Week 1

Your group should complete this task in week 1. Fill in the green information. When complete, sign your name to what you wrote and change the text to black so that it is readable. For ease of communication between Brazilian, Ukrainian, and American students, please post here in English.

Seu grupo deve concluir esta tarefa na semana 1. Preencha as informações verdes. Quando terminar, assine seu nome de acordo com o que você escreveu e altere o texto para preto para que seja legível. Para facilitar a comunicação entre estudantes brasileiros, ucranianos e americanos, poste aqui em inglês.

Ваша група повинна виконати це завдання протягом тижня 1. Заповніть зелену інформацію. Після завершення підпишіть своє ім’я до того, що ви написали, і змініть текст на чорний, щоб він був читабельним. Для зручності спілкування між бразильськими, українськими та американськими студентами, розмістіть тут англійською мовою.

Below, you will be outlining your country policies on the select topics. Your policies will need to be consistent with your governance style and ideology. Keep in mind also the politics and priorities of your country's regions. Note, however, that anything you write here is for public viewing. If you feel that any of this information is strategic and will be important for negotiations, you may choose to withhold it or mislead in this section. If your team chooses to do so, please submit the full, truthful analysis via your private country folders on Google Drive.

Abaixo, você estará delineando as políticas do seu país sobre os tópicos selecionados. Suas políticas precisarão ser consistentes com seu estilo de governança e ideologia. Lembre-se também das políticas e prioridades das regiões de seu país. Observe, no entanto, que tudo o que você escrever aqui é para visualização pública. Se você acha que alguma dessas informações é estratégica e será importante para as negociações, você pode optar por retê-la ou induzir em erro nesta seção. Se sua equipe decidir fazer isso, envie a análise completa e verdadeira por meio das pastas particulares de seu país no Google Drive.

Нижче ви описуєте політику своєї країни щодо окремих тем. Ваша політика повинна відповідати вашому стилю управління та ідеології. Майте на увазі також політику та пріоритети регіонів вашої країни. Зауважте, що все, що ви тут пишете, призначено для загального перегляду. Якщо ви вважаєте, що будь -яка з цих відомостей є стратегічною і буде важливою для переговорів, ви можете відмовитися від неї або ввести в оману в цьому розділі. Якщо ваша команда вирішить це зробити, надішліть повний, правдивий аналіз через папки вашої приватної країни на Диску Google.

Week 2 - Resource Usage

Mirizal regions are very diverse, and they guarantee to the country a great number of food varieties and energy sources. Pascavel relies mostly on the oil chain of production, and its wealth funds our national capital, Marradon. About 90% of the oil production in the country is privately owned. In the coast near to Salino borders rely the port town of Harborland, the most important port of the country for international trading. There is also some food production in the region to guarantee the supplies to the capital.

In the Kalueté Reservation, the indigenous people collaborate with the central government in the production of food. The plantations and animal farms are controlled by state-owned companies whose heads are half indicated by the government and half by the local population. The three towns in the reservation, Kakaluê, Luete and Kalelé City, rely mostly on internal and/or international commerce.

The highlands of Marra provide the perfect conditions for the Hydra hydroelectric power plant, which provides energy to the most inhospitable areas of the country. Even though there had been some problems with terrorism in this region in the last two decades, our armed forces are equipped to guarantee the safety of the animal farms and plantations in the woodlands. The town of Permarre, whose main activity is the mining of natural resources, is highly armed to prevent any attacks from international funded terrorists.

The Mirizal government is looking forward to trading some of our energy surplus in exchange for food units, to guarantee the food security of our 32 million population.

Week 4 - Energy Policy

Mirizal relies mainly on the oil industry to generate energy. The power plants are spread over the country, generating electricity to supply most of the cities. Besides having an hydroelectric power plant, it is sub-used due to technical problems with energy transmission in the area. Mirizal is looking forward to reduce at least 25% of its 25,320 tons of CO2 emitted yearly, whether by adapting our power plants or by substituting the state-owned oil burning power plants with renewable energy power plants. Seeking to reduce our national carbon footprint, the Mirizal National Institute of Science is maintaining scientific research on creating a new technology to allow the power plants to reduce about 30% of their emissions without losses to energy production. This technology, once developed, can be sold for other interested countries.

