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The Allied States of Arov is an active nation within the Global Right Alliance who is currently running for the position of interior minister with the goal of boostin activity by creating more functional entities within the region, including a Stock Market.

History

The Allied States of Arov began as an agricultural social experiment and trade enterprise by the political scientist and businessman Kusru Joannes Henry, who invested his many billions of dollars into an experiment in Anarcho-Socialism which he called A.R.O.V.I. (Adaptability in Residential Omnitude and Vested Interest). His idea was that the best government would be run by a corporation whose trade interests would make it unwise to crack down on the population it rules (its work-force), guaranteeing safety and rights, so long as weapons were held by the state to prevent land squabbles among the citizens, foreign corporations traded with the nation via the ruling corporation, and the ruling corporation did not try to sell its own goods to the population. Finding many citizens in the nationstates world who would participate in such a radical endeavor, the colony blossomed. Farmers settled the fertile land and grew their crops with the help of some immigrants, and in return for shipping their crops to be exported, they recieved a free pension in more crops (foreign-grown this time, as AgriCorp traded mostly with poor agrarian nations) to plant the next harvest, and a small check that was proportional to every amount of grain exported. Goods and services were accessed via these non-monetary checks, and they were 100%imported as part of varying trade agreements. AgriCorp became incredibly wealthy and large, and the population, so long as it remained small, was entitled to all of AgriCorp's benefits. Despite some fluctuations in the amount of goods and services available, the lack of adequate services for the chronically sick and the elderly (winters were dreadful), the high risk of crime and invasion (AgriCorp kept invaders back with trade deals), supression of trade opportunities under threat of losing crop income, and an educational system that was an international pariah, A.R.O.V.I. fended relatively well for a radical social experiment compared to others in their early years.

However, Kusru Ioannes Henry died after a long thirty two years of manning A.R.O.V.I. and AgriCorp. His successor, Yalish Borkhal, redirected AgriCorp's profits to favor more aspects of the bureaucracy than others, cutting jobs (the better educated of all fields worked in AgriCorp and were paid in money rather than grain and checks, so this was a huge blow) and services so as to enrich himself. He then rehired those who were fired into a trans-national army, so he could militarily enforce trade deals and keep the population in line. Now, AgriCorp could start supressing human rights, and it did with a boulder-like force, cracking down on immigrant workers who had earned enough to own land as well as political dissenters. Industry, however, was diversified, and the economy became a money-based one. Services to the sick and elderly increased (to an almost microscopic extent, however), and cities sprung up rapidly. Education was essentially the three r's and political indoctrination, though much better than before. Despite all this, everyone lived in fear.

A.R.O.V.I. simply became Arov (which Bible scholars pointed out was the Biblical Hebrew name for the Plague of Darkness), and AgriCorp became "The Unified and Purposeful Government of Arov."

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