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La République de Indochine
The Republic of Indochina

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Capital & Largest City: Saigon*
Official Language: French**
Leader(s):

President - Dong Nguyen
Prime Minister - Hun Sen

Area: 750,000 square km
Population (Estimate): 107,868,000
Gross Domestic Product (PPP): US$ 313,070,000,000
GDP per capita (PPP): US$ 2,902
Demonym: Indochinese
Independance (from France): 1945
Timezone: UTC+7 (No DST)
Currency: Indochinese Yan (ICY) (¥), 1,000 ICY to 1 USD
Internet TLD: .ic


((OOC: * - RL Ho Chi Minh City; ** - Couldn't find a suitable translator for any of the native languages))

((OOC: Hello from across the border. I'm curious about your history, and the Frenchness of the nation. I thought I'd say a few things about mine before you write yours up.

Since WWII's basically the same, I have it that Thailand, now part of Pyeki, invaded Laos and over-ran it, then got bogged down fighting the French in what is now Vietnam, until Japan essentially forced France to give-up Indochina. After the war, liberation movements in Burma and Indonesia were united with those in Thailand who resented being dragged down with the Japanese defeat, creating the Pyekan-Kuogu (of Pyeki).

I wonder what happened to Indochina immediately at the end of the war. In reality, France tried to hold on, of course, and there was armed conflict. In ESR, Pyeki was essentially united as the Japanese began to withdraw. The Dutch didn't have any luck trying to return (we need to get Greal in on this, since the Netherlands, France, and Germany are united now, somehow), and we tried to prevent the creation of the Federated Straits Settlements (Questers as Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) and we would also have tried to prevent the creation of the Republic of Indochina. The Konfrontasi obviously failed, as both of your nations now exist, but agreeing exactly what happened may help us decide how our nations see each other today.

If you'd rather we set up an OOC thread to discuss all this, I'll delete this post and move it there, of course.))

((OOC: Please, if you can't tell, my factbook is underconstruction. Now either we have this OOC discussion clogging up this factbook or we have an ungly mark of a deleted post. Either you are an experienced member of the board and know that or you are new to the board (clearly not to the game however) and just made a mistake.

Please carry this discussion to the OOC thread, seeing as it is OOC.))

Government

The Republic of Indochina has a unicameral legislature called Le Congrés du Indochine. Someone who is a member of the congress is called Une Préfect and represents Une Départment whose capital is Une Préfecture, hence the name Préfect. There are 99 Départments and hence 99 Préfectures & 99 Préfects which means that there is no chance of a tie in Le Congrés du Indochine. The Congrés has elections ATLEAST every 5 years although they may be sooner with a minimum 500 days between the last election and elections being called.

There are two main executive officials, Le Président du Indochine & Le Premier Ministre Indochinoise, referred to as Le Président & Le PM respectively when the context is clear. All other executive officials are appointed by the PM and are referred to as ministres, and the PM and ministres together are all referred to as Le Conseil de Ministres.

The Président is elected independant of the Congrés and has the power to call elections for the Congrés whenever he or she sees fit with only one restriction; it cannot be within 500 days of the previous election, when the Président calls the election and it must recieve approval by atleast 1/3 of the Congrés. This is to prevent abuse by calling elections every 500 days for the duration of the Président's term. The Président's term is 5 years with elections every fifth 2nd of February.

The Président's other functions include representing the Republic, Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, the power to véto legislation which has not met an approval of 3/4 of Le Congrés, promulgation of law, the pardoning (but not amnesty) of criminal acts, the signing of treaties, he or she may offer up a treaty for referendum and must respect the results if a majourity of the Congrés and the PM approve and he or she appoints ambassadors to foriegn nations.

The PM is elected by the Congrés and can be dismissed by a vote of no confidence which requires 2/3 in favour by the Congrés or a simple majourity if the Président also approves. The PM appoints Le Conseil de Ministres and the PM submits the budget for approval. Whenever electios for the Congrés are called then the PM changes because the Congrés elects the PM for the duration of that Congrés or until dismissal by the Congrés.

