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Ever found yourself faced with problems such as famine, diseases, the drying up of mineral reserves and the desertification of land?
The nation-booster shop is here to help!
With many different products designed to enhance the well-being of your nation, you must surely find something here you wish to buy!

Discounts:
1st Time Buyer: 5%
Nova region member: 5%
Christmas eve sale: 50%
28th November: 20%

Rules:
1) I will do the calculations for you.
2) Do not copy these products: Alfegos has intellectual property on all systems not otherwise marked.
3) Sales will not be performed to nations at war with Alfegos.

Catalogue:
1 - Feeding your nation (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13193288&postcount=2)
2 - Disaster cleanup (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13193288&postcount=3)
3 - Disease control (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13193288&postcount=4)
4 - Mineral systems (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13193288&postcount=5)
5 - Land control systems (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13193288&postcount=6)
6 - Weather control systems (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13193288&postcount=7)
7 - Educational Packages (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13193288&postcount=8)
8 - Infastructure Packages (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13193288&postcount=9)
9 - Nation Packages (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13193288&postcount=10)

1) Feeding your nation

"Ultra-gro" GM crops - $6000 per tonne
By splicing many well known crops with genes taken from bamboo, cereal plants have been made now that will grow in under 1 week to full maturity, then with altered hormonal genes will fruit and go to seed within another two weeks. The end result is a crop that will quickly provide food for a starving nation. Maize, Wheat, Barley, Rye, Rice and Oats are currently available for export.
(Warning: Will quickly remove soil of nutrients, and is altered to grow sterile)

"Invunerable" GM crops - $8000 per tonne
Using hundreds of sourced genes from many different species, the resulting crop is invunerable to practically all current crop pathogens, many pesticides, herbicides and has limited protection against radiation. Comes in any crop you specifiy.
(Warning: Provided sterile)

"Scorcher" GM Crops - $5000 per tonne
Any crop you want, modified to be able to survive the most extremes of temperature. For climates where crops don't grow easily, and you can't afford land modification.
(Warning: Provided Sterile)

Hydroponics Plants - $50 000 per 1 hectare unit
Artifical sunlight and water pumped full of nutrients allow even an ordinary crop to grow quicker, lusher and in a much denser concentration, allowing space, water and fertiliser to be saved. Comes in hectare packs consisting of 5 20x100 metre buildings, each with 2 floors for growing crops and powered by the main grid.

1 week food packs - $20 per head
Contains all vital nutrients and chemicals needed to keep a hard-working body going for a week. Just add water.

Ultra-deep aquifer tap - $1100
Uses a massive shaft, along with a mechanical raising system and storage cistern, to provide water even during the dry season. Comes with cooling system and filtration of chemicals such as arsenic.

Covered reservoir - $8 per cubic metre
For storing water during the dry season. Covered to stop any evaporation loss.

2) Disater Cleanup

Level 1 Cleanup - $800 per square mile
For light damage, slight structural damage, low levels of dangerous chemicals

Level 2 Cleanup - $2000 per square mile
For mid-range damage, moderate structural damage, medium levels of dangerous chemicals

Level 3 Cleanup - $7000 per square mile
For heavy damage, collapsed buildings, high levels of chemicals

Level 4 cleanup - $20 000 per square mile
For utter annihilation, flattened areas, toxic wastes

Prefabbed House - $1000
For a family of 6

Prefabbed emergancy camp - $8000
For up to 600 people

Prefabbed Hospital - $20 000
Equipment supplied, as well as basic drugs

Emergancy medical team - $5000 per month
100 doctors and ancillary staff, with all the equipment they need

3 - Disease Control

Vaccine Investigation and Deployment - $90 000
A team will identify the pathogen causing the disease, and provide drugs/vaccines to stop spread.

Existing Vaccine - $6 per dose
For existing diseases, such as malaria, cholera, typhoid, TB, Influenza (of most strains), plague, Q fever, Rift Valley Fever, Typhus... the list goes on. However, please enquire as to the availability of the vaccine when purchasing, so you are not disappointed.

