Third Spanish States
24-04-2008, 08:05
A handful of Third Spanish States volunteers took their time to write a detailed informational document about the oppressive mass-murdering Stalinist state capitalist totalitarian pigs of Soviet Spain, regarding everything that comes out from its quasi-fascistic iron curtain. It was written in three languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English. For international convenience only the English version will be exhibited. We hope it shall enlighten the international community on this obscure tyranny which has brought misery to Spain for three decades.
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Soviet Spain Factbook
Briefing:
The dystopian Soviet Spain, officially called the "People's Republic of Spain", is the result of a "people's" revolution in mainland Spain during the second civil war, which also led to the formation of Third Spanish States by the anarchists and small businessmen who lacked the military power to overthrow the Communist Party. For its more than thirty decades of existence, its Stalinist government has mass murdered 60 millions of innocents through famine, forced labor in death camps, use of humans as test subjects and summary executions and have become effectively, and ironically, a new upper class over the former bourgeoisie. Economically, it's technically "developing", although in truth it's completely stagnated and on the verge of collapse as an increased part of its economy is sustained by State-controlled slave labor. Characterized as a desolate, sad landscape of ruined cities and decadent infrastructure filled with surveillance cameras, it is an Orwellian nightmare in its worst possible form. However, both the prosperous and free people of Third Spanish States and the oppressed people of Soviet Spain share a common ethnic and specially cultural identity which the government hasn't managed to erase. It's also the closest, currently only and most hated enemy of the Confederacy, yet it's neighbors are either sufficiently isolationist or with too many internal troubles to care about it.
Geography:
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Soviet Spain map
Territories
Soviet Spain encompass all the former territories of the former Spanish government, except for the Republic of Canary Islands which have become an independent micro-nation following the collapse of European economy during the Peak Oil crash.
Weather
The mainland Spain is characterized by a significant variation of climates. From continental climate in the inland areas which is characterized for the existence of periods of snow during winters and of moderate rainfall during summer to the balanced oceanic climate to the north coast and dry Mediterranean climate to the south.
Economy:
Briefing
Soviet Spain is officially a planned socialist economy, but in truth it is a State capitalist economy where the government is the master of everything, controlling not only the means of production, but attempting to also control the fate, actions and behavior of all human beings which are to them nothing besides "human resources", making of its inhabitants little more than slaves to the government. The heavily corrupt, bureaucratic nature of the way its economy is managed has reflected into its stagnation and into the common shortages of even the most basic needs for human survival, which are anything but seldom. Its primary economic activities are those of polluting low-technology industries which employ in most cases forced labor, and agriculture is barely enough to feed everyone.
General Economic Data
The "Communist" Party can be acclaimed for one thing: the economic decadence they brought to a nation which was before technically a developed country.
The tendency of Soviet Spain economy is a slow but steady implosion into eventually the most abject level of poverty. When previously, despite the crisis and civil war, the GDP per capita in Spain was of of $31,500, currently it has lowered to $8,500 and each year the gross domestic product is in relative terms regressing despite the forced population boom which serves to disguise this problem as well, for the GDP as an absolute value has currently decreased less than if the population was maintained stable, being at $637,500,000,000 as of now, which corresponds to a reduction to 48.66% of Spanish Gross Domestic Product in 2007, and that not counting the even more miserable GDP estimation based on purchasing power parity. There is no currency in Soviet Spain, as it was abolished by the totalitarian government.
There are basically four social classes: The Upper Party members, who are the equivalent of the upper class in capitalist economies, the Lower Party members, which are a bureaucratic middle class, the people who are basically below the line of poverty and the "unpersons", caught revolutionaries, freedom fighters, rebels among the occasional bystander at the wrong place and time, which would, given the opportunity, rather to decapitate their own heads than to continue living in their horrible conditions.
Agriculture, hunting and feedstock
Only the most basic foods like pure unrefined rice are given to the starving population. "All luxury" products like olive oil and meat are exclusivity of the Party. Unpersons usually are only given whatever nobody else wants: animal entrails and sometimes, as a brutal punishment for disobedience, even urine and feces for an entire week. Rumors of murdered victims being given as "food" to these individuals in a nightmarish real "Hell" also exist, although unconfirmed.
Electricity
As the population was forced to have more children than what the available infrastructure could support, today Soviet Spain is featured by common shortages in residential areas, while the government buildings and hidden manors of Party members are, expectingly, perfectly powered. Many towns don't even have electricity anymore. The decrepit and stagnated power grid is 70% based on fossil fuels, which is considered a major strategic weakness following the peak oil crisis, currently at bay by the discovery of new reserves, but those will eventually deplete as well or not be able to attend to the global demands. The other 30% are supplied almost exclusively by nuclear power plants with questionable safety rulings.
