Argentina
-Improve Stability: Excellent Success. The people see the monarchy as a stabilizing force.
-Work on Argentina’s debt problem: Limited success. There is just not enough money.
-Work on Argentina’s corruption problem: Excellent Success.
Australia
-PROTO: Adequate Success. PROTO will continue to work reasonably well together.
-Fight Environmental degradation: Adequate Success. Massive investment yields significant improvement.
-Survey Callisto (Sol-Zeta-Ay): Failure with Minor Mishap. Much confusion and delay. The Crow’s Nest Settlement is grounded.
Brazil
-Investigate USA interference in Venezuela: Minor Mishap. The international community is incensed at the harassment, Prestige will be penalized.
-Decrease environmental degradation. Unusual Success. Improved soil management and improved yields.
-Improve stability and decrease corruption by enhancing AI management (continued): Success. The cold tendrils of the AIs are well funded.
-Decrease Oil demand (alternative infrastructure) : Adequate success. Oil production will be increased, though not as much as hoped.
-Improve GDP growth (continued). Adequate success. Results are commensurate with the small investment.
-Confederation with Venezuela (continued): Failure, with Minor Mishap. Brazilian control over Venezuela is extensive but not nearly enough to convince the average person to accept it.
-Investigation of foreign influence in Venezuela: Failure. Nothing useful is learned.
-Attempt to improve on the success of increasing GDP growth: Failure with Minor Mishap. The indigenous peoples are blockading this and the global environmental movement is helping.
Canada
-Reduce oil demand in Canada: Limited Success. Building a rail line linking provinces together is a very cheap thing compared to building all the rail lines needed to link communities and neighbourhoods together.
-Increase oil SRU production: Excellent Success. Many new oil sources are brought online.
-Increase GDP in Canada from improved northern shipping routes: Limited Success. It is a difficult thing to convince shipping companies to invest in a war zone.
-Increase the stability of Canada: Success. The social programs are well funded for now.
China
-Fast Neutron Reactors: Limited Success. More reactors are built and they have been stable so far... but a critical potential flaw was discovered necessitating costly retrofits and upgrades.
-U.F.E.P. Stage1: Success. This small effort will yield a small bonus to Stage 2
-U.F.E.P. Stage2: Modest Success. Electric conversion kits are simple enough to be somewhat effective, but it is still hard to beat the cost efficiency, flexibility, and ubiquity of a petrol engine.
-Tàikōng rén: Limited Success. This relatively small investment in such a fundamental re-ordering of large society
-Participation in Trans Eurasia Project Partnership : Limited Success. Such a small investment in such an ambitious project as linking the continents together means that the final result is little more than a small scale public relations project
-Contribution to Korea: No permission from Korea to act. Action wasted.
-Investigate UFO incident from 2035: Partial Failure. The tales of old men lose nothing in their retelling.
French Republic
-EU maintenance: Limited Success. The EU will continue on as it has.
-Baiting Russia: Limited Success. Obviously this has been met with a yawn by most of humanity.
German Republic
-Armenian Reconstruction: Modest Success. For such a little nation, this relatively large effort should have had more of an impact.
-EU maintenance: Failure. The EU is just too big of a thing.
-Starting of a European Confederation: Failure with Major Mishap. Your proposals are not nearly attractive enough to garner much interest, trying harder made Germany look overbearing and desperate.
-Improving relations with Italy: Success with Minor Mishap. Italy will agree with a condition, which was not really met so little improvement is seen.
-Improving relations with Netherlands: Success.
-Reduce oil needs according option 3: Success.
-Aid Libya: Limited Success. Having planes waiting in Europe could do little to aid against Egyptian destabilization efforts.
India
-Svarg ka Phir Janm: Excellent Success. Many hands make light work.
-Increase Oil Production: Excellent Success. Much new energy reserves are found
Indonesia
-Increase Oil Infrastructure: Limited Success. Oil production will be increased, but only a limited amount.
-Reduce Corruption: Failure. Failure to pay the appropriate bribes to the right people is enough to get arrested for bribery.
Terrorist Attempt Attack with WMDs in USA: Houston, USA : A terrorist attack was thwarted in Houston, a smiling spokesperson for Homeland Security said today. ”Thanks to the much criticised communications-surveillance programs we were able to stop this before it happened. We have strong indications that the chemical warfare device we intercepted came from the ex-Syrian stockpile, now in the hands of Islamic fundamentalists flying the banner of the so called ‘Caliphate’. So even though our coalition has destroyed much of their overt military capabilities and occupied the territory which they themselves occupied, The Islamic Caliphate still has terrorist capabilities. Alas we cannot give more info at this time.” WSJ journalist Tom Severs was later detained for questioning after asking about a ”Project THOR”, he has yet to be released.
