
However, the most important decision in its history is the approval of the Association of Human Life Researchers(Asociación de los Investigadores de la Vida Humana) programs, which are using human clones to seek to develop cutting edge technologies in genetic engineering and is very anxiously watched by the transhumanists as the keys for the next step of human evolution, while feared by the bioconservatives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioconservative#Contrasting_stance) in the Confederacy. Rumors claim they estimate a scientific outbreak for at most 2050*. Clones also became a commonplace alternative human reproduction method.
*Time when the effective MT-PMT transition shall happen in Third Spanish States.
Free Electronic Direct Action Foundation 1.0,
Confederacy of the Third Spanish States IT
Department's Open-Source Software Studios.
Briefing message....................Complete - Subject: Factbook
A handful of volunteers took their time to write a detailed factbook of their own nation. It was written in three languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English. For international convenience only the English version will be exhib....
http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/third_spanish_states.jpg
Third Spanish States World Factbook (http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=display_nation/nation=Third%20Spanish%20States)
Briefing:
A large, frighteningly densely populated, economically powerful, environmentally stunning and socially progressive nation of Spanish ethnicity, founded by a group of visionaries, which population embraces one or more of the political beliefs between socialism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism), anarchism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism), direct democracy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy) and transhumanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism) among others, it is notable for its consensually accepted compulsory guerrilla warfare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_Warfare) training, adaptive economy (http://www.nationstates.net/42931/page=display_region/region=adaptive_economics_cyberspace), lack of an official capital, liberal nudism, active human cloning and genetic engineering research and also for its extensive computer networks of the EDDNet(Electronic Direct Democracy Network) that store an experimental neural network (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network) popularly known as as Las Puertas del Paraíso(The Doors of Paradise) and for its very tall and common skyscrapers connected by multiple skyways which are the most visible consequence of the population density.
Geography:
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4211/confinterntz7.png
Confederation Internationale(Confintern) Alliance Map
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/9229/tssmapmc4.jpg
Third Spanish States Sketch Map
Territories
The Confederacy knows no bounds as a constantly growing, plain, floating island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_island) built with earth and recycled materials acquired from Spanish countries, with circa 498,180.74 km² of main land territory and circa 250,000 km² of land from floating cities. The underwater portion of its mainland is filled with a reasonable amount of inactive nuclear engines that if powered up, would allow the island itself to very slowly move and relocate if it would be geopolitically interesting to do so. Currently its easternmost portion is stationed about 300 kilometers west of the city of Lisbon in the Atlantic Ocean and commonly engages into trade with the Iberian and Northwest African nations. It has around 15% of artificially forested territory, which is not under the shelter of any official environmental protection laws but still is unofficially preserved. 10% of its lands are used for advanced hydroponics agriculture and feedstock is almost vanishing due to the development of vat grown steam cell meat "manufacturing" technology. Urbanized territories with its majestic and common skyscrapers occupy about 80% of its whole area and it’s rumored that 2% of the territories house partially underwater bunkers where the network backbones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_backbone) are supposedly stored. And many live below the sea level in small underwater towns.
Weather
The Confederacy, as any other nation in the Atlantic bordering the Mediterranean, has its weather characterized by rare occurrence of rainfall during the summer, and on the other hand, most rainfall happening during the winter. It has relatively mild winters and during the summer temperature reaches the average maximum of 35º Celsius.
Economy:
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/9316/failureofthefreemarketmv9.png
Briefing
The Confederacy has a mixed voluntaryist economy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntaryist) that is currently between mutualist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_%28economic_theory%29) free market and communism, with a few cases of Igovian socialism as well, and even of capitalism. Its powerful, constantly growing mutualist free market, which now represents 65% of the whole economy, and is specially predominant in industry and commerce, works differently from capitalistic economies: Copyright or patent laws don’t exist, properties that are not used by their owners become public, renting, wage labor(called “wage slavery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery#Wage_slavery_in_Capitalist_societies)” by them) and interest rates are ostracized and cooperatives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative) dominate the private sector of mass-produced goods, dominated by arms industries, nanotechnology research institutes, software, computer hardware, automobiles and naval industry(which members form the economic elite of the Confederacy), while individual businessmen and artisans engage into friendly contests of creativity and control several niche markets of computer games, movies and other non-free electronic goods, while others delve into arts. The dwindling communist economy composes 30% of the economy, although it is almost absolute 100% in the agricultural sector, maintained with the support of all its citizens who live sharing the fruits of their works, knowledge and helping each other. Taxes don't exist in any form or manner around the Confederacy, making of it, superficially, a "free market paradise".
