NationStates Jolt Archive

[OOC: This follows the conference here (http://www.forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=540832) dedicated to basic policy reforms.]

New Masada, Provisional Capital of the Free Republic of Kahanistan

"You can't be serious!" said Communist Senator Karim Muhammad Assam. "You want to destroy our system and let all manner of Praetonians, Vetalians, and Lord only knows what other capitalists you can cram onto a boat and ship here, and reduce us to the status of slaves?"

"Not slaves," replied Senate President Mohammed Hussein Abdullah of the Green Party. "Labourers. We would naturally receive a reasonable wage, at least enough to survive on. All we need is to establish foreign economic zones, not turn our whole nation into some corporate nightmare. That is, after all, the very definition of fascism."

"Before we can become strong, we must know what our resources are," said Senator Alyssa Petrova. "Right now, our resource is our labour market. We have millions of people desiring employment, and with only a meagre allocation of the generous foreign aid we have, we can import large amounts of raw materials for public works projects - housing projects, factories, hospitals, and nuclear plants. We still have much skilled labour; many of us here are scientists, engineers, doctors, computer programmers... we aren't just manual labourers here, not that we don't need any. I move that we make a deal with these powers."

"You're mad," said fellow Nationalist Frank Snider, head of the Nationalist Party. "The Praetonians are close allies of Questers, which attacked us for no reason and collaborate with the Doomani."

"We aren't lily white ourselves," replied Petrova. "We bombed Northfordian civilians, crucified prisoners of war like Doomani, watched as Catholics were persecuted... abandoned our allies to the Atopians... I'd like to reform this nation, too, but we have to have an economy first so we can have a nation."

Assam spoke. "Nobody is saying we can't have an economy. Why Praetonia? Why not simply become a protectorate of the World Soviet Party? We have similar policies, and would be firm allies once we are strong."

"I don't think they can survive against the Doomani," said Snider. "Even if they do, there won't be enough left of them to resist the ironically-named The People's Freedom. Relations are all well and good, and I hope they do fight them off... but I don't have a lot of hope for them."

"All in favour?" asked Abdullah.

The Kahanistanian Senate passed the Comprehensive Economic and Foreign Policy Reform Act of 2007 by a vote of 457 to 32. The text of the CEFPRA read as follows:

Be it resolved on the 20th day of October 2007, in light of the numerous economic, foreign, cultural, and political changes that have occurred in recent history, that the following legislation is adopted:

Special Economic Zones shall be established in New Masada and in Major Settlements One through Ten. Within these Special Economic Zones, foreign corporations will be permitted to establish businesses to employ Kahanistanian labour for the advancement of the economy, in accordance with foreign labour law and Kahanistanian safety law.

Disputes regarding the Special Economic Zones may be brought to the Kahanistanian Ministry of Labour by a wronged labourer or by a business utilising a Special Economic Zone.

One half trillion shekels will be allocated to purchase raw materials, chiefly hemp, steel, concrete, and uranium, for the construction of public works projects, housing and nuclear power plants.

A further one hundred billion shekels will be allocated to the creation of an Embassy District in New Masada. Two hundred billion will be allocated to the planting of high-energy food crops. Fifty billion shekels will be allocated to the funding of an education programme for Kahanistanian civilian and military diplomats to attend foreign diplomatic training institutes of nations willing to collaborate with Kahanistan.

This law may be cited as the Comprehensive Economic and Foreign Policy Reform Act of 2007.

OOC: Wow, I feel honoured that you considered becoming a protectorate of The World Soviet Party, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy :p

But anyways, you could just join the Soviet Commonwealth, there's a link in my signature if you are interested.

Aurum Domus Department of Commerce

The state owned corporation, Aurum Doman National Mining Corp., would like to establish business in Kahanistan. We can help mine any natural resources you posess, the number of jobs are only limited to how much resources you have. Please respond so we can make a deal regarding mining rights, facility construction, etc.

