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Third Spanish States World Factbook

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 Also, it is mostly outdated because I'll further update it into the next version with the full "Confintern" or Confederation Internationale factbook because there's no way to put almost a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)

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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....

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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:

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Confederation Internationale(Confintern) Alliance Map

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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:

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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:

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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.
Third Spanish States
16-10-2007, 02:17
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Modern Iron Column propaganda based on an original of the Spanish Civil War

Military

Business Type: Private Defense Agency (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_defense_agency), Cooperative
Economic Activity: Military Technologies Industry
Commercial HQ: Milnet Business Council, Tucker
Commercial Mission: "To provide the best equipments for self-defense and freedom assurance to our customers, both resellers and to the direct user, with a constant care on ethical and moral principles, coupled with training, advice and continual customer support as aggregates"
Local market share: 80% (De facto monopoly)
Revenue(2038): US$776,849,773,392.00
Expenses(2038): US$776,800,450,000.00
Result: US$49,323,392

Briefing

Having its experience from the Second Civil War, the Confederacy’s military forces are composed of voluntary civilian militias and professional guerrillas, which have a very unique feature: The lack of any formal hierarchy and the democratic consensus-based leadership by which it operates. The professional guerrillas are divided into regular and special forces, both forming the divisions known Iron Columns(15,000 man each) which divide into regiments of 5,000 men, battalions of 1,500 men and companies of 300 men, usually supported in combined arms by the supported by the automotive industry Steel Striders ultra light brigades(80 armored vehicles each), when stealth and going through rough terrain are not needed. They have many specialized small teams into the companies which commonly operate individually. Each company is formed by 150 logistics operatives, 30 demolitions and stealth experts, 20 heavy infantrymen, 90 guerrillas, 6 blackguard special forces and 1 electronic warfare officer and major. 0.32% of the population compose the regular military while there is an estimative of in between 30 and 50% of the population belonging to private militias, while maintaining their main peacetime professional activities nonetheless. The growth of the automobile cooperatives and of the economy recently gave TSS logistical capability to manufacture and maintain armored vehicles in large scale, empowering its well equipped and well trained infantry, and by 2039, the Confederacy has a fully effective military in all branches which relies entirely on homegrown technology, including even the Orbital Forces, which primary highlight is the Sistema Orbital de Defensa Estratégica(SODE) which is basically the Confederacy "Strategic Defense Initiative". Third Spanish States military is also a private business organization sought to fund its operation through revenues from sales of military technology and know-how rather than through taxes, making of its leaders also effectively skilled in business management, and having even customer-oriented personell to attend providers, resellers and customers, coupling as a cooperative and as a military force at the same time, comparable in functioning to a "corporate army", although entirely the opposite in principles. It is also by far the wealthiest business of the entire Confederacy, although almost all its profits are used to fund the military.

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Army

Further details in this specific military factbook(Coming Soon)

Number in active service: 330,000
Infantry and support: 150,000
- Montañeros Elite Forces: 1,500
- JBC(Jungla, Bosque, Ciudad) Elite Forces: 3,000
- Paracaidistas Elite Forces: 12,000
- Blackguards SpecOps: 300
AFV crew and support: 180,000
Reserves: 990,000
HQ: Virtual, Military Network Army Subsystem(MilNet-Army)
Leadership: MilNet Integrated Strategic Council

Technology

Infantry (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=550516)
Armored Vehicles (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=550516&page=2)
Artillery

Ranks

The closest comparison to Third Spanish States military organization, in a very basic glance, is to compare it to a Participatory Democracy where an EW Officer is the equivalent of an elected congressman on the decision making of the Army during a war. All positions of leadership are voted upon by those at the bottom rather than chosen by those at the top. At the same time all can participate into decision making and mission planning through the MilNet.

Meritocratic Ranks:

Reservista - Reservists, as there are more people interested in joining the active military than available positions, are those who are not among the most skilled 0.2% who belong to Third Spanish States professional Military and have as primary function during peacetime to serve as a bridge between the Military and Civilian Militias, finding potential recruits among them.