General Economic Data
It has an increasing estimated GDP of $13,500,000,000,000 and an estimated nominal GDP per capita of $45,000 per year, which massive consuming power is elevated due to extensive social welfare and mutual aid networks promoted by the private sector itself rather than by a central government through taxes, leading to a Purchasing Power Parity GDP Per capita of $65,000 per year. Nobody lives below the line of poverty, and despite that, the voluntary unemployment rate is of 2.55%, which some claim to be the inevitable result of slackers accommodating with the always supplied basic needs or of the excess of capabilities to supply each one’s needs. All personal income is spent into recreational activities, there is no inflation due to direct democratic controls of the economy, which labor force is about 75% of the population. Its currency is the mutualist credit( m¢ ), a strong currency equivalent in foreign trade to $1.95, and its people are avid consumerists of military hardware, cars, furniture, entertainment, recreational drugs and arts.
Agriculture, hunting and feedstock
This sector is composed by rice, beans and soy agriculture, with fishing and bird hunting as complementary food sources and a slick production of the completely legalized recreational drugs. Imports include chocolate, milk, exotic fruits and opiate. Exports include drugs in countries where they are also legal(and supposedly also on those where they are illegal). Due to continual migrations of the population towards other settled lands, currently it is self-sufficient in food.
Electricity
The Confederacy is a self-sufficient, nuclear-powered nation, as with proper storage methods and recycling of depleted uranium among other residues for new applications, nuclear power is much cleaner than coal or oil. 67% of its power supply coming from Fission power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission_power), 20% from tidal power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_Power) generators, 10% from solar collectors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_collector), 7% from waste biomass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_power#Bioenergy_from_waste) power plants and 1% from wind turbines. 75% of its total energy potential is used, opening space for potential exports, should an efficient technology of overseas electric transmission (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductor#Applications) be developed, although for now it has boosted a strong industry of converting AC electricity to CC electricity in the form of batteries and cells.
Mining and Ores Exports/Imports
Through deepsea mining (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepsea_mining), Third Spanish States extract significant quantities of zinc, copper, manganese, iron and some silver which it also exports in a limited degree.
On the other hand, coal, for steel making, niobium, for future applications, and uranium, as an energy source, are commonly sought out as imports, particularly from the Amazon Rainforest.
Natural Gas and Petroleum
Fossil fuels consumption is frowned upon, and it’s a very adequate cultural value for the Third Spanish States as it's far from self-sufficient regarding such resource: oceanic floor's deposits of natural gas and petroleum would only supply 5% of its energy demands otherwise. Most of its needs of oil, as a nation still in transition from a fossil fuels economy to either an hydrogen or fusion economy in the medium-term future, are supplied by the imports from Algerian and Tunysian communes.
Exports/Imports in General
The Confederacy is a known importer of synthetic recreational drugs, electronic devices, robots and computer hardware with the occasional meat to supply the demand vat-grown meat doesn't reach. Also, aside from the before mentioned goods, it also has a very strong export activity of military technology, high-class furniture, automobiles, "know-how" and computer software.
History:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbWGoPEN9l8
To understand the Third Spanish States, we must go back to the 1930’s and take a look at the Spanish Civil War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War). Spain had changed without bloodshed, the monarchy renounced. But that only delayed the inevitable as the new, socially progressive government conflicted with conservative and clerical interests. With the rise of fascism around Europe, soon a group of militaries, leaded by Francisco Franco, mutinied against the recently established Second Spanish Republic, leading Spain into a tragic Civil War where his nacionales, with the support of Italy and Germany, eventually took over the nation in a bloody conflict against social-democrats, liberals, communists and anarchists. For many historians of the Confederacy, the joining with republican forces and the request of aid from Soviet Union were the greatest mistakes, which they consider to have hindered any chance of victory.
Even after the defeat, many anarchists formed resistance groups (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Spain#The_Franco_Years), which struggled against Franco regime until the 1960s when they were nearly wiped out. After “democracy” returned in the final of the last century, they resumed activities into the small but idealistic CNT/AIT and the more realistically minded CNT/U, while squatters sympathized with their ideals. In 2010, a worldwide critical economic crisis provoked by a new record on petroleum prices led Europe into turmoil, bringing again the phantom of civil war, and the Spanish government answered to the constant rioting of miserable people with oppressive police violence. From this date to 2015 anarchism and Marxism started to gain significant support from the oppressed population thanks to many who would risk their lives to spread both ideals, and by 2014, guerrillas began to form with the goal of overthrowing the government. During the Food Riots of 2017 a young anarchist and engineer named Saúl Cortez, believing in the hopelessness of establishing a new order in his own homeland, called all those weary from the establishment to join him and build slowly a new nation, a nation so free that not even ocean would bound it… a nation built over a massive artificial island.