Sincerely,

Lanus Popinski

Official Statement from the Free Republic of Kahanistan

The Government of Kahanistan is most willing to allow Aurum Doman mining corporations to do business in Kahanistan. Please fill out and submit the attached Form MC-792, Request for Use of Special Economic Zone.

I must apologise for the rudeness of the Foreign Minister. She is ill-suited for the position and is notoriously confrontational.

Signed,
Angus McKimble,
Minister of Commerce

Form MC-792

Name of Corporation:
Nationality of Corporation:
Type of Corporation:
Hiring Policy:
Lowest Wage: (weekly)
Average Wage: (weekly)
Highest Wage: (weekly)
Types of Jobs:
Union Policy:
Policy on Wage and Employment Nondiscrimination based on Age, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Weight, Ethnicity, Citizenship, National Origin, Race, Religion, Creed, Political Alignment, Colour, Disability or Veteran Status:

Form MC-792

Name of Corporation: Vetalian Petroleum
Nationality of Corporation: Vetalian
Type of Corporation: Petroleum production, refining, and trading.
Hiring Policy: Like all Vetalian companies, merit is the sole determinant of hiring.
Lowest Wage: 100 rubles per week (1 ruble equals $2.20 USD)
Average Wage: 300 rubles per week
Highest Wage: 1,500 rubles per week
Types of Jobs: Petroleum engineering, drilling crews, energy trading, distribution.
Union Policy: Unions are permitted, although private unions are preferred over state-owned organizations.
Non-discrimination Policy: The sole determinant of employment is the quality of work. Merit is the underpinning value of Vetalian work culture.

Name of Corporation: Bank of Vetalia
Nationality of Corporation: Vetalian
Type of Corporation: Financial and Banking Services
Hiring Policy: We hire the best workers for the job. All hiring is based solely on merit.
Lowest Wage: 250 rubles per week (1 ruble equals $2.20 USD)
Average Wage: 500 rubles per week
Highest Wage: 2,500 rubles per week
Types of Jobs: Clerical, settlement officers, banking services, financial services, loans. Arbitration, logistics, and purchasing positions are also open.
Union Policy: Vetalian companies have no qualms about unionization.
Non-discrimination policy: The sole determinant of employment is the quality of the employee's work.

Vetalian Petroleum and the Bank of Vetalia are approved. We continue to await the reply from Aurum Doman National Mining Corporation.

Reponse from The Lone Alliance.
We applaud the decision of the nation of Kahnistan to turn themselves into a nation where corporations who are allied with your arch enemies use underpaid laborers while slowly but surely seizing control from within...

OOC: Are you still at war?

Form MC-792

Name of Corporation: Cape Wrath Shipyards
Nationality of Corporation: Londinian
Type of Corporation: Ship production and repair.
Hiring Policy: Merit and dedication.
Lowest Wage: 210 denarii weekly (1 denarii equals $1.70 USD)
Average Wage: 500 denarii weekly
Highest Wage: 2000 denarii weekly
Types of Jobs: Shipbuilding (unskilled labour), accounting, sales, human resources.
Union Policy: Unions are permitted, and, to a degree, encouraged.
Non-discrimination Policy: Willingness to work and high qualifications are the only factors in the hiring process.

[OOC: No. My economy was destroyed by the war and Doom took over my Haven lands. Basically this thread is about the reform of the economy and rebuilding out on some island somewhere.]

IC:

Cape Wrath Shipyards is approved. The Government of Kahanistan wishes your people well in their struggle for survival.

Angus McKimble,
Minister of Commerce

Name of Corporation: Buy & Sell Incorporated
Nationality of Corporation: Vantanian
Type of Corporation: Manufacturing
Hiring Policy: Merit and Need
Lowest Wage: (weekly) 630 Universal Standard Dollars (Laborer/Shipping)
Average Wage: (weekly) 1,000 Universal Standard Dollars (Accounting)
Highest Wage: (weekly) 10,000 Universal Standard Dollars (Management)
Types of Jobs: Labor, Management, Accounting, Shipping
Union Policy: All employees are encouraged to join a union
Non-Discrimination Policy: People advance and fall based on their merits and capabilities as determined by the individual management offices.