Soldado - To become a soldier one must not only compete with an overall of 50 or more candidates for a position in the Army, but also prove their entire moral integrity and loyalty to the cause of freedom. Only the most honest, physically and mentally fit of those 50 become soldiers.

Elite - An elite rank is only achieved by about 1 of each 1,000 soldiers and allows a soldier to join the Blackguards or other special forces.

Elective and Meritocratic Ranks:

Líder de Fireteam - a Fireteam leader is usually the most entrusted and skilled member, elected by the members of the fireteam itself in a fast, usually consensus based process. Only those with at least 2 years of field experience can candidate themselves to become fireteam leaders.

Líder de Esquadrón - A squad leader is, like the fireteam leader, elected by the members of the Squad based on several guidelines. Only people with at least 3 years of field experience can candidate themselves to become squad leaders in most circumstances.

Líder the Sección - A platoon leader integrates both armored vehicles and infantry forces operating together in a platoon and is elected by the vote of all platoon members. 4 years of experience and a degree in Logistics and Multiple intensity conflicts Military Tactics from one of the Military Academy are required from any candidate. They are the primary tactical officers and mission planners of Third Spanish States military.

Oficial de GE y Major - The EW Officer and Major is elected to lead an entire company and its following armored vehicles. To become one it is required to have a Degree in electronic warfare and in Flexible Military Strategy from the Academy, plus 7 years of military experience. Majors are the strategic officers in Third Spanish States army, specialized organizing the larger forces through the battlefield strategically. It's the highest rank in the Army of Third Spanish States, not counting the variations of these ranks for logistics, which have different names but similar principles. All older soldiers are encouraged to specialize in EW.

Armored Vehicles

Number of AFVs: 18,900
Battle tanks:

Stealth: 1,890
Main: 2,363
Assault: 472

Infantry fighting vehicles: 7,088
ADATS: 2,599 units(2 vehicles each)
Kinetic artillery: 945 units(2 vehicles each)

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Navy

Further details in this specific military factbook(Coming Soon)

Active personell: 204,000
Blackmarines: 50,000
HQ: Virtual, Military Network Navy Subsystem(MilNet-Navy)
Leadership: MilNet Integrated Strategic Council

Supercarriers: 4
Cruiser-carriers: 45
Battlecruisers: 360
Destroyers: 180
Frigates: 180
Submarines: 200
Amphibious assault: 60
Amphibious transport 160
Mine warfare: 50
Naval aviation: 1,000 aircrafts

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Air Force

Further details in this specific military factbook(Coming Soon)

Active personell: 356,000
HQ: Virtual, Military Network Air Force Subsystem(MilNet-AF)
Leadership: MilNet Integrated Strategic Council

Total of Aircrafts: 6,000
Fighters: 2,800
AEW&C: 40

Total of UAVs: 8,500
Miniature UAVs: 7,400*
UCAVs: 200
Recon: 850
AEW: 50

*Most are under control of the Army

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Orbital Forces

Information on orbital forces is classified.

Government

Country Name

Full Name: Confederacy of the Third Spanish States
Short Name: Third Spanish States
Common Reference: Confederacionist

Description

If hierarchy and coercion are needed elements for the existence of a government, then the Third Spanish States are an anarchy, otherwise they actually have a consensually accepted Electronic Direct Democracy powered by computer neural networks and functional due to the impressive quality of non-formal education given to the future “governors”. All decision-making is through everyone voting, which isn’t compulsory and those who disagree with a decision are not forced to support it with their actions, which grants extensive rights to minorities of ideologies, opinions, religions and ethnicities. There is no official capital, unless the virtual dominion of the E-democratic network can be classified as one, thought it’s believed that the largest cities of Nueva Mallorca, Neocataluña, Nueva Madrid, Nova Lisboa, Porto Populi and Hampshire Haven host most of network backbones and could be classified as unofficial capitals due to such feature while the city of Tucker is it's economic capital due to its impressive powerhouse of automobile and computer industries and nanotechnology research institutes. Its government is also extremely decentralized, where even each city’s street population has autonomy to make their own decisions and each citizen has the autonomy to accept or not the decisions of the majority. Corruption is virtually nonexistent and a project seeks to create an advanced Artificial Intelligence to replace the role of the people directly affected by a criminal as judge. Suffrage is obviously universal.

