Aequatio
06-06-2008, 20:41
Ebon Tor, Magna Casa, Aequatius Prime
President Alexis Castle sat down to breakfast within the massive tower's executive dining room with her usual collection of manila folders and clustered reports from a myriad of government departments. One of the servants poured her coffee into one of the cups as she sat down to read through the first report, marked urgent, regarding the quarterly reports from the nation's largest state-owned corporations. The results were as depressing as they were predicted, all poor, as the production had decreased on most primary and secondary industries despite the increased activity abroad along with the once-powerful defence industry, which had been handing out more production licenses to customers than actual contracts. The nation's economy, long-controlled through the nationalization of every company by the federal government, was starting to falter under its immense weight, the bureaucracy of the Administratum, although relatively feasible compared to other control economic plans of the world's communist nations, was having more trouble sustaining itself in recent years. Expansion was to blame, former President Reid's expansion around the world and the settlement and development of numerous colonies throughout the world was never accounted for when Premier Bomfy first laid out the tenants of Aequatio's own brand of National Socialism, which was meant to sustain the nation itself as it was in Gholgoth. The rampant growth in Haven and elsewhere saw that resources that were normally carefully regulated and rationed for the Citizenry within the Republic fall short of numbers across the board, had it not been for carefully-planned stockpiling, the situation could have become critical a lot sooner. Although now the problem lay in her lap as crumbs from her breakfast's toast as she struggled to form a viable solution, rumours of shortages had begun as quotas failed to be reached, especially overseas and growing dissent had occurred in many overseas territories, Aequatius Decca and Volstad to name two prominent issues as the governors of each possession had already converted from Aequatian national socialism to a more liberally-minded system which included free trade with a few Havenic partners and introduction of privatized companies and property ownership as the local governments issued title deeds to individual citizens for the first time in the Republic's history.
Time would go on and the nation began to experience the first of its troubles as the shortages of resources began to take its toll on everyday life as rations were reduced, the people grumbled and the protests started. Calls came out from across the nation's continents for change, the Centralist Party founded to sustain the nation was losing the public confidence as walk-outs occurred in a number of critical professions, including agriculture and primary resources like petroleum and mining, in cooperation with students and academics alike from universities and utility colleges throughout the country. It would take three days of continued protests, rallies, and in some cases violent clashes with police and rioting, before an emergency session was called before the National Senate by President Castle to explain and resolve the situation. The session was marked with a speech by the president and a presentation of what the nation faced, short of change, the Motherland would face complete economic collapse within the fiscal year. It was then that a group, dubbed by the Aequatian media as the "Knights of Kingston" for their namesake school, presented their solution to repair the damaged nation and bring it back to the international scene. A lobbyist group named "Group for the Support of Individual Liberty in Aequatio" had presented their own solutions before the National Senate and the President's Office a week earlier before doing so again on televisor screens across the nation and broadcast overseas to Haven and elsewhere via satellites. Many of the group were native Deccans who had gone to school in Praetonia, at the famous Kingston Royal College of Economics where they had discussed and studied amongst their cohort peers from the nations of the likes of Questers, Willink and Praetonia itself, learning the strengths and advantages of capitalism and developing their own theories on its application to the unfortunately wavering system of Aequatian National Socialism. Months prior, the group had initiated their methods and theories once they had returned to their homes on Aequatius Decca and Volstad, which in turn started the downfall of the pure ANS system in place as its weakness lay in the maintenance of international power projection.
The classical liberal ideas imported from the educations obtained in Praetonia, the groups set to work on changing the massive bureaucracy that was the Administratum into a more manageable civil service while other sectors under government control were handed off to individuals in one of the largest privatization efforts the world would ever see in modern history. Under the Centralist Party's system of National Socialism, citizens would be given "housing assignments" which now became title deeds as for the first time since the nation's founding, property ownership had parted from the hands of the federal government. The massive, nationalized corporations that were in charge of the nation's most important industries were handed off to the capable hands of the executive officers and boards of directors as contracts were changed and ownership was transferred from the Department of Interior to private citizens, the media joked as ceremonies were held in which company presidents and CEOs would symbolically receive their "pink slip" from the Secretary of Interior only to immediately sign the new contract of ownership. The most momentous occasion happened when the Aequatian Republic Stock Exchange opened to world markets, with President Castle in attendance, allowing both Aequatian and foreign companies to purchase shares of Aequatian companies and distributing ownership to any persons that were willing to purchase. The former income taxes were effectively abolished as Aequatians now had markes of their own to spend on whatever they desired, instead of the mostly-strict outlines provided in the former Incentives and Cost of Living Allowance programs, many chose to begin investing capital, buying collections of stocks and saving their money just because they were now allowed to do so, despite the government's maintenance of several social systems, including welfare and pensions. It would be these changes, along with many others throughout the nation, that would see it move away from the risk of sudden and immediate economic collapse to a relatively stable, partially free market society now growing as it began its new life. Aequatians were now truly free people amongst the world as President Castle presented the Republic to the world.