Buy and Sell Incorporated is approved.

Imperial Central Bank plc. leads the charge to modernise Kahanistan
Confederation of Praetonian Industry brands Kahanistani reforms "encouraging but limited"

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Praetonian investment in the Kahanistani Special Economic Zones is expected to reach several trillion Crowns.
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From 'The Herald'
Front Page

News that Kahanistan is to partially liberalise its internal economy has been greeted with cautious welcome by the Confederation of Praetonian industry, which supports the changes but insists that "more must be done" if the Kahanistani economy is to rebuild from its present state of terrible poverty. The Prime Minister has congratulated the move to liberalise trade between Kahanistan and Praetonia and also the intention to spend some of the healthy foreign endowment Kahanistan has received on constructive productive industry.

Several Praetonian companies in the retail, construction and manufacturing sectors have already begun plans to construct branches in the Kahanistan 'special economic zones,' with even impressive high-value infrastructure projects such as airports and seaports being planned by Imperial Central Bank plc. where sites are favourable. Farthingtons' Ltd., Praetonia's largest department store and supermarket chain, has said that "Kahanistan is an excellent potential market," and that the chain intends to "bring low-cost imported food to the starving masses in Kahanistan."

In addition to direct business investment, many property firms are planning high density residential areas in the Special Economic Zones, where land is expected to become scarce as businesses and Kahanistanis struggle to secure a place in what are expected to become islands of prosperity in a sea of continuing poverty. An Imperial Central Bank press release hinted that a 200-storey tower may be funded by the bank, which sees Special Economic Zone land as a huge potential windfall investment.

As well as low-skilled employment, many high-tech Praetonian businesses are also considering expanding into Kahanistan to take advantage of the skilled workforce that is said to have been evacuated from the Doomingslandi invasion. Two Praetonian industrial giants, Consolidated Fission plc. and Imperial Atomworks plc., have expressed their intention to bid for Kahanistan government nuclear contracts, promising a "quality, made-in-Kahanistan-by-Kahanistanis product available at an affordable price." Imperial Oil & Gas is rumoured to be in the planning phases for the construction of a large engine factory and design workshop in Kahanistan.

Smaller companies, however, are steering clear of the failed state, with many addressing the CPI Free Trade Congress with issues of long-term security of the SEZ conditions, the price of SEZ land and the availability of workforce. Many have also expressed concerns over the foreign policy of Kahanistan itself, which it is feared may bring a fourth destructive invasion that could wipe out their investments.

[OOC: Im not going to fill in a bunch of forms because it would take forever given that maybe a few dozen companies will be interested. However I can give a generalised answer: my companies will optimise their business practises to make optimum profit in so far as it is legal but they will not knowingly break your laws. They will make all reasonable concessions to the Kahanistani government position.

Anyway, Im going away for the weak so I probaby wont be able to respond to this strand of RPs again until Saturday :(]

OOC: Praetonia, you're using the exact same image I did in my NSWiki article for the reconstruction of Vetalia...I imagine we did the exact same image search.

Vetalian Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber of Commerce would be interested in discussing the possibility of further cooperation between our organization and the Confederation of Praetonian Industry. As the biggest industry organization in Vetalia and one of the largest in the world, greater cooperation between our organizations would allow us to negotiate for further liberalization of the Kahanistani economy and to expand the market share that Praetonian and Vetalian companies hold in this market.

Two of our member companies, Bank of Vetalia and Vetalian Petroleum, are already operating in the country and have expressed their interest for some form of joint venture.

With the approval of numerous foreign companies to do business in Kahanistan, the inflation of the shekel stopped at 1 KS = $0.14 and held. Only time would tell if the inflation would reverse itself.