Foundation and National Holiday

Third Spanish States were officially founded in 5th of February, 2023 and has as national holiday the Día de Memoria a Guernica (Day of Remembering Guernica), which is April 26, which is a honor to the victims of the bombing of Guernica in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.

Ideological Movements

As there is no representative democracy, there are no political parties in the Confederacy. Instead ideological movements exist attempting to convince the population to push forward their goals, mostly linked to economics. When one of them manage to push the balance to their side TSS economy and politics leans either toward “left” or “right”, “faith” or “rationalism”, “ecology” or “progress”, "peace" or "war", depending on which one manages to do it. The following ones are the most significant and each of them have either founded or moved to certain cities or locations where they are the dominant ideological group:

Anarcho-Communists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-communism)
Dominant Ideology's City: Porto Bakunin
Description:They preach a completely collective communist economy and the abolition of the mutualist free market, claiming that it will eventually become a capitalist market and make all the efforts and ideals of TSS in vain. They fear the late events are about to transform the Confederacy in a capitalist nation, though an influx of social equality laws approved due to the phantom of poverty stopped that trend.

Conservatives
Dominant Ideology's City: Nueva Madrid
Description: A completely relative term, in TSS the conservatives are those who simply wish to maintain its current revolutionary status quo of a mixed Mutualist/Communist economy with EDD unchanged. The majority of the population are conservatives.

Mutualists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_%28economic_theory%29)
Dominant Ideology's City: Sueño de Proudhon
Description: They claim that the collective portion of TSS economy is highly inefficient, halts its progress and harms individual freedoms, affirming that the welfare encourages social parasites and wish that its economy becomes an entirely mutualist free market. Their agenda was weakened again, as about 2/3rds of the Confederacy economy embraced communism.

Anarcho-Individualists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-individualism)
Dominant Ideology's City: Tucker, which also has large numbers of anarcho-capitalists
Description: Anarcho-individualists are against any form of social coercion and lobby for not only the complete extinction of the collective economy, but also for the abolition of the E-democracy so people can better “govern their own business instead of everybody’s ones”. They are unhappy with the growth of the public sector.

Anarcho-Capitalists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism)
Dominant Ideology's City: Tucker
Description: Anarcho-capitalists were since the beginning attempting to convince the population that wage labor, renting and interest rates aren’t evil things and can actually make TSS economy as a whole much better. However, different from most anarcho-capitalists, they believe that “everyone should begin with the same chances of financial success” and are against legacies. They prefer to call themselves anarcho-meritocrats. With their intervention a group to support the automobile cooperatives was founded and a little more recently, a controversial Artificial Intelligence was approved, boosting TSS economy and making automobiles and IT its major industries. Other ideological groups accuse them of promoting the gambling and international drug trade black market.

Anarcho-Primitivists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism)
Dominant Ideology's City: None, as they abhor urban areas
Description: A very environmentally radical ideology, they seek to return TSS society to a communitarian primitive state of living similar to the one of native Americans, claiming that modern industrial society is a disease, whether the means of production are controlled by the people or not. Many of them inhabit the forests of TSS and offer free of charge guidance to visitors.

Green Anarchists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Anarchism)
Dominant Ideology's City: Ciudad Gaia
Description: Less radical than the Anarcho-primitivists, they only seek to reduce the density of human population to the village-level and will not frown upon environmentally friendly technologies. They also defend a communist economy and their wide main city is famous for having a large population in a very low density. They are not very happy with the growth of the automobile sector and there is an increasing pressure for them to withdraw their population density restrictions due to overpopulation.

Christian Anarchists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Anarchism)
Dominant Ideology's City: Fátima
Description: They defend a communist economy and are trying to approve non-compulsory Christianism classes in teachers cooperatives(the schools of TSS) which is not accepted due to “lack of scientific foundations”. Also they are radical pacifists and frown upon militarism, seeking to always lobby the Confederacy to reduce its military activities. They were very disturbed by the endorsement of a completely secular policy on religious matters and with the state-sponsored human eugenics and cloning programs.

