California Republic wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 6:55 pm
Name of nation: California Republic
Link to factbook:
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Total troops: 80,500 (+62,000 Nouvelle-Caledonie Gaurd)
Total airforce: 422
Total tonnage (navy): 670,000
Unrest (out of 10): 5
Green Zone
Conscription:
None
Population:
46,863,000
Tech Level:
Developed
Coastal
Positive Traits:
National Defence Authorization Act, 1978 The current 1978 NDAA diverts resources from the Army towards Research and Devolpment, Airpower, and Seapower, in order to better meet the defence goals of the Republic. [-2,500 Soldiers, +211 aircraft, +150,000 tons.
This is building off of economic factors bellow to achieve these numbers]
Incredibly large defence budget The Republic has a very high defence expenditure as a percentage of its economic output, and it has a very large economic output as a raw figure. This is justified by the Republic considering itself first among equals in the defence of liberal democracy at a global scale, and never reduced defence spending as a result of the Pacific War. The Defence budget under the 1978 NDAA is disproportionately used for naval funding, aerospace funding, and r&d, with the Army seen as a secondary focus. [+63,000 soldiers, +211 aircraft, +425,000 tons]
Joint Base Pearl Harbor The Pearl Harbor naval facility posses a significant number of mothballed ships which can be restored to active service, of the Republics Fleet, it's largest class of surface combatant, the Yosemite, was originally launched in 1939 and served in the Pacific War, it was modernized in the 1960's and 70's to be re activated, this cost cutting exercises allowed a number of high tonnage vessels to be brought into service at a fraction of the cost of constructing a new vessel. [+45,000 tons, 2/3rd the cost of the Two re-activated ships in the fleet to represent cost savings of modernization of these ships over constructing new warships, in the future warships that historically where mothballed after WW2 at Pearl harbor, such as the Alaska class used above, can be reactivated at a 2/3rds tonnage discount, but must contain only minor modifications to the historical ship to retain this cost discount, the Republic Class in service was historically the USN Alaska Class that fought in WW2 and was retired at Pearl.]
Nouvelle-Caledonie Gaurd The Nouvelle-Caledonie Gaurd was established in 1886 to defend the interests of Nouvelle-Caledonie, an autonomous territory of California. The Gaurd is under the jurisdiction of the Nouvelle-Caledonie Government, with California providing material aid, logistical support, and air support for the Gaurd. The Guard is comprised of 62,000 personel)
Irreplaceable assets: The high technology nature of the Republican Force means that any losses are irreplaceable, complex supply chains and production methods means that lost assets can take a significant time, often beyond the duration of the scope of planned conflict, to replace. compounding pilot shortages and other issues mean that the Aerospace Force is most impacted. [Aircraft lost in combat do not regenerate during peacetime, any aircraft lost is a permanent reduction from my capabilities (aircraft limit) until an RP for their replacement is completed. Ships sunk have the same limitation, soldiers and army equipment is exempt.
Negative Traits:
Overstressed Shipyards the Shipyard capacity of the Republic is too heavily engaged in the maintence of the large and technically sophisticated existing fleet to also build new warships, it would be very difficult to replace ships as they age out of service with newer designs, or increase the size of the fleet, without significant expansions to the ship building capacity of the Republic. [The Navy cannot expand in size without significant, prolonged, expensive expansions to the production capacity of the Republic likely requiring territorial expansion, as dictated by the moderation staff]
1975 Space Exploration Act In 1975 a significant portion of R&D for the Aerospace Service was split into R&D for the peaceful exploration of Space, as a result, the devolpment and production of new combat aircraft has slowed due to a now shrinking budget. The effects of this legislation have compounded due to the high technology nature of the Republics air force, and the resulting pitfall in production led to the shuttering and consolidation of the defence aerospace industry. While this did not effect the current size of the Aerospace service, it will slow the production of aircraft significantly. [The total number of aircraft in the Republic cannot be increased without abandoning the Space Shuttle program and removing any existing shuttle prototypes from service.]