Kahanistanian workers employed in the special economic zones would, of course, pay income taxes which would fund the public works projects, the recruitment of unemployed individuals who could not find jobs in the SEZ's, and pay them to build houses and gradually remove the unsightly shacks in the capital. But first, workers would be required to build the infrastructure of the corporations...

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In a press release yesterday, CEO Dilbert F. Chairman of the Acme Corporation announced that Acme would be investing in the new Kahanistani Special Economic Zones, and that labourers had already been contracted to build the first Acme factory in the region. The manufacturing giant already operates in thirteen countries, nine of which were small and formerly impoverished before Acme stepped in; while Mr. Chairman admits that those nations are still small and only slightly less impoverished, he notes that he expects their economies to continue to grow over the next few years.

Acme, the world's largest manufacturer of 200-foot-long rubber bands, rocket sleds, Insta-Tornado™ pills, itching powder, giant kites, oversized magnets, and nonlethal explosive rockets, was founded in the 1960s and features arguably the widest variety of products. Some claim that Acme's phenomenal success is only due to its virtual monopoly over the novelties market; however, its extraordinarily speedy delivery and product quality certainly help.

The Acme Corporation's headquarters are currently located within the nation of the same name, a 750-acre sovereignty located within the Holy Jingoistic Federation of Unaligned Nations of Vojvodina-Nihon, also a comparatively small and technologically backward nation, to which Acme is the #1 supplier of swords, lances, halberds, spears, axes, arrows, crossbows, and longbows.

- International Press

Name of Corporation: Mackenzie Mineral Corp.
Nationality of Corporation: Bredfordian
Type of Corporation: A mining company.
Hiring Policy: High-quality people.
Lowest Wage: (weekly) 1,200 Universal Dollars (Field labour positions)
Average Wage: (weekly) 2,000 Universal Dollars (Field Management positions)
Highest Wage: (weekly) 50,000 Universal Dollars (Management positions)
Types of Jobs: miners, "office" managers, field job managers, security regulators, security man.
Union Policy: Allows unions.
Policy on Wage and Employment Nondiscrimination based on: Veterans are often granted higher wage.

Mackenzie Mineral Corporation is approved.

To the Free Republic of Kahanistan

Form MC-792

Name of Corporation: Stoklomolvi National Bank
Nationality of Corporation: Stoklomolvi
Type of Corporation: Banking
Hiring Policy: All who have favourable résumés
Lowest Wage: 150 Universal Standard Dollars per week
Average Wage: 280 Universal Standard Dollars per week
Highest Wage: 1800 Universal Standard Dollars per week
Types of Jobs: Bank Teller, Vault Guard, Accountant, Financial Assets Manager, etc.
Union Policy: Highly discouraged
Policy on Wage and Employment: None are discriminated

Regards,
Grigor Aleksandrovich Stuyonovich
Civilian Management
Minister of Foreign Affairs

Stoklomolvi National Bank is approved.

Form MC-792

Name of Corporation: Seven Nations Minerals Corporation
Nationality of Corporation: Saldari/Macisikani
Type of Corporation: Mining, shipping
Hiring Policy: Merit-based

Wage information is for generic unskilled labour: skilled labour rates are higher
Lowest Wage: (weekly) ∂250/week (1∂ = US$2.14)
Average Wage: (weekly) ∂662.30/week
Highest Wage: (weekly) ∂960/week + performance bonuses (maximum value of ∂2,190/week)
Penalty rates, holiday loadings, sick leave, etc., apply.

Types of Jobs: Casual, part-time/full-time unskilled; loaders/unloaders, forklift drivers, general hands, refitters, truck drivers, short-order cooks, kitchen hands, bar and service staff, housekeepers, waitpersons, baristas. Short-term contracts to skilled personnel (engineers, surveyors, etc.) offered on an "as-needed" basis.
Apprenticeships in trades and management traineeships will be offered to the right people.
Union Policy: Guilds are permitted.
Policy on Wage and Employment: Only persons aged 14 years 9 months (with parental consent) to 80 may apply (not negotiable; this required compliance with Covenant Trade Practices Code [employment of foreign citizens]). Non-humans need not apply. Relevant qualifications/licenses are required. No other limitations applied.