Armed Forces

Le Forces Armees de Indochine is the official name of the Armed Forces of Indochina. They are divided into Le Armée de Terre de Indochine, Le Armée de l'Air de Indochine, Le Marine de Indochine & Le Gedarmerie de Indochine. The Armée de Terre is the land component, the Marine is the navy and naval infantry component, the Armée de l'Air is the air component and the Gendarmerie is the paramilitary component.

Armée de Terre:

Total Manpower: 131,400

Total Tanks: 2,000 T-55
Total APCs: 1,700 BTR-60
Total Self-Propelled Artillery: 7,000 2S3
Total Man-Propelled Artillery: 5,000 SPG-9

Standard Equipment:

1 TT-33 Pistol
1 AK-47 or 1 SVD or 1 PPS-43

Gendarmerie:

Total Manpower: 5,247,000

Standard Equipment:

1 AK-47 rifle
1 TT-33 pistol

Armée de l'Air:

Mig-21's: 150
Ka-27's: 75
Su-33's: 75

Total Manpower: 7,500

Marine:

3 Kinh-class aircraft carriers (RL Kuznetsov-class)
-NMI Kinh
-NMI Khmer
-NMI Lao

6 Saigon-class frigates (RL Petya-class)
-NMI Saigon
-NMI Da Nang
-NMI Phnom Penh
-NMI Kapong Saom
-NMI Vientiane
-NMI Hai Phong

25 Ho Chi Minh-class corvettes (RL Tarantul-class)
-NMI Ho Chi Minh
-NMI Thang Duc Ton
-NMI Dong Van Pham
-NMI Tho Hu Nguyen
-NMI Hung Pham
-NMI Chinh Truong
-NMI Kiet Van Vo
-NMI Cong Chi Vo
-NMI Khai Van Phan
-NMI Anh Duc Le
-NMI Dung Tan Nguyen
-NMI Luong Duc Tran
-NMI Hun Sen
-NMI Dong Nguyen
-NMI Sihanouk Norodom
-NMI Suramarit Norodom
-NMI Sihamoni Norodom
-NMI Bahvavarman
-NMI Mahendravarman
-NMI Isanavarman
-NMI Jayavarman
-NMI Sambhuvarman
-NMI Mahipativarman
-NMI Yasovarman
-NMI Suryavarman

These total to 3 CVBG's composed of 1 Kinh-class, 2 Saigon-class and 6 Tarantul class ships.
7 Tarantul-class corvettes are used for coastal defense.

Total Manpower: 18,870

Geography

Location: South-east Asia between the Grand Mongolian Empire, the Pyeki Empire, the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea

Maritime Claims:

Territorial Sea - 12 nm
Contiguous Zone - 24 nm
Exclusive Economic Zone - 200 nm
Continental Shelf - 200 nm


Climate: Tropical Monsoon; rainy season(May to November) and dry season (December to April); In the northwest the rainy season runs May to September and the dry season runs October to April.

Borders (km):

Total - 4,496

Grand Mongolian Empire - 1,704
Pyeki - 2,792



Coastline(Mainland only; km): 3,887

Elevation extremes:

Highest Point - Fan Si Pan (3,144 m)
Lowest Point - South China Sea/Gulf of Thailand (0 m)


Natural Resources: oil and gas (oofshore and not), timber, gemstones, some iron ore, manganese, phosphates, hydropower, gypsum, tin, gold, coal, bauxite, chromate, forests,

Natural Hazards: monsoonal rains in the southwest run June to November, floods, occasional western droughts, heavy floods in the east along with typhoons from May to January in the East.

Demographics

Age Structure:

0-14 - 30%
15-64 - 67%
65+ - 3%


Median Age: 23 years

Life Expectancy at birth: 67.89 years

Fertiliy Rate: 1.98 childern born/woman

People living with HIV/AIDS: 390,000

Majour Infectuous Diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, Hepatitis A, Typhoid fever, dengue fever, malaria, Japanese encephalitis

Ethnic groups: Kinh(Viet) 70.5%, Khmer 11.7%, Laos (lowland) 4.1%, Laos (upland) 1.3%, Pyeki 7.9%, Other 4.5%

Religion: Christian 71.5%, Buddhist 23.7%, Other 4.8%

Communications

Telephones - main lines: 10,922,867

Landline Telephone number composition: three digit area code ( first two digits 1,2 or 3; second and third digits range from 0 to 9; area codes 100, 200 and 300 not in use) five digit number ( each digit ranges from 2 to 9)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 34,978,200

Mobile Telephone number composition: 1st digit is 1 or 0. 8 digits ranging from 2 to 9.