Pilot Shortage The Aerospace Service has more aircraft than pilots, and without significant reform to the education system, or reducing requirements for pilot certification, it's unlikely the situation will ever change. [significant reforms will be required to increase the number of pilots and end the pilot shortage, this shortage prevents the expansion of the number of active duty combat aircraft untill it is addressed to the current amount]
Lack of Silos Due to the 1975 space exploration act, the funding for the Army land based Nuclear deterrent was re-directed to devolpment of space launch vehicles, as a result, despite being a nuclear power and having an advanced aerospace sector, the Republic does not have the ability to produce land based ICBM's, nor would it have the ability to store land based ICBM's as the republic has no silos suitable for their storage or use. This limits the nuclear deterrence of the republic to the system devolped in 1960 under the Air/Sea Nuclear Strike Policy. As a result, the only nuclear delivery vehicles of the Republic are based in air and naval assets. [The Republic cannot use ICBM's without first constructing land based Silos, the Republic cannot produce ICBM's without cancelling the 1975 Space Exploration Act.]
Nike-Spartan Program: Funding for the radically expensive, ambitious, and technically sophisticated Nike-Spartan program required significant cuts to other areas of the defense budget, as a result all development of TBM, SLBM, IRBM, and all other Ballistic Missile developments was cancelled in 1962. While the Republic can produce the shorter range Aero-Ballistic Missiles and deck launched Short Ranged Ballistic Missiles for its surface ships and bomber force, production of a surface-surface ballistic missile would require production lines, industry, and expertise that was dismantled and no longer exists within the Republic. (A prolonged RP to restart the capacity to produce ballistic missiles, including restarting "from the ground up" in terms of technical research, would be required if California is ever to produce an ICBM, SLBM (Sub Launched), IRBM, or TBM type missile, as the Republic has not funded such programs for decades and the industry no longer exists, the two missiles in Service are older designs and do not fit this catagory.
Economical Traits:
Global Technology Manufacturing center The State of Alta California, which holds within it the San Fransisco Bay, and inside that the Silicon Valley, which itself contains a majority of the global design, engineering, and production, of electronics, computational equipment, aerospace technologies, and Nuclear research. The first experiment which successfully proved nuclear fusion occured at Stanford University in the Bay, and the research and high technology based economy present has provided the Republic with a significant base which can be mobilized to acheive national security ends, while attracting talent and further concentrating the comparative advantage of doing high technology research within the Republic.
Agricultural Giant A majority of Fruit, Nuts, and Wine on the north American continent is grown in Alta California. This includes an overwhelming majority of the planets supply of almonds, a significant share of wine products in the western hemisphere, and a dominate share of citrus products on the continent. The Republic of Hawaii also produces a significant amount of Coffee beans which cannot be produced in North America typically.
West Coast Imports A majority of the port capacity of the North American Continent is present in the Republic of California, and a majority of imports into North America from the Indo-Pacific region arrive in the two major port cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles, from where they can then be distributed via rail.
Ship Building The Republic of Hiwawii and the San Fransisco Bay both contain extremely large shipyards capable of outproducing most other ship biulding centers on the planet. During the Pacific War, which lasted 6 years, 45% of all the tonnage of global ship building on the planet was produced in the San Francisco Bay, with a total of 140 vessels, including 30 large cruisers and 18 aircraft carriers, was completed in that timeframe. Combining the output of San Francisco and Hiwawii represents nearly half of global ship building capacity.
Resources:
The Republic of California has no major resource deficiencies, possessing large stores of Uranium, Oil, Natural Gas, Gold, Platinum, Mercury, Lead, Iron, Coal, and essentially every other resource needed from a modern supply chain. The only significant resource California often lacks is fresh water during drought periods, which can last decades and be destructive to the economic output of the region.
Unrest Factors:
Racial Injustice: the year the Republic was born was the same year as the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which enabled removal of citizenship status from Californians of Chinese Decent, the 1852 Asiatic Exclusion Act expanded these policies to Korean and Japanese Californians. The last Chinese slave laborer was set free in 1862, but the Chinese and Asiatic Exclusion acts where not repealed untill 1937. While Citizenship was restored to Californians of Asian decent in the same year, significant racial inequality at both a legal and civil level exist within the Republic and have not been fully addressed. [+4 unrest]
Military spending The expansive military budget is generally popular, but still leads to protest and conflict with minority wings of both parties, notably the Republican isolationists and the Social Democrats of the RNC and DNC respectively. [+1 unrest, can be nullified by reducing military spending and loosing benefits from heightened spending trait]