SNMC would be using its Kahanistani Depot as a re-distribution and refuelling point for various shipping and mining investments. At this point employment of local personnel would be entirely unskilled, however, depending on development of the Kahanistan Redistribution Node, the possibility for skilled labour employment opportunities exists.

Name of Corporation:Thew Bank of the Blue Isle
Nationality of Corporation: New Brittonian
Type of Corporation: Banking and investiment corporation, in this specific case microcredit, telecom, internet, and textile manufacturing will be included.
Hiring Policy: The Bank of the Blue Isle's hiring policy follows that created of former President Larry Talmud:
Our employees give us theur daily best, in return for good compensation and benefits, advancement and a work enviornment that is stable, fair and friendly
Lowest Wage: (weekly): 600 New Pound Sterling (US$ 857.16)
Average Wage: (weekly) 1.688,5 New Pound Sterling (US$ 2.412,19)
Highest Wage: (weekly) 25.000 New Pound Sterling (US$ 35.715)
Types of Jobs: Managment positions, clerical, janatorial, technical
Union Policy: Yes, encouraged
Policy on Wage and Employment Nondiscrimination based on Age, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Weight, Ethnicity, Citizenship, National Origin, Race, Religion, Creed, Political Alignment, Colour, Disability or Veteran Status:

The Bank of the Blue Isle is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, pregnancy, military or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by state or federal law.

This policy also prohibits employees from harassing any other employees for any reason including, but not limited to, race, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disabled status.

Name of Corporation: Sheepwich's Homestyle Sheepburgers 'n Shwarma (a division of Porkwich's Homestyle Porkburgers, Inc.)

Nationality of Corporation: Menelmacari

Type of Corporation: Franchised Fast Food Restaurants. Porkwich's usual menu primarily involves heavily pork-based dishes, but due to local religious sensibilities in Kahanistan, they will be substituting sheep, and also experimenting with a new shwarma menu that, if successful, will be rolled out in other markets as well.

Hiring Policy: Merit for employees. In an effort to boost the Kahanistani economy we are requiring that our franchisees in the Kahanistani market be of Kahanistani citizenship. Porkwich's will manage corporate aspects of Sheepwich's directly from its Vinyatírion headquarters.

Lowest Wage: (weekly): varies, starting positions are part-time at M€3.000/hour. (three credits. One M€ = ~US$2.50, and is divided into one thousand millicredits.)
Average Wage: (weekly): M€100.000/week.
Highest Wage: (weekly): Top company officials in Kahanistan would be district managers at approximately M€750.000/week.
All pay rates are quoted in Menelmacari credits but will be paid in the then-current equivalent in Kahanistani currency.

Types of Jobs: Management, entrepreneurial, cooking, service

Union Policy: Highly discouraged.

Policy on Wage and Employment Nondiscrimination: Franchisees must be Kahanistani citizens. Franchisees make hiring decisions at the restaurant level. Corporate positions are merit-based and will likely be Menelmacari nationals, hired internally.

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Name of Corporation: Fëanor Holdings Group

Nationality of Corporation: Menelmacari

Type of Corporation: Vast multi-industrial conglomerate, one of the world's largest. Activities in Kahanistan will be primarily revolving around import-export and construction. Shipping activities will involve gravitic heavy freighters designed to be compatible with standard maritime port facilities worldwide. FHG's construction division is also skilled in just about any sort of infrastructure contract, from superhighways to suburban residential to milespires to orbital asteroid shipyards to sewer systems. You name it, they'll build it, for the right price.

Hiring Policy: Merit for employees. In an effort to boost the Kahanistani economy we are encouraging as Kahanistani-heavy a workforce as possible. Skilled and unskilled workers will be required. Shipboard personnel in shipping division will remain Menelmacari, dockside workers almost entirely Kahanistani.