Anarcho-Socialist Transhuman Eugenics
Dominant Ideology's City: Savate
Description: A alarmingly growing radical and prejudice-filled movement which originated from the radical transformation of fascist ideology through the cultural values of the Third Spanish States, they defend that all those who bow down and submit to governments and oppressors, together with the oppressors, are subhumans and must be exterminated if mankind is to see a day where the institution of the State and hierarchies will never exist. They believe that submission, sadism, domination and many other traits they consider negative and inferior are originated from faults of the human genetic code that must be wiped out of human race, and for such end, they consider all means as justifiable. Also, they believe in the use of technology to improve mankind until the superhuman race is born and stand for a highly aggressive foreign policy.

WA Category

According to the people of Third Spanish States, such classifications are as relevant as the World Assembly itself.

People and Population

Total Population: 300,000,000 inhabitants

Effective Population Density: 85 inhabitants per cubic kilometer*

*The recently approved and completed Arcology and SubmarineCity projects have rendered the square kilometer measure obsolete.

Age Structure

00-18 years: 20%
18-30 years: 50%
30-50 years: 15%
50-80 years: 05%
80-xx years: 10%

Median age: 31.3 years old

Growth and Life

Population Growth Rate: 3.87%
Net Migration Rate: 15.5%
Life Expectancy at Birth: 96 years
HDI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index): 0.99

Ethnicity and Culture

Nationality: TSS are composed by 30% of Spaniards, 25% of Portuguese, 24.4% of English and 20.6% from several different nations across the globe.

Ethnic Composition

By nation-related ancestry

20% Hispanics
20% South Africans
15% British
15% North Africans(Algerians et al)
15% Brazilians
10% Asians
4% Other European nationalities
1% Other

By "racial" composition

45% Mixed "race" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-race)

Non-determined*: 35%
Caucasian-African: 30%
Caucasian-Asian: 24%
African-Asian: 10%
Other: 1%

25% Caucasian
20% African
10% Asian

Religions: Agnosticism(40%), Atheism(28%), Christianism(26%) are the most practiced beliefs(or lack of them), while in the remaining 6% any kind of human faith can be found.

Languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English are respectively the most commonly spoken languages.

Literacy: The Confederacy citizens usually tend to proudly announce their 100% literacy rate during international trips when their nation is mentioned.

Communications

Country Code: 26
Number of Televisions: 0*
Number of Telephones: 0*
Number of Cell Phones: 285,500,000
Number of Radios: 0*
Number of Computers: 300,000,000
Radio Broadcast Stations: About 100,500 Independent Broadcasters
Major Radio Broadcasters: None.
Television Broadcasters: About 80,335 Independent Media Foundations.
Internet Hosts: Thousands of truly free hosting services.
Internet Service Providers: Public EDDNet Access and 10990 free private owned providers.
Internet Users: 100% of TSS population.
Domain Extension: In Internet it’s .tss , no extensions exist in EDDNet

*The people of the Confederacy dismissed these devices as obsolete because personal computers replaced them.

(OOC: Comments, Suggestions and Criticisms are welcome. Also I prefer a less "technical" style of factbook with more descriptive content like this one)
Third Spanish States
18-10-2007, 20:42
EDDNet Independent Journalists

Informing everything that matters since the the dawn of the nation.

Latest news:


3 years old boys learn and use the F-word! Christians claim that freedom of speech is going too far.
Slacking engineers from the public setor get up and design cars for automobile industries.
Confederacy Hospitals use artificial plastic organs as workarounds in transplants.
40% of citizens did not vote in the latest decision making process. Fringe groups lobby for compulsory voting.
Automobile cooperatives fund mutualist ideological group campaign with spam, noisy cars and megaphones.
Teenage gamble his supply of marijuana in a clandestine dice game!


(OOC: The "news" are based on the decisions taken on issues and of course, exaggerated outcomes of the decisions. This is a better way I devised to bump this thread ;))
Third Spanish States
27-10-2007, 23:07
EDDNet Independent Journalists

Informing everything that matters since the the dawn of the nation.