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Japan
-Make the senior population a resource: Success. This small investment will yield equally small results.
Korea
-None.
Nigerian Republic
-Nigeria National Security Council (NNSC) increase Stability: Success. The NNSC has the authority to improve Stability.
-NNSC increase authority of Nigerian government: Failure with Major Mishap. There are riots in the streets of people not willing to obey.
-Fight societal corruption: Success.
-Continue investigation of the Armenia crisis: Failure with Minor Mishap. For all of the effort, Nigerian investigators have suspiciously turned up nothing solid.
-Promote relation with Niger: Success. Things in Niger are chaos right now. Some gold and a few truckloads of guns is all it takes to buy the cooperation of many militias.
-Support OPEC authority: Failure with Superficial Damage. There are many proposals circulated by Nigeria but there is no concrete action
Nordic Federation
-Nordic Federation Government become more assertive: Success, with a major mishap. To the great fear and agitation of the population, especially the idealistic youth, that worries about its freedoms being taken away.
-Nordic Federation Government increase law enforcement. Success. The ample police are out in force keeping a check on things.
-Prestige from Major Project: Failure with minor mishap. *Winning a war* is good for Prestige.
-Armenia stabilization: Success. Putting that much effort into such a small nation will have a noticeable impact.
-Participation in Trans Eurasia Project Partnership: Limited Success. Such a small investment in such an ambitious project as linking the continents together means that the final result is little more than a small scale public relations project.
-Claim hexes 6N11, 9N6, 10N3. All failed.
Persian Empire
-Continue secularization of Persian countryside: Failure. Some more country boys migrate to the city life.
-Increase Prestige of Persia: Success. Various goodwill gestures do the trick.
Russian Federation
-Massive Universal Education Program: Modest Success. The youth will still do what the youth want to do.
-Decrease corruption by replacing the old bureaucrats with the new generation of MUE: Limited Success. The old teach the young, and even when they do not, the young are pretty good about figuring it out for themselves.
-Decrease Environment Degradation: Success. Cleanup is time consuming and painstaking work, but it is proceeding.
-Decrease Oil Consumption. Limited Success. Many engineering and environmental challenges.
-Increase Oil SRU production. Limited Success.
-OTC/OQC action - orbit debris removal. Indefinite Success. Junk is picked up and Orbital Traffic is controlled.
-Fast Neutron Reactors in China: Limited Success. More reactors are built and they have been stable so far... but a critical potential flaw was discovered necessitating costly retrofits and upgrades.
-Increase GDP in Russia from improved northern shipping routes: Limited Success. It is a difficult thing to convince shipping companies to invest in a war zone.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
-Pacify Yemen: Success: Saudi forces are able to impose order over the rubble.
-Maintain the Gulf Cooperative Council: Limited success. The lines of communication are open.
-Pacify/reconstruct Iraq: Success. It is sectarian chaos in Iraq right now.
-Attempt to take control of Yemen: Success. The tribes are not happy about it, but are not in a position to oppose this.
United Kingdom
-STEAM: Partial Success. The enthusiasm has faded a bit but education continues to be a priority.
-The Poseidon Initiative. Success. Some of the shallow waters off of Britain are buzzing, only some.
-Advanced Recycling. Unusual Success. Much is cleaned up and needs are reduced.
USA
-Kurdish Aid: Success. Such a large effort for such a small nation.
-Turkish Aid: Success. Things are bloody in Turkey right now.
-Korean Aid: No permission from Korea to act. Action wasted.
-Improve Taiwan relations: Success. The USA already dominates Taiwan.
-Reduce Japan’s relations with Taiwan: Success. The USA already dominates Taiwan.
-NATO Upkeep: Partial Success with Minor Mishap: Germany’s attempts at creating a German centric European coalition cause interference.
-Oil, Oil we want more Oil: Excellent Success. Much new oil sources are found and put online.
-Building Bases and Friends: Success. Such a large effort for such a small nation as Kurdistan.
-E Pluribus Unum: Limited Success. Only Settlement#155 (Hawaii) and hexes 4N4, 4N5, and 4N6, will be incorporated into the reformed Settlement#145, but NOT 5N2, 5N3, 5N4, 5N5, and Settlement#154 (Alaska).
-The UN is apparently still a thing! Success. UN peacekeeping missions are deployed in many places
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