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

1. What resources do you have?

The nation of Segonia has a great abundance of fish and wood products. In addition, it has copper, wool, wine production and uses partly renewable energies, such as wind and photovoltaic, and partly natural gas.

2. What resources do you want to have and why?

Our nation seeks products to supply the living needs of our population such as fruits, vegetables, terrestrial meats, oils and grains, but also materials such as iron, cotton, salt, stone and natural gas.

3. Where can you get these resources (can you find or develop these resources internally or will you need to trade for them)?

As a priority, we seek to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. For this, we seek to develop new plants for renewable energy. In addition, we also seek to develop the production of food and natural products in the Mid-East and Northern part of the country such as vegetables, fruits, cotton, terrestrial meat and grains (for oils and fuels). We seek to obtain other resources such as iron, stone, salt and natural gas through exchanges.

4. How do your institutions, governance style, and internal country politics help or hinder your ability to find, distribute, and use resources?

Because our governance is horizontal, the entire population understands the importance of decisions taken for the common good. However, by not imposing or forcing the decisions taken, we depend on the availability and willingness of our population to work for the good of the country. In this way, incentives will be implemented for people to follow such decisions, which will not be a major obstacle, not even for people who would move from their activity as the rest of the population who would contribute to the incentive, due to everyone's awareness of the importance in meeting these demands.

Week 4 - Energy Policy

1. Where does your energy come from and where does it go?

All of our energy production comes from the Ibagon Peninsula, which consumes about 75% of the total, with the remainder going to Fish Neck province. Unfortunately, we are still in an energy deficit, so there is energy rationing in this province between 12:00 a.m. and 06:00 a.m.

Regarding the way of obtaining it, we have 2 renewable energy plants, 1 is photovoltaic solar-based (25% of the total produced) and the other one is wind-based (25% of the total produced). Finally, we also have 1 non-renewable energy plant through the burning of natural gas (50% of the total produced).

2. How would you like to change your energy usage?

This week, we are working on diplomatic agreements with countries on the continent to reduce our carbon emissions, while increasing our energy potential as we are in deficit.

3. Do you have raw power, or is raw power exercised by other entities in your country?

The power is decentralized in regional assemblies and all decisions need to be approved by them and then by the Council.

4. What is the health of your institutions (research, spiritual, legislature, judiciary)? What constraints do they impose on your decision-making? Or do you constrain the institutions?

In order to respect democracy and individual freedoms, all institutions in Segonia are healthy and enjoy freedom and respect to act as they wish.

In the case of legal, legislative and governmental institutions, such as regional assemblies and the Council, these have enough authority to restrict any proposal or decision taken by other institutions that threatens Segonia's well-being. Other civil institutions like spiritual, cientific and jornalistic related have only consultative power, not having enough power to restrict an decision taken in regional assemblies or council, but with power enough to spread their ideas.

5. What is the health of the information flow in your country (journalism, education, arts, media)? Are they healthy enough to keep leaders, decision-makers, and citizens informed? Or are there weaknesses and biases that create misinformation or disinformation?

The information flow is healthy as it is one of the central pillars of Segonian democracy and its functioning. So, maintaining a healthy information flow is a priority for the entire country.

Thus, all citizen enjoy freedom of speech and information related institutions such as media, journalism, education and arts are encouraged in order to keep the people informed and critical so they can express their opinions and taken decisions in region assemblies with greater assertiveness and awareness.

In this way, the only weaknesses of the information flow in Segonia are those inherently related to general interpersonal communication difficulties.

Week 6 - Natural Hazards Policy

1. What hazards does your country face? Hazards can be geologic, atmospheric, hydrospheric, or biologic.

Segonia is located at the south eastern-most tip of Toltecan, bordering Salino, Dayoca and the Southern Ocean. Because of its privileged geographic position, Segonia faces less natural hazards than other countries in Toltecan. Basically, the three mainly types of natural hazards that Segonia faces are geologic, atmospheric and hydrospheric hazads:

• Ibagon Peninsula: The Ibagon Peninsula, where is located the country capital Mendelan, is the region that faces the most part of the natural hazards that affects Segonia. It's common, there, extratropical extreme rainfall episodes with lots of lightnings that cause floods, fires and earth slides. In the long term, it's a region that can be impacted by the sea level rise.

• Fish Neck: The Fish Neck region, located in end of the Toltekanian Divide, faces heavy blizzard episodes that cause earth slides. Besides that, sometimes, faces small intensity earthquakes. In the long term, it's a region that can be impacted by salinization and desertification.