Lowest Wage: (weekly): M€300.000/week.
Average Wage: (weekly): M€500.000/week.
Highest Wage: (weekly): M€10,000.000/week.
All pay rates are quoted in Menelmacari credits but will be paid in the then-current equivalent in Kahanistani currency. Low and average pay rates listed are for unskilled labor; skilled workers, obviously, will receive more. Performance incentives and bonuses are also offered.

Types of Jobs: Management, construction, trades, shipping.

Union Policy: Highly discouraged.

Policy on Wage and Employment Nondiscrimination: Merit entirely; skilled and unskilled personnel required.

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Name of Corporation: Siri-Mart Kahanistan, Inc.

Nationality of Corporation: Menelmacari

Type of Corporation: Retail department stores - think Wal-Mart, only with more stuff. In Kahanistan we will be testing a new franchised retail business model.

Hiring Policy: Merit for employees. In an effort to boost the Kahanistani economy we are requiring that our franchisees in the Kahanistani market be of Kahanistani citizenship. Siri-Mart's corporate aspects will be managed directly from its parent company's Vinyatírion headquarters.

Lowest Wage: (weekly): varies, starting positions are part-time at M€3.250/hour. (three-and-a-quarter credits.)
Average Wage: (weekly): M€150.000/week.
Highest Wage: (weekly): Top company officials in Kahanistan would be district managers at approximately M€800.000/week.
All pay rates are quoted in Menelmacari credits but will be paid in the then-current equivalent in Kahanistani currency.

Types of Jobs: Management, entrepreneurial, sales, service

Union Policy: Highly discouraged.

Policy on Wage and Employment Nondiscrimination: Franchisees must be Kahanistani citizens. Franchisees make hiring decisions at the store level. Corporate positions are merit-based and will likely be Menelmacari nationals, hired internally.

Seven Nations Minerals Corporation, The Bank of the Blue Isle, Sheepwich's Homestyle Sheepburgers 'n Shwarma, Fëanor Holdings Group, and Siri-Mart Kahanistan, Inc. are approved.

Speech by Alexander Kirillovich Kazansky, President of the United States, at the opening of the Henry Ford Memorial Automotive Factory in Kahanistan

My dear friends, I would like to remind you here today of a great man who helped destroy Soviet Communism. That man is not, as you might think, Ronald Reagan. That man is Henry Ford.

Henry Ford was not a good man. He hated Jews and supported fascism. But he had one redeeming quality. He wanted money. And for that reason, he created a means to put every man in America on wheels. He did not invent the private automobile, but he made it so that every man could afford one. And by that means, he destroyed any kind of chance for socialism in America – and eventually led to America's victory in the Cold War.

Just as public transport is inherently communitarian, the private automobile is inherently individualist and bourgeois. It is not only a luxury of sorts, it allows the owner an unprecedented level of freedom – he can choose precisely where he wants to go, instead of only stopping at the bus stops or train stations. He can travel in privacy, not sharing his personal space with strangers. He owns an investment. And finally, cars encourage people to settle in private homes, not hive-like appartment buildings – encouraging private property on land and discouraging government monitoring.

Old America, to which Allaneans proudly trace their origins, and Allanea itself, have had their urban growth, their social development, their very ideologies and cultures shaped by the omnipresent automobile – privacy instead of CCTVs in public transport, private homes instead of appartment hives, land property instead of overregulation, freedom rather than slavery.

Enabling the private individuals to own their own means of transport is as important to individual freedom as enabling them to own effective weapons or have access to the free press.

It is in this spirit that I open here the first Kazansky Heavy Industries factory on Kahanistani soil. It will produce copies of the Developing Area Automobile, Mark 1.

But this factory is not for my personal profit. I hereby endow this place with three billion dollars – in order to producee one million DAA-1 machines, and deliver them to one million Kahanistani households, free of charge. This is a first step – to ensure that eventually, the whole country is on wheels, and that the entire country is free.