Latest news:


Space is running low as population density grows alarmingly high! Projects to buy foreign land, negative eugenics programs and even insane military operations for acquiring "living space" by force are being proposed.
Tienda del Coche cooperative members have an income 100 times higher than the poorest of Third Spanish States and recently became the first millionaires.
Independent media broadcasting polemic: Porn channels bother moralists.
Soda Cooperatives Alliance's seedy drink becomes national success: being a pothead is now a symbol of status.
"Universities for Everyone" program raises the demand of manual labor in Third Spanish States: Immigrants are being welcome to join.
Crime on the raise: Capitalist pigs try to cheat on the people of the Confederacy to take over their hard work in another form than surplus-value! People give free reign for the vigilantes to shoot scum.


(OOC: The "news" are based on the decisions taken on issues and of course, biased and with exaggerated outcomes of the decisions. This is a better way I devised to bump this thread ;))
Third Spanish States
16-11-2007, 22:46
EDDNet Independent Journalists

Informing everything that matters since the the dawn of the nation.

Latest news:


Population density alarming. Heated discussions happening on electronic EDDNet message boards while no solution is agreed on.
"Medicine for everyone" project engulfs private pharmaceutical sector.
Eugenics program becomes reality! Anyone can now have "designer babies", Christians protest heavily against the project and march on many streets.
After years of private healthcare dominance, Universal Healthcare system is approved and under way.
Scientists dabble in genetic engineering and animal cloning and bring 100 millions years old extinct species to life.
Space Elevator project approved, billions invested in R&D to bring the Confederacy to the stars.
Shiloba
16-11-2007, 22:57
You have quite the nation there! Perhaps we could establish trade? We have many resources to offer.

Thanks,
President Atar Algahar
Gurguvungunit
14-01-2008, 05:02
Wow, this is hardcore cool. Um, you should talk to Beth Gellert (the nation name). I think you and he could have long, fascinating discussions about your nations.
The Grand World Order
29-01-2008, 04:23
Well, your nation and mine are certainly the opposites, political-wise. We don't care about the enviroment, we oppress the left and non-humans (Kitsunes, nekoes, furries, etc., thus creating a fascist nation), we don't like Communism that much, the police are out in excessive force, et cetera.

Also, our citizens tend to slightly discriminate agianst racial minorities. The Government is heavily anti-Affirmative Action.
Third Spanish States
29-01-2008, 06:37
Well, your nation and mine are certainly the opposites, political-wise. We don't care about the enviroment, we oppress the left and non-humans (Kitsunes, nekoes, furries, etc., thus creating a fascist nation), we don't like Communism that much, the police are out in excessive force, et cetera.

Also, our citizens tend to slightly discriminate agianst racial minorities. The Government is heavily anti-Affirmative Action.

I think this will clarify lots of things, there is no "official" Law in Third Spanish States but a Common Law, a group of beliefs on how to solve certain issues shared by most of its people, do exist, and it is a way to show Third Spanish States is not as Utopian or "liberal" as it seems to be at first glance, these are only a few of the several beliefs of its population, but they explain well the way things are addressed inside it.



On Crime and Safety
No would-be Dictators Alive
No Murderers or equally heinous scum Alive
There is no rehabilitation to corruption.
A bullet to the head is more humane and cheap than Jails. All have the right to live free and die free.
No surveillance, only sousveillance
A camera inside someone's home is like a secret police officer knocking in.
You can claim to be a victim of persecution when you are exiled by a military Junta, now when you are ostracized by the people of an entire place, you are just a prick.

On Education and Welfare
Rehabilitation is less important than Education
Know at least 3 languages, it helps with internationalism.
College-level education is a must for every citizen... we can bring immigrants for the jobs nobody wants anyway... until some coop develops a robot to do them.
Affirmative Action? Universities for everyone is a better idea.
Everybody has the right to eat and have where to live
Hospitals are private for those who can afford and public for those who need.
Always make your own private savings for retirement and social welfare... it avoids corruption, is more efficient and always cheaper.