• Patapi Research Station: The Patapi Research Station, located in the remote stretches of the Southern Ocean, faces extratropical extreme rainfall episodes and, eventually, extratropical cyclones. In the long term, as well as the Ibagon Peninsula, it's a region that can be impacted by the sea level rise.

2. Prioritize your risks. Which are most important to mitigate?

The Segonia's National Natural Hazards Policy, considering the natural hazards intensity and recurrence, prioritizes the risks in the following way:

(1) HIGH RISK (HR): Extreme rainfall episodes (flood, fire, earth slides) and sea level rise

(2) MEDIUM RISK (MR): Earthquakes, salinization and desertification

(3) LOW RISK (LR): Cyclones

3. What mitigation strategies (avoidance, reduction, transfer, acceptance) would you use to cope with these hazards? You can vary your response, depending on the hazard and its prioritization.

First of all, the main natural disasters mitigation strategy of Segonia is the development of a National Natural Hazards Policy, which contains detailed and planned guidelines for the prevention of disasters in segonose territory. Each type of natural hazard that affect Segonia, considering their intensity and recurrence, is linked to an extensive list of mitigation stategies:

(1) [HR] MITIGATION STRATEGIES: With regard to the extratropical extreme rainfall events, Segonia adopts two different mitigation strategies: prevention and adaptation. First of all, Segonia invests in a climate monitoring system that alerts segonese people about the possibility of extreme rainfall events. By the other hand, Segonia governmet has an emergency fund for climate affairs that is used, mainly in Ibagon Peninsula and Patapi Research Station, for the reconstruction and adaptation of urban and rural infrastructure to extreme rainfall events. Besides that, the regional governments maintain Territorial Planning Agencies that identify risk areas and propose the democratic relocation of people living in these areas. With regard to the sea levels rise, Segonia adopts one mitigation strategy: prevention. Segonia closed its non-renewable power plants and, currently, doesn't emit CO2 to the atmosphere.

(2) [MR] MITIGATION STRATEGIES: With regard to the earthquakes that affect the Fish Neck region, Segonia also adopts two different mitigation strategies: prevention and adaptation. In addition to the climate monitoring system, Segonia is developing a geological monitoring system that alerts segonese people in case of earthquakes and searching for countries that have know-how in this area and want to collaborate with Segonia. By the other hand, Segonia government uses 20% of the emergency fund for climate affairs to reconstruct and adapt the urban and rural infrastructure to small intensity earthquakes. With regard to the salinization and desertification, Segonia is developing strategies to reduce the CO2 emission to the atmosphere. Segonia closed its non-renewable power plants and, currently, doesn't emit CO2 to the atmosphere, but also encourages other countries to reduce the CO2 emission too.

(3) [LR] MITIGATION STRATEGIES: With regard to the extratropical cyclones that, eventually, affect the Patapi Research Station, Segonia adopts one mainly strategy: adaptation. Cyclones are rare and the Patapi Research Station is unpopulated, so the Segonia government is only concerned with using constructive technologies to build infrastructures capable of resisting cyclones.

4. Are you institutions and channels of communication healthy enough to implement your desired mitigation strategies?

In general, the Segonia's institutions and channels of communication are healthy enough to implement its National Natural Hazards Policy (NNHP). When an urgent issue arises for the segonese people, the Segonia's government and institutional structure is pressured and triggered by the people to debate and deliberate about the problem. In case of natural hazards and disasters, it's installed immediately a Natural Hazard Council (NHC) with government, business and civil society representatives that evaluate the problem and produce an intervention report. The process is the most democratic, transparent and horizontal as possible, listening the opinions, interests and situations from everyone and sharing the discussions and decisions made with everyone. Although it's a slow process due to the very nature of Democracy, but the decisions taken are consensual and better planned.

5. What societal hazards do you face either as a result of a disaster or your response to a disaster? Will your people respond constructively or destructively? Be honest, and don't use wishful thinking (for an example, compare our pandemic plans to what actually transpired when the COVID-19 pandemic happened).

Segonia is a historic Democracy. Since the beginning of its history, the decision-making process has been done in a democratic, horizontal and planned way, including the opinion and participation of all citizens. In case of natural hazards and disasters, Segonia society would respond constructively, because, when a problem affects the segonese people, the entire governmental and institutional structure is pressured and triggered by the people to deliberate about the problem. However, like all Democracy, the local, regional and national councils must listen and take all the opinions into account, including the differences and contrary positions to the National Natural Hazards Policy (NNHP). Because of that, the segonese decision-making process is slow and search consensual decisions. Eventually, opinion conflicts involving the citizens, during the natural disasters, can occur, which symbolize some kind of societal hazards. But, the Segonia government works to mantain peace and comfort for the population through the dialogue and direct political participation.