Mining and Ores Exports/Imports
Most mineral resources of Spain have been explored deeply. Quarrel is still a common activity, which is not used to justify exports. Most of its need of ores, particularly coal, are supplied by other Stalinist nations it maintains trade with.
Natural Gas and Petroleum
With its dependence in fossil fuels, several soviet providers were found to sustain its crippled economy and avoid it from suffering an near-instantaneous collapse, which is ought to happen eventually.
Exports/Imports in General
Soviet Spain is infamously know for exporting "unpersons" as slaves and for connections with organized crime in the activity human trafficking. For "human resources" are indeed the only "commodity" it can provide with ease to the rest of the world.
History:
The history of Soviet Spain is completely connected with the history of Third Spanish States. The same peak Oil major economic crisis, comparable in certain ways to the 1929 crisis which has served as one of the propellers for the spread of fascism in the last century, has brought turmoil into Europe, answered by the adoption of "emergency powers" by many of the existing "democratic" governments, which led to a severe state of civil war and chaos across the continent. Following an increasingly oppressive dictatorship in Spain and the blames on the collapse into neoliberalism and globalization, radical leftism has gained a new lifeblood across Europe, and yet again has engaged against an authoritarian and conservative right in Spain, into two separate factions: the anarchists and the Marxists. While under the aid of Cortéz some of the anarchists were planning the establishment of Third Spanish States, others have successfully managed to raid the Palacio de la Moncloa, official residence of the "president" Carlos Cavallo, while the Marxists have taken over the Congreso de los Diputados and the Senado de España, and the lives of the government puppets inside it. Unfortunately, the Marxists have took advantage of the effective murder of all major government authorities to establish their own government, the República Popular de España(People's Republic of Spain), with its official residence in the taken over Palacio de la Zarzuela, and have managed to take over the military and unharmed bureaucratic structure of the former government, expeditiously using it to persecute all those who opposed to their iron fist, among them, the anarchists who would later form the Confederacy of Third Spanish States, who have stood against them for four years, while having control of Huelva, Cádiz, Málaga and Seville, until finally having to retreat from their own home, Spain. Since then the government has turned Spain from a prosperous European nation to a living hell to all but those who are inside the Party, to the point that one of the ways of referring to it in Third Spanish States is by SpaSoc.
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/2184/theflagwavesyougg5.png
Soviet Spain Factbook
Briefing:
The dystopian Soviet Spain, officially called the "People's Republic of Spain", is the result of a "people's" revolution in mainland Spain during the second civil war, which also led to the formation of Third Spanish States by the anarchists and small businessmen who lacked the military power to overthrow the Communist Party. For its more than thirty decades of existence, its Stalinist government has mass murdered 60 millions of innocents through famine, forced labor in death camps, use of humans as test subjects and summary executions and have become effectively, and ironically, a new upper class over the former bourgeoisie. Economically, it's technically "developing", although in truth it's completely stagnated and on the verge of collapse as an increased part of its economy is sustained by State-controlled slave labor. Characterized as a desolate, sad landscape of ruined cities and decadent infrastructure filled with surveillance cameras, it is an Orwellian nightmare in its worst possible form. However, both the prosperous and free people of Third Spanish States and the oppressed people of Soviet Spain share a common ethnic and specially cultural identity which the government hasn't managed to erase. It's also the closest, currently only and most hated enemy of the Confederacy, yet it's neighbors are either sufficiently isolationist or with too many internal troubles to care about it.
Geography:
http://www.aboutromania.com/SpainMap.gif
Soviet Spain map
Territories
Soviet Spain encompass all the former territories of the former Spanish government, except for the Republic of Canary Islands which have become an independent micro-nation following the collapse of European economy during the Peak Oil crash.
Weather
The mainland Spain is characterized by a significant variation of climates. From continental climate in the inland areas which is characterized for the existence of periods of snow during winters and of moderate rainfall during summer to the balanced oceanic climate to the north coast and dry Mediterranean climate to the south.
Economy:
Briefing
Soviet Spain is officially a planned socialist economy, but in truth it is a State capitalist economy where the government is the master of everything, controlling not only the means of production, but attempting to also control the fate, actions and behavior of all human beings which are to them nothing besides "human resources", making of its inhabitants little more than slaves to the government. The heavily corrupt, bureaucratic nature of the way its economy is managed has reflected into its stagnation and into the common shortages of even the most basic needs for human survival, which are anything but seldom. Its primary economic activities are those of polluting low-technology industries which employ in most cases forced labor, and agriculture is barely enough to feed everyone.