Medical Mission - $10 000 per month
100 medical personnel, and ancillary staff, with all the equipment they need. A good choice to support other methods of disease control.

Incinerator - $800
For burning contaminated goods, equipment, soil and corpses. Comes with a built-in electricity generator, for producing power from burnt items.

Decontamination - $15000 per square mile
To remove the last traces of spores such as anthrax spores, this method involves topsoil sterilisation, the introduction of spore-eating GM bacteria, the purging of the area with hydrogen peroxide and the removal/incineration of infectious substances/items/corpses.

Quarentine Unit - $30 000
For holding up to 100 contaminated people away from the public. With medical facilities.

Elimination Strike - $40 000
If the disease is out of control, a last resort: the use of a heavy fuel-air bomb against a contaminated area, destroying the virus in the area, at the loss of civilians. A last resort.

"Banana Vaccine" - $6000 per tonne
A banana modifed to hold a vaccine to a disease of your choice: just eat, and soon you will be immune.

4) Mineral Systems

Deep-Crust Mining - $40 000 000
Using a massive drilling machine, a shaft up to 1 kilometre deep can be dug, to allow access to the deepest of reserves.

Mantle Tapping - $52 000 000
In a volcanic area, the mantle can be tapped, and the magma drawn off refined, using a procided station, drill and cooling plant, in which the steam from the water coolant is used to provide power and heating.
(Warning, may cause volcanic eruption if uncontrolled: permanent feature)

Oil Reserve Final Removal unit - $12 000
An upgrade to a current well, uses CO2 or air to force the final dregs of oil out of the well

Coal Gasification Station - $110 000
Using gas pumped into an inaccessable coal reserve, methane is released from the rocks, and then piped back to the surface. Brilliant for a nation with unviable or inaccessable reserves. The area covered by one station is about 300 metres around, and up to 600 metres deep.

Instant Mine Package - $200 000 shaft, $100 000 opencast
For all minerals, if you need a mine fiast, this is the package you want. Prefabbed buildings and machines are including for the extraction of any resource, expanding to any area you want.

5) Land Control Systems

Anti-Desertification Package - $400 per hectare
Using a massive system of rehydration, GM tree planting, soil remodification with GM bacteria and sand removal, this can be used effectivly to reclaim land from the desert. An absolute must for all desert nations.

Marsh/Bog Draining Package - $200 per hectare
Uses ditches, pipes and tree/hedge planting for quick drying out of soil. Useful in marshland areas.

Coastal Erosion Package - $1800 per mile of coastline
Uses sea buffers, cliff strengthening, sea walls and tree planting to hold coastline together, stopping the sea claiming your land.

Sea Reclaimation - $20 000 per square mile normal $5000 per square mile landfill
If you are short on land, why not use this package to get land from the sea? Creating an artificial island, guarenteed stable, you can increase the size of your land quite well. Note that landfill islands may subside, requiring maintenance every year.

6) Weather Control Packages

"Sunshine" Package - $10 000 per week per 100 square miles
Using advanced cloud seeding techniques, rain can be averted in an area, keeping it sunny while you host a big event (say, the Olympics). Comes with free "Rainy Day" package.

"Rainy Day" Package - $10 000 per week per 100 square miles
As above, but causes the rain to fall elsewhere, so that you may water your most arid regions.

"Calm Down" Package - $35 000 per storm
Seeds a storm, causing it to shed all its moisture in a single area, stopping it from moving on.
Note: causes wetness in the region the storm is over when seeded.

Fog Clearance - $8000 per week per square mile
Using early-morning mist seeding, large patches of mist can be cleared, allowing for clear roads and runways.

7) Education Packages

Prefabbed School - $27 000
Comes with equipment and space for up to 200 students, for education of all groups. Teachers not included.

Worker Training - $100 per person
Train a worker in any basic course you wish, such as electrics, plumbing etc.

Higher Education Training - $1000 per person, 9000 places left
A guarenteed place in an Alfegosian university, with courses included in the price up to Masters degree.

