Exetonia

Exetonia

Flag of Exetonia
Motto: Power to the People and the Masses
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Region	The Established Lands
Capital	Exeter
Official Language(s)	English Exetonian German French
Leader	Harold Johanson the 12th
Population	aprroximately 1.6 Billion
Currency	Exlot
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Exetonia is a large nationstate in The Established Lands region. She has an approximate population of 1.525 billion the vast majority of whom are employed. At current time of writing, the unemployment rate of those legally allowed to work is 5.25%)Citizens are called Exetonians. She has three major industries: Automobile Manufacturing industry (the most prominent), followed by Information Technology sector and Uranium Mining respectively. The Automobile manufacturing industry employs approximately 37.5% of the work force with the I.T sector employing around 22% and the Uranium Mining industry around 17%. Notable companies in Exetonia include:

• Exetonia Hydrogen Automotive - Member of EAA (Exetonian Automobile Association)
• Exetonia Electronica Automotive - Member of EAA (Exetonian Automobile Association)
• ExoSoft
• ESDC (Exetonia Software Development Company)
• Exetonian Mining corporation
• EASA (Exetonian AeroSpace Assosiation)

From 2005 until 2035 Exetonia took herself away from international politics and