Many did laugh and ridiculed over the idea, but the despair was enough to convince about 6 million Europeans to join his cause. In the wreckages of a new Civil War, they scavenged materials to slowly build their island and claimed a small portion of southwestern Spanish coast in Huelva, Cádiz, Málaga and Seville while they were building it, which became the provisional Confederacy. Unfortunately their claim wasn't ignored and they had to defend Seville many times against government incursions with their limited arsenal of ADATS, RPGs, rifles, machineguns and stolen tanks, and with their expertise of guerrilla warfare, where the first Iron Column was born, in honor of the Iron Column of the first Spanish Civil War, for the official authorities continued to attack them, even though at the same time both anarchist and Marxist guerrillas were still actively seeking to violently overthrow the government with covert attacks and hit-and-run tactics. After a long march and gather up of reinforcements which has mimicked the principles of People's War in China avoiding for 2 years direct engagements with government troops whenever possible, the Spanish emergency powers "provisional" government was overthrown in 2019 by the effort of an war hero named Júlio Santiago and his comrades, although his success was betrayed as the Marxists who exploited it and the attention of the anarchists over the planned island to replace the former government with a dictatorship of the "proletariat", which has became the next enemy of the anarchists in the form of yet another police State. Using the pretext that the anarchists were "petit bourgeoisie", in certain part "justified" as many small businessmen sought refuge with them following the dawn of a new totalitarian police State, the People's Republic of Spain, like the former government, has attempted many times to take over the four provinces controlled by the anarchists. For seven years, the brave people of the first Confederacy have stood, against all odds, and proven their worth as a people. Their experience with the war, comradeship, perseverance and readiness to fight when necessary for their freedom would not be left behind, and even today marks their strangely "militaristic" culture(in vision regarding the need of arms rather than in social organization) despite their anarchist values.
In 2023, after four years of brutal combats against Soviet Spain, the island, which was already previously inhabited by some was done… earth and grass covered its recycled material “boat”, trees were planted, animals were brought, tidal generators were built and looted computers and network equipments filled all cities, it was in certain ways a secular version of the Noah's Ark, a new hope for humankind. A new nation was literally built from scratch and all hopped on board of many transport ships to migrate for it during three years. It happened just at the right time, for should a single delay have happened, Third Spanish States wouldn't exist. In 2022, Seville was taken over by the Soviet as many fought to death to cover the retreat of the population, the situation was becoming dire while the exodus to Third Spanish States was on its way, and fortunately most of the Navy was either beyond repair or under control of the anarchists. In brave combats, the final invasion against Cádiz was delayed for just enough time for the last transport and inherent logistics preparations of the last migrants to happen.It took many years for the man-made continent to reach its current dimensions, economic power and technological supremacy where it stands as proof of the power of mutual aid. From this day onwards, the Confederacy of the Third Spanish States(Confederación de los Terceros Estados Españoles) began to officially exist. During the First Meeting(Primero Encontro) it was decided that, considering the foreign threats, guerrilla warfare training should be established and absorbed as part of the culture of each confederate. Also the same Meeting was known for the heated discussions between anarcho-individualists, mutualists, anarcho-capitalists and anarcho-communists among others about how the economy should be, that ended in a consensus of having a mixed, voluntaryist economy.
Since its inception, it has been known for approving freedom and environmental-friendly laws, although it lacks emphasis on single-issue causes like the environment. Everybody agreed that voting shouldn’t be compulsory, and no matter how ironic it is, even fascists bear the right of free speech.
However, the most important decision in its history is the approval of the Association of Human Life Researchers(Asociación de los Investigadores de la Vida Humana) programs, which are using human clones to seek to develop cutting edge technologies in genetic engineering and is very anxiously watched by the transhumanists as the keys for the next step of human evolution, while feared by the bioconservatives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioconservative#Contrasting_stance) in the Confederacy. Rumors claim they estimate a scientific outbreak for at most 2050*. Clones also became a commonplace alternative human reproduction method.
*Time when the effective MT-PMT transition shall happen in Third Spanish States.