President Alexis Castle sat down to breakfast within the massive tower's executive dining room with her usual collection of manila folders and clustered reports from a myriad of government departments. One of the servants poured her coffee into one of the cups as she sat down to read through the first report, marked urgent, regarding the quarterly reports from the nation's largest state-owned corporations. The results were as depressing as they were predicted, all poor, as the production had decreased on most primary and secondary industries despite the increased activity abroad along with the once-powerful defence industry, which had been handing out more production licenses to customers than actual contracts. The nation's economy, long-controlled through the nationalization of every company by the federal government, was starting to falter under its immense weight, the bureaucracy of the Administratum, although relatively feasible compared to other control economic plans of the world's communist nations, was having more trouble sustaining itself in recent years. Expansion was to blame, former President Reid's expansion around the world and the settlement and development of numerous colonies throughout the world was never accounted for when Premier Bomfy first laid out the tenants of Aequatio's own brand of National Socialism, which was meant to sustain the nation itself as it was in Gholgoth. The rampant growth in Haven and elsewhere saw that resources that were normally carefully regulated and rationed for the Citizenry within the Republic fall short of numbers across the board, had it not been for carefully-planned stockpiling, the situation could have become critical a lot sooner. Although now the problem lay in her lap as crumbs from her breakfast's toast as she struggled to form a viable solution, rumours of shortages had begun as quotas failed to be reached, especially overseas and growing dissent had occurred in many overseas territories, Aequatius Decca and Volstad to name two prominent issues as the governors of each possession had already converted from Aequatian national socialism to a more liberally-minded system which included free trade with a few Havenic partners and introduction of privatized companies and property ownership as the local governments issued title deeds to individual citizens for the first time in the Republic's history.
Time would go on and the nation began to experience the first of its troubles as the shortages of resources began to take its toll on everyday life as rations were reduced, the people grumbled and the protests started. Calls came out from across the nation's continents for change, the Centralist Party founded to sustain the nation was losing the public confidence as walk-outs occurred in a number of critical professions, including agriculture and primary resources like petroleum and mining, in cooperation with students and academics alike from universities and utility colleges throughout the country. It would take three days of continued protests, rallies, and in some cases violent clashes with police and rioting, before an emergency session was called before the National Senate by President Castle to explain and resolve the situation. The session was marked with a speech by the president and a presentation of what the nation faced, short of change, the Motherland would face complete economic collapse within the fiscal year. It was then that a group, dubbed by the Aequatian media as the "Knights of Kingston" for their namesake school, presented their solution to repair the damaged nation and bring it back to the international scene. A lobbyist group named "Group for the Support of Individual Liberty in Aequatio" had presented their own solutions before the National Senate and the President's Office a week earlier before doing so again on televisor screens across the nation and broadcast overseas to Haven and elsewhere via satellites. Many of the group were native Deccans who had gone to school in Praetonia, at the famous Kingston Royal College of Economics where they had discussed and studied amongst their cohort peers from the nations of the likes of Questers, Willink and Praetonia itself, learning the strengths and advantages of capitalism and developing their own theories on its application to the unfortunately wavering system of Aequatian National Socialism. Months prior, the group had initiated their methods and theories once they had returned to their homes on Aequatius Decca and Volstad, which in turn started the downfall of the pure ANS system in place as its weakness lay in the maintenance of international power projection.
The classical liberal ideas imported from the educations obtained in Praetonia, the groups set to work on changing the massive bureaucracy that was the Administratum into a more manageable civil service while other sectors under government control were handed off to individuals in one of the largest privatization efforts the world would ever see in modern history. Under the Centralist Party's system of National Socialism, citizens would be given "housing assignments" which now became title deeds as for the first time since the nation's founding, property ownership had parted from the hands of the federal government. The massive, nationalized corporations that were in charge of the nation's most important industries were handed off to the capable hands of the executive officers and boards of directors as contracts were changed and ownership was transferred from the Department of Interior to private citizens, the media joked as ceremonies were held in which company presidents and CEOs would symbolically receive their "pink slip" from the Secretary of Interior only to immediately sign the new contract of ownership. The most momentous occasion happened when the Aequatian Republic Stock Exchange opened to world markets, with President Castle in attendance, allowing both Aequatian and foreign companies to purchase shares of Aequatian companies and distributing ownership to any persons that were willing to purchase. The former income taxes were effectively abolished as Aequatians now had markes of their own to spend on whatever they desired, instead of the mostly-strict outlines provided in the former Incentives and Cost of Living Allowance programs, many chose to begin investing capital, buying collections of stocks and saving their money just because they were now allowed to do so, despite the government's maintenance of several social systems, including welfare and pensions. It would be these changes, along with many others throughout the nation, that would see it move away from the risk of sudden and immediate economic collapse to a relatively stable, partially free market society now growing as it began its new life. Aequatians were now truly free people amongst the world as President Castle presented the Republic to the world.