Radio Stations: 74 AM stations; 28 FM stations; 31 shortwave

Television Stations: 93; includes 33 regional channels which use the same band of spectrum

Internet users: 17,939,000

Transportation

Airports: 52

Heliports: 2

Railways: 3,202 km; 1 m gauge

Roadways: 291,646 km; only 49,067 km is paved

Waterways: 24,702 km

Majour Ports: Phnom Penh, Kampong Saom, Da Nang, Hai Phong, Saigon

Economy

Labour Force: 54.83 million

Unemployment rate: 4.7%

Population below poverty line: 18.3%

Inflation (consumer prices): 7.3%

Agriculture - products (not in any specific order): rice, rubber, corn, tapioca, cashews, corn, vegetables, sweet potato, coffee, sugarcane, tobbaco, cotton, tea, peanuts, water buffalo, pigs, cattle, poultry, pepper, soybeans, bananas, fish, seafood

Industries (not in any specific order): tourism, garments, rice milling, fishing, wood and wood products, rubber, cement, gem, copper, tin, gold and gypsum mining, textiles, timber, electric power, agricultural and food processing, construction, shoes, machine-building, coal, steel, chemical fertilizer, glass, tires, oil, paper

Electricity production: 60,859,000,000 kWh
Electricity consumption: 52,749,600,000 kWh
Electricity exports: 8,109,400,000 kWh
Electricity imports: 0 kWh

Oil production: 319,500 bbl/day
Oil consumption: 277,750 bbl/day
Oil exports: 41,750 bbl/day
Oil imports: 0 bbl/day
Oil proven reserves: 6 million bbl

Natural gas production: 6.86 cu m
Natural gas consumption: 6.86 cu m
Natural gas exports: 0 cu m
Natural gas imports: 0 cu m
Natural gas proven reserves: 184.7 billion cu m

Current account balance: -$1.964 billion

Exports: $53.121 billion
Exports commodities: clothing, timber, rubber, rice, fish, tobacco, footwear, tin, copper, gold, electricity, coffee, wood products, crude oil, marine products
Exports partners: Amazonian America, Mongolia Empire, German Federal Dominion, United Kingdom, Kansiovian Federation, Pan-Oceanic Alliance, Federal Strait Settlements

Imports: $67.25 billion
Imports commodities: petroleum products, cigarrettes, machinery equipment, vehicles, pharmaceutical products, fertilizer, steel products, raw cotton, grain, cement
Imports partners: Mongolian Empire, Kansovian Federation, Fedral Strait Settlements

Foreign Exchange Reserves and Gold: $19.3 billion
Foreign Debt: $31.57 billion

Mussleburghian Message

We The People's Republic of Mussleburgh would like to inquire as to wether your great nation would like to buy arms? Currently we have for sale:
Main Battle Tanks:
170 M60T
650 M60A3 TTS
105 M60A1 RISE Passive
750 M 60A3
600 M 60A1
100 M 48T5
1200 M 48A5
Armored Personnel Carriers:
100+ Otokar Yavuz (8x8)
240+ BTR-80 (8x8)
102+ FNSS Pars (8x8)
Aircraft:
80 Northrop F-5
155 F-4 Phantom II
Not only this but we would love to hear of any trade deals or embassy exchange programs you may have.
Asli Aslan

Mussleburghian Message

We The People's Republic of Mussleburgh would like to inquire as to wether your great nation would like to buy arms? Currently we have for sale:
Main Battle Tanks:
170 M60T
650 M60A3 TTS
105 M60A1 RISE Passive
750 M 60A3
600 M 60A1
100 M 48T5
1200 M 48A5
Armored Personnel Carriers:
100+ Otokar Yavuz (8x8)
240+ BTR-80 (8x8)
102+ FNSS Pars (8x8)
Aircraft:
80 Northrop F-5
155 F-4 Phantom II
Not only this but we would love to hear of any trade deals or embassy exchange programs you may have.
Asli Aslan

Our military is well equipped. Merci.