I will do more than this. An additional eight hundred million dollars will be spent on giving free driving lessons to the citizens of Kahanistan, to enable them to use the DAA-1 and other vehicles of their choice.

Because choice, my friends, is the operative word here. Choice is what Allanea is all about. Because, deep down, 'choice' is a simpler-sounding word for 'freedom'.

That is all, my friends.

May God bless Kahanistan, and may God continue to bless Allanea.

With the recent elections that had put a communist president in charge, attitudes toward Allanea were somewhat worse than they had been. While the people were willing to accept the vehicles and facilities, for the most part, the president saw Allanea as trying to culturally expand again, and saw Kazansky himself as a mass murderer and terrorist who had left Kahanistan to fall to the Doomani and their allies. Even the nationalists who had supported the alliance earlier now took a dimmer view of the state.

However, the import of vehicles would improve the economy somewhat, creating jobs that did not require S.E.Z.'s, and allowing more people access to said jobs.

In the meanwhile, Alexander Kazansky did not rest. He ordered his aide – the famous pilot, Priscilla Conde – who, among other things, was famous for making millions off advertising motorbikes after her military career, as well as killing more Doomani single-handedly than any other person (except, of course, Emperor Maximus) – to coordinate a major book buy.

And so, some of that vast amount of Wagdian gold Alex possessed began to go into books.

There would be ten billion copies of various books, ordered printed by the Samizdat Corporation and delivered to every house in Kahanistan, distributed like candy – or like phonebooks, whichever you like.

The books were: Hazlitt's 'Economics in One Lesson', Ayn Rand's 'Athlas Shrugged', Heinlein's 'Tunnel in the Sky' and 'Time Enough for Love', Milton Friedman's 'Capitalism and Freedom', Ludwig von Mises' 'The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality ' and 'Bureaucracy', Al-Ghazi's 'On the Amestrians and Their Lies', Nozick's 'Anarchy, State, and Utopia' and, finally, Kazansky's own 'How Allanea Was Founded'. One could not say that the President lacked ego altogether.

To distribute the books and print them would cost 120 billion dollars in total, but that wasn't enough for the Boy-President. He purchased server space from a Kahanistani Internet providers, and made those books – and over 10,000 others – available as free downloads.

And finally, he donated two billion dollars for the construction of new campus buildings at the Kahanistani National University.

Samizdat Corporation accepted the order, although the executives and workers were a bit shocked at being asked to push pro-Allanean propaganda. It was, however, up to the citizenry to decide what to do with the ideas they were to be exposed to. While the corporation did have a philosophy - that everyone had an equal right to information, free of censorship - that philosophy was not as hostile to Allanea as much of the sentiment in the government.

Within a week, the last of the books were printed and millions of poor, innocent trees were brutally slaughtered to make the ten billion books. The Internet provider was all too happy to sell server space to Kazansky to line their coffers.

Kahanistanian construction workers reveled at the new infusion of wealth as they began working on college campi all over the nation. Of course, they often spent the newfound cash on hookers and booze, especially the prostitutes who prowled the Special Economic Zones looking for rich executive johns from the wealthy countries which invested in Kahanistan.

Official Announcement of the Allanean Arms Corporation:

As of today, an Allanean Arms factory will be started in Kahanistan. Should the Kahanistani government grant the appropriate permits, we will proceed to manufacture 20,000,000 Sandstorm SUV's every year in that country.