General Economic Data
The "Communist" Party can be acclaimed for one thing: the economic decadence they brought to a nation which was before technically a developed country.
The tendency of Soviet Spain economy is a slow but steady implosion into eventually the most abject level of poverty. When previously, despite the crisis and civil war, the GDP per capita in Spain was of of $31,500, currently it has lowered to $8,500 and each year the gross domestic product is in relative terms regressing despite the forced population boom which serves to disguise this problem as well, for the GDP as an absolute value has currently decreased less than if the population was maintained stable, being at $637,500,000,000 as of now, which corresponds to a reduction to 48.66% of Spanish Gross Domestic Product in 2007, and that not counting the even more miserable GDP estimation based on purchasing power parity. There is no currency in Soviet Spain, as it was abolished by the totalitarian government.
There are basically four social classes: The Upper Party members, who are the equivalent of the upper class in capitalist economies, the Lower Party members, which are a bureaucratic middle class, the people who are basically below the line of poverty and the "unpersons", caught revolutionaries, freedom fighters, rebels among the occasional bystander at the wrong place and time, which would, given the opportunity, rather to decapitate their own heads than to continue living in their horrible conditions.
Agriculture, hunting and feedstock
Only the most basic foods like pure unrefined rice are given to the starving population. "All luxury" products like olive oil and meat are exclusivity of the Party. Unpersons usually are only given whatever nobody else wants: animal entrails and sometimes, as a brutal punishment for disobedience, even urine and feces for an entire week. Rumors of murdered victims being given as "food" to these individuals in a nightmarish real "Hell" also exist, although unconfirmed.
Electricity
As the population was forced to have more children than what the available infrastructure could support, today Soviet Spain is featured by common shortages in residential areas, while the government buildings and hidden manors of Party members are, expectingly, perfectly powered. Many towns don't even have electricity anymore. The decrepit and stagnated power grid is 70% based on fossil fuels, which is considered a major strategic weakness following the peak oil crisis, currently at bay by the discovery of new reserves, but those will eventually deplete as well or not be able to attend to the global demands. The other 30% are supplied almost exclusively by nuclear power plants with questionable safety rulings.
Mining and Ores Exports/Imports
Most mineral resources of Spain have been explored deeply. Quarrel is still a common activity, which is not used to justify exports. Most of its need of ores, particularly coal, are supplied by other Stalinist nations it maintains trade with.
Natural Gas and Petroleum
With its dependence in fossil fuels, several soviet providers were found to sustain its crippled economy and avoid it from suffering an near-instantaneous collapse, which is ought to happen eventually.
Exports/Imports in General
Soviet Spain is infamously know for exporting "unpersons" as slaves and for connections with organized crime in the activity human trafficking. For "human resources" are indeed the only "commodity" it can provide with ease to the rest of the world.
History:
The history of Soviet Spain is completely connected with the history of Third Spanish States. The same peak Oil major economic crisis, comparable in certain ways to the 1929 crisis which has served as one of the propellers for the spread of fascism in the last century, has brought turmoil into Europe, answered by the adoption of "emergency powers" by many of the existing "democratic" governments, which led to a severe state of civil war and chaos across the continent. Following an increasingly oppressive dictatorship in Spain and the blames on the collapse into neoliberalism and globalization, radical leftism has gained a new lifeblood across Europe, and yet again has engaged against an authoritarian and conservative right in Spain, into two separate factions: the anarchists and the Marxists. While under the aid of Cortéz some of the anarchists were planning the establishment of Third Spanish States, others have successfully managed to raid the Palacio de la Moncloa, official residence of the "president" Carlos Cavallo, while the Marxists have taken over the Congreso de los Diputados and the Senado de España, and the lives of the government puppets inside it. Unfortunately, the Marxists have took advantage of the effective murder of all major government authorities to establish their own government, the República Popular de España(People's Republic of Spain), with its official residence in the taken over Palacio de la Zarzuela, and have managed to take over the military and unharmed bureaucratic structure of the former government, expeditiously using it to persecute all those who opposed to their iron fist, among them, the anarchists who would later form the Confederacy of Third Spanish States, who have stood against them for four years, while having control of Huelva, Cádiz, Málaga and Seville, until finally having to retreat from their own home, Spain. Since then the government has turned Spain from a prosperous European nation to a living hell to all but those who are inside the Party, to the point that one of the ways of referring to it in Third Spanish States is by SpaSoc.