Mirizal also looks forward to helping smaller countries to produce or import electricity, once it is vital for the nations to maintain their populations pleased and under control. We can offer to the interested countries oil units, whether it’s for electricity production or for fuel, and energy units generated by our power plants.

Mirizal does not exercise raw power over other countries. It’s external policy is guided by two principles: sovereignty and stability. Nonetheless, our Armed Forces won’t hesitate to show its power against anyone who tries to hurt one of these principles. In internal politics, the central council, chaired by Gustavo P.A., Gustavo P. and Igor C., holds most of the power. All decisions must pass through one of the councilmen. The national development is sustained mainly by the oil industry, which extracts brute oil and produces energy to supply the whole country. The main internal issue are the rebels, which still control some parts of the country and often try to overthrow the military government. Due to this constant threat, the Armed Forces receive a huge investment and are always prepared to repress rebellions and coups d’états.

Mirizal has healthy institutions on what concerns productivity, with huge oil production (most of all attached to private sectors) and regular food and materials production, which are getting better with international negotiations. Political institutions were shaken in the past, but nowadays their strength is maintained by our local leaders. Outhough central power relies on our three councilmen. Our biggest restraints are the rebels, who can impact our production and our political stability. Furthermore, our international diplomacy can be restricted by climate and political decisions.

In Mirizal, the access to information is strict. The central government took over the control of the national television and radio transmission, seeking to hinder communication between oppositors/rebels. The state-owned company Mirizal Communication operates the national telephone lines and works as a censorship agency, reviewing all material created to be vehiculated on television and radio. The internet access is provided by private companies. Due to the high cost of the service, it is only accessible to high-ranking military and its close families - and, because of that, it is not censored at all. Nonetheless, it is known the rebels have an alternative telephone line, whose central base location is still unknown to the Army. Wires have been installed in oppositors houses to keep a vigilance over this mean of communication.

Week 6 - Natural Hazards Policy

Mirizal faces three main hazards, listed here by decreasing risk: earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides (during the rainy season). The earthquakes happen all over the country and generally have magnitude 4, with few magnitude 5 happening within a 20 years gap. These magnitudes usually cause damages to national infrastructure, damaging buildings in urban areas and being a potential risk for oil fields machinery and to the power plants. The volcano, located in the island of Luete, has been dormant for over a century, but can erupt again at any time, causing troubles to this city. The landslides occur on the hilly terrain near to the borders with Dayoca and Salino, where there are no major cities. That means they cause little risk to the population, only being a potential threat to the peach orchards.

Most of these hazards can be mitigated through prevention (instructing the population how to safely protect from earthquakes and creating a plan to evacuate Luete) and reduction of damages (preparing buildings to resist earthquakes). Once the landslides usually only damage the peach orchards, Mirizal uses a policy of acceptance, with few contention works being made to prevent it - the government won’t invest money on these constructions, considering most of the hills are under the domain of rebels at Marra.

Considering the authoritarianism from the central government, some of these policies can be easily implemented by the use of force. The evacuation training happens every two years, and the population from Luete is forced to collaborate with the Armed Forces. The reduction of damages is a responsibility of the private construction industry, and has little attention/control from the government. The contention also lies in the hands of rural producers, having no participation from the government.

A magnitude 5 or above earthquake can cause serious damage to Mirizal. Being unexpected and with little control of buildings by the government, there is no certainty the cities can resist this hazard. It could cause lots of deaths, serious damages to infrastructure and even an environmental disaster if the oil from exploration fields or power plants leak to the soil or sea. A potential volcano eruption also can be fatal, once the population can easily not follow the instructions to evacuate the island (because they didn’t learn anything in the training for being forced to participate or because of the panic).

Another hazard the country faces is the risk of disruption in the Hydra hydroelectric power plant. Once it is receiving no investment from the central government or from private sector, its security status is unknown. If the disruption comes to occur, it could flood the cities in Marra lands. There is no plan by the government to mitigate this hazard, or to minimize its effects.