Official Communique

Fourm MC-792

Name of Corporation: Global Trade Inc
Nationality of Corporation: Zoingo
Type of Corporation: Merchanteering Company
Hiring Policy: Looking for several qualitites, though not all are needed:
1. Having good people skills
2. At least some knoledge in finances
3. Organization
4. A Good Memory
*5. Know how to pilot a small ship
Lowest Wage: (weekly) $ 100.00
Average Wage: (weekly) $ 2000.00
Highest Wage: (weekly) $ 10500.00
(Without Kahanistan taxes)
Types of Jobs:
Merchant---buys Kahanistan made goods, and sells people goods from other countries
Record Keeper--- Keeps track of stocks of items
Warehouse Worker--- Manage goods coming in and out
*Captians--- Navigate ships to export/import goods
Business Representatives--- Travel to HQ to report on status of business
Janitor, Technician--- Keep the place running
Union Policy: Mostly Discouraged
Policy on Wage and Employment Nondiscrimination: Descrimination is never acceptable, and we accept applicants from all walks of life.

Automated Ministry Response

Allanean Arms approved.
Global Trade, Inc. approved.

Form MC-792

Name of Corporation: AEROCON
Nationality of Corporation: Third Spanish States
Type of Corporation: Aerospace Workers Cooperative
Hiring Policy: Both worker skills, ethics and personal needs are considered. The priorities are as following for recruitment.

- Ethics
- Adequate behavior tendencies (spirit of cooperation, comradeship and equality)
- Need
- Skills
- Theoretical Knowledge

We believe that ethics and cooperativism, so rare in a world ridden with exploitive forms of economies, cannot be developed, thus we prioritize them over skills or theoretical knowledge, which are less important than the need of the individual as well, however we will still consider some minimum requirements on skills and knowledge, as due to the lack of fixed hierarchies, AEROCON is much more demanding regarding new associates. However, between someone with a family unemployed for 5 years and someone without a family recently unemployed, provided both possess the minimum skills, the one with greatest need, cooperativist behavior and ethics will be chosen over the other, regardless of the other's skills and knowledge. All candidates must be willing to continually develop their knowledges and skills. Scholarships will be given when needed.

Lowest Wage: No wage policy as all members are also associates of the organization, only equal share of profits and standardized pro-labore of $1,500/month
Average Wage: Not applicable
Highest Wage: Not applicable

Types of Jobs: Mostly in Information Technology, management, aeronautic and electric engineering, as due to heavy automation there are not many assembly line posts. There are no hierarchies or chains of command as the management process is entirely democratic.

Union Policy: Openly supports anarcho-syndicalist organizations and unions known to not be puppets of capitalist interests*
Non-discrimination policy: Political ideology will be taken into account due to the inherent nature of the cooperative and its origins.

Benefits: Equal share of the means of production and of their profits, increased freedom and truly democratic workplace, healthcare, dental care, Scholarships for both members and their families, free access and citizenship to the Confederacy for senior(5 years or more) members, comfortable installations, "mission-based" operational allocation which allows multi-disciplinary members to choose what to work on instead of doing always the same.

Additonal Notes: AEROCON is a sovereign, democratic and pro-socialist private organization linked to the public interest of the Confederacy of Third Spanish States, and thus any of its international installations are considered in the same way as embassies, thus any aggression made against its installations by possible third parties will be considered at best grounds for justifying a full-fledged embargo.

(OOC: *Anything that disrupt the production their capitalist competitors is not only ideologically adequate, but also good for their own business. Also I bet there will be hundreds of thousands lining to join)

Form MC-792

Name of Corporation: Yanitarian Heavy Machinery SOC
Nationality of Corporation: Yanitarian
Type of Corporation: Heavy Machinery Manufacturers
Hiring Policy: Open to those who can do the job best.
Lowest Wage: $200 USD
Average Wage: $500 USD
Highest Wage: $2,000 USD
Types of Jobs: Mainly people are required to construct heavy machinery, although accounting, physician, and managerial positions are also available.
Union Policy: Allowed, however Yanitarian Heavy Machinery does not often negotiate.
Policy on Wage and Employment Nondiscrimination based on Age, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Weight, Ethnicity, Citizenship, National Origin, Race, Religion, Creed, Political Alignment, Colour, Disability or Veteran Status: Wage discrimination is not allowed, and wages are directly related to productivity.