On Economics
There is no difference between a capitalist and a thief
You cannot own what you don't use.
The difference between a cooperative and a corporation is the same difference between democracy and fascism. But rather than going to the firing squad, if you dissent or question hierarchical authorities in the latter you're just fired.
A free market for a monopoly to grow does not remain free for much longer, a free market where monopolies are forbidden isn't entirely free. Therefore whenever the words capitalism and free market appear in the same sentence, expect doublespeak.
Everyone must born equal in wealth. Inheritances are breeding grounds for vagabonds.
Whether to embrace communism or mutualism is up to you... you can always move from a communist to a mutualist commune and vice-versa if you don't like what you see in yours.
There are no environmental laws, people just knows who pollutes and who doesn't and remind of it when choosing a merchandise to purchase.
A coop can sell whatever merchandise it wants for how much their members decide to charge, provided it accompanies the market average and the intense regard of the consumers for ethics.

On Justice
Lawyers are liars. The only judge of a scum is its victim or are its victims.
If you have evidence of an heinous crime or caught someone red-handed doing it, it's your legitimate right to put a bullet on that criminal's head.
Minor criminals are just to be ostracized, either to a no man's land or to an insulated community of former criminals where perhaps they might learn to live in cooperation among themselves to survive and prosper... or maybe steal each other's food instead.

On Gun Control
An armed society is a free one.
If you turn your pick-up into a technical, you get 15% off in most gas stations.
Anybody could buy even a fighter aircraft... if anybody could afford having one.
Belonging to a Militia is a great sign of honor and worth.
Some say everything becomes very dangerous for civilians during wars in places where everybody have as many guns as they can afford, but when the civilians would rather fight to death, what's the point in disarming them to make things easier for invaders?

On Civilian Rights and Duties
Do what thou wilt, but bear the consequences
You can do anything you want in public... but anyone can record what you did and put it in Youtube.
As long as your belief doesn't involve killing people for gods(besides yourself), you can believe in whatever you wish.
One should not be forbidden of harming oneself. Legalize it!
Dress codes are for snobs... hang it loose!
Any 12 years old knows enough to be in the age of consent these days.
Marriage is just an indication of preference, not of exclusivity.
There are more ways of organizing society than just nuclear families. All ways are welcome.
Anti-racism laws? Freedom of speech comes first, but nothing is blocking you from giving a lesson to that racist scum who called you a "******" or "Jew thief". Just don't kill him, OK?

On Immigration
Don't trust immigrants, there might be spies among them.
Immigrants can come and go at any time... we just don't trust them enough to immediately grant them citizenship rights... but they can prove they are decent people.
We check criminal records before accepting you... because of criminals we are already full.

On Information Technology and Media
Trolling or spamming in the EDDNet decision-making forums might result in a temp ban. "Freedom of Speech Violation!" arguments are dumb because there is the EDDNet's /b/ for this type of stuff anyway.
Lying in journalism isn't forbidden, but neither it is to mass boycott such newspapers.

On Foreign Relations and Trade
Freedom without socialism is privilege, Socialism without freedom is slavery. Between both the latter is always worse, so it's better to befriend the first... or neither.
There are no import restrictions, other than the fact people tend to first be informed about the conditions of the workplace where a merchandise was manufactured before buying it. And between a cheap low quality crap from a China sweatshop or semi-slave labor factory and a more expensive high quality national product done by a Coop, it's obvious which they would choose.

On Autonomy
If you find and settle any overseas no man's land, you can immediately declare its independence from Third Spanish States, we'll gladly recognize it. Just don't close your borders... we have much more to gain by sharing rather than being isolated.
The opinion of the majority doesn't matter in the commune of the minority.
Anyone can found new communes, anyone can live by themselves rather than in one. A free society is an entirely voluntary one.
Disagree with the opinion of the majority? Nothing forces you to financially support its implementation, just don't try to hinder it.
Don't be afraid to build your own inner society: As the Christian city of Fátima shows, you have the legitimate right to build your autonomous conservative utopia and ostracize "sodomites" from there, as long as it is done with your own efforts.
Third Spanish States
26-08-2008, 08:39
Notorious Cities

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Tucker

Tucker is the largest area, biggest, most populated and most developed industrial and commercial megacity of Third Spanish States, with a bustling population of 45 millions, and among the largest cities of the world. Located a few miles southwest of the large harbor metropolis of Hampshire Haven, it is characterized by concentrating most of Third Spanish States population of English ethnic origins, also being logically the region where English is the most spoken language. More than 10% of Third Spanish States GDP is originated from Tucker.

