Questers
20-05-2008, 18:16
Questarian Economics
Editor: Jonathon Rutland
Normally, Shipyard No.348, Portsmouth, Questers, is one of the busiest places on earth, producing warships below 65,000 tonnes for both the Royal Navy and foreign navies. However, managed by the government owned monopoly Beaufort Naval Industries, the last Government owned company in metropolitan Questers, it lies un-used and silent, just ike the others in its row. No ships are being produced here today, although around the country dockyards are working, producing destroyers and cruisers and submarines for the Navy. In previous years, Beaufort Naval Industries revitalised the Questarian arms industry. Before its creation, multiple companies sold multiple designs. It was rather a mess. B.N.I. has seen incredible success, but this success now appears to be lulling, after their submissions to two international contracts were failures - an Amastoli riverine contract, and a destroyer competition for the Tallenpoint Navy, where B.N.I.'s premier Parish Class nuclear destroyer design was shot down by the Praetonian Cavalier Class.
The Government has previously told B.N.I. to get its act together as exports lulled - in comparison to the A.D.E.N., the highly successful air exporter - but B.N.I. has shot back claiming that the huge cut in subsidies by the Russell Government has forced them to make a small retreat in the international market. B.N.I. argues that their ships are still considered the best in world by many navies. They are just facing hard export times with a rising Sterling and a lack of subsidies. The Government, however, is not convinced. It looks as if B.N.I. will be privatised and broken up, although it won't be allowed to be sold overseas - no, arms production is too important and too competitive a Questarian industry to be given to foreigners, according to even the strictest of free trade economists in Liberal Prime Minister Benjamin Russell's cabinet. What then, will replace B.N.I.? Perhaps an A.D.E.N. copy, a privately run export firm that markets and sells designs from a multitude of companies. No one is entirely sure yet, but it does appear firm that B.N.I. will be no more in not so long a time.
Editor: Jonathon Rutland
Normally, Shipyard No.348, Portsmouth, Questers, is one of the busiest places on earth, producing warships below 65,000 tonnes for both the Royal Navy and foreign navies. However, managed by the government owned monopoly Beaufort Naval Industries, the last Government owned company in metropolitan Questers, it lies un-used and silent, just ike the others in its row. No ships are being produced here today, although around the country dockyards are working, producing destroyers and cruisers and submarines for the Navy. In previous years, Beaufort Naval Industries revitalised the Questarian arms industry. Before its creation, multiple companies sold multiple designs. It was rather a mess. B.N.I. has seen incredible success, but this success now appears to be lulling, after their submissions to two international contracts were failures - an Amastoli riverine contract, and a destroyer competition for the Tallenpoint Navy, where B.N.I.'s premier Parish Class nuclear destroyer design was shot down by the Praetonian Cavalier Class.
The Government has previously told B.N.I. to get its act together as exports lulled - in comparison to the A.D.E.N., the highly successful air exporter - but B.N.I. has shot back claiming that the huge cut in subsidies by the Russell Government has forced them to make a small retreat in the international market. B.N.I. argues that their ships are still considered the best in world by many navies. They are just facing hard export times with a rising Sterling and a lack of subsidies. The Government, however, is not convinced. It looks as if B.N.I. will be privatised and broken up, although it won't be allowed to be sold overseas - no, arms production is too important and too competitive a Questarian industry to be given to foreigners, according to even the strictest of free trade economists in Liberal Prime Minister Benjamin Russell's cabinet. What then, will replace B.N.I.? Perhaps an A.D.E.N. copy, a privately run export firm that markets and sells designs from a multitude of companies. No one is entirely sure yet, but it does appear firm that B.N.I. will be no more in not so long a time.