8) Infastructure Packages

City Utilites - $0.5 per metre
Includes all utilites in one service pipe, underground. Quick guarenteed construction.

Roads - $720 per mile per lane
With latest surfacing, and quick drainage, this is a must for the backbone of transport in a nation.

Railways - $1110 per mile per track, $520 per mile of overhead cable, $1600 hi-speed track, $2110 per mile of maglev track
For cheap, fast movement of goods across an entire country. Very good for mass haulage, and for reducing pressure on roads.

Airfield - $8000 per terminal, $500 per runway, $200 per traffic control unit
The best for international travel, and a must in the modern world.

Mobile Phone Mast - $980 per mast
The standard of communication in many countries, not requiring wires. Useful for cheap telecommunications.

T.V/Radio Mast - $1200 per mast
For transmitting the good news of your nation.

Bridge - $50 per metre (suspension) $40 per metre (iron box bridge) $30 per metre (stone) $7 (wood)
For crossing rivers, bays, gorges and many other things.

Internet - $0.5 per household dialup $0.8 per household broadband $2 per household "Ultraspeed"
The internet is used for communicating across the planet, and is used thousands of times across the world every millisecond. Going from dial-up connection to 120 Mbs ultra-speed connections for downloading anything almost instantly, it is linked by satellite to the Alfegos service provider, and tehn to the world wide web.

Port - $72 000
For the transferral of goods around the world in bulk, ships still are the mainstay. A port is an essential place where it is all unloaded onto your nation.

9) Nation Packs

Small Town - $12 000 000
For up to 5000 people, with all utilities, links and buildings included. Comes with a school, clinic and shopping area, with small train station.

Large Town - $400 000 000
For up to 60 000 people, with all utilties, and large shopping streets, stations, and with a hospital, and regional headquarters.

City - $3 000 000 000
For up to 300 000 people.

Metropolis - $50 000 000 000
For up to 2 000 000 people

Megapolis - $240 000 000 000
For up to 10 000 000 people.

Border Wall - $4200 per metre
Paranoid about immigrants? Want more control? A border wall is what you need. Comes with a gatepost every 5 miles for free, and comes with empty weapons mounts every few hundred metres.

THis is honestly one of the most creative storfronts I've seen.

Good morning Bump to you all from my country

Bump

We would like to purchase seven(7) Quarantine Units, in preparation for a suspected epidemic that our scientists fear is imminent.

If said epidemic does occur, you may be recieving more of our money. ;)

MOney will be wired immediately upon confirmation of the order.

OOC: There's a problem with your "Ultra-deep aquifer tap", which is this; such an aquifer is composed of so-called "fossil water", which has been sitting under the ground for thousands of years or longer. It will be highly contaminated with minerals, and in some cases heated by geothermal activity so it emerges from the ground at temperatures above boiling. These problems have been encountered IRL in North African aquifers as the desert farms of Egypt and other nations delve deeper to sustain their heavy water use.

If you're storing water for the dry season (implying that there's a wet season), reservoirs are a better bet. If you're irrigating land, like the Sahara, which hasn't seen regular rainfall for many thousands of years, the aquifer is your best bet (unless you want to raise the ire of your neighbours in wetter countries by re-routing all their rivers through your deserts) but you'll need some kind of filtration system in addition to the pumps and storage tanks, and it'll probably cost about as much as a city's water treatment plant.

Also, the presence of such an aquifer is dictated by historical climate and local geology; they may not be present in all regions.

Confirmed: the units are enroute via express aviation shipping. Instructions are provided for setting up.

OOC: I thought of that...I'll see what I can do in that area.

Can the "Calm Down" weather package be used to wear down a hurricane or other tropical cyclone while it is still at sea, and can it stop bizzards?

The "Calm Down" package has been proven to have effect against tropical storms, yet may not completely stop the storm while over the sea while they are picking up moisture.
However, it is worth a try, as the price is the same for all sizes of storms, from supercell to hurricane.

Against a blizzard, we do not reccomend as it may cause the blizzard to increase in strength by providing many more snow particles.

(Kerbump)