For a city of its dimensions, it features commendable standards and a large quantity of parks and green areas amidst the grey of towering structures and of its three monolithic arcologies. Despite technically having a free market economy, the significant quantity of cooperative federations have soon worked to drastically minimize income inequalities between the most and least successful cooperatives, and as of today Tucker's economy is made by multiples organizations which put cooperation ahead of competition. Its primary problems are the issue of the radioactive waste of its nuclear powerplants, something faced by the entire Confederacy due to its power being mostly provided by nuclear plants, and the rampant criminality of 2038. Regarding the latter, drastic measures have led to much smaller problems this year, with most of them being related to Third Spanish States anonymous servers being used as proxy servers for international hackers to steal from bank accounts, and due to the given belief that bankers don't deserve their wealth, permanently unsolved.

The city have many similarities to London, except for its heavily libertine tendencies and for the total lack of surveillance cameras other than those personally carried by citizens. Or for the complete lack of an official police, of traffic signs, of anything that could imply authority, coupled with the common practiced of carrying firearms by the average Joe. It is a haven for counter-culture, and graffiti art can be seen painted into its skyscrapers, walls and even on the pavements with the ever-present "Big A" seen around, making of it a much more colorful metropolis than usual. In fact, revolutionary messages and counter-culture virtually replace the scenery that would otherwise be filled with advertisements, although a few cooperatives actually advertise their products, using a similar style. There is a certain cyberpunk aesthetic to the overall look of the city, with a few neighborhoods having covers on the sky like the Sony Center in Berlin (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/SonyCenterAtNight.jpg/250px-SonyCenterAtNight.jpg), except for the dirty and grim Dystopia part. On the hacker and crime themes of cyberpunk however, it fits quite well.

On public transports, buses are completely shunned because they do not ease the traffic as well as those means which do not depend on pavement do, and because they are a symbol of a time where the same were associated with social inequality and poverty. Instead, the most commonly used mean of public transport are the ever-present MagLev monorails, with some of their terminals built integrated with the skyways of its common skyscrapers as a way to further optimize transit. Skyways are extremely common between different buildings, and in regions of high densities multiple skyways are built between the same floors of some buildings, with a few being as long as bridges. In Tucker Downtown is entirely possible to reach anywhere through them and through the Monorail stations linked to them.

However, the prime example of transportation lie with the multi-billionaire investments of the Arcologies. Megastructures designed as an ultimate way of coping with the extremely high population densities of the Confederacy and their inherent issues, they can get past a kilometer in height, with each of their sections housing everything from buildings to parks, and a series of monorails and mass elevators in a highly planned pattern intended have made individual transport entirely obsolete inside the same. Also developed to research life support systems for applications in the far future, the arcologies are self-sufficient biospheres, protected by layers of elements able of keeping even radioactive fallout at bay, and extending to a few underground levels. These wonders of engineering are the most paradisiac places to live, but as whoever comes first gets it, and as few ever leave making their ownership over their former residences void, there are lines of people willing to take a residence in them, although those became slightly smaller as people became aware that improving their own neighborhoods was the most noble option rather than going where the grass is greener.

Numbers

Population: 45 million
Infrastructure: Proto-ecumenopolis
Area: 15,000 km²
Density: 3,000/km²
Number of Arcologies: 3
Population residing in Arcologies: 9 million
Pollution: Low to Moderate
Environmental Issues: Radioactive waste.
Power consumption: 37,500 Terawatts-hour/month
Number of Parks: 45,000

Economy: Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, Services
Economic System: Mutualist free market
GDP: US$ 2.25 trillions
GDP per capita: US$ 50,000
Human Development Index: 0.99
Gini Index: 5.3%
Highest to lowest income ratio: 1.6
Social Classes: Virtually classless

Crime: High
Common Crimes: Computer crimes, fraud, money laundering, pedophilia.
Number of Reported Crimes: 1,802,300 (2038)
Criminals Rehabilitated: 800,000 (2038)
Criminals Ostracized: 500,000 (2038)
Criminals Killed: 350,000 (2038)
Number of Prisons: 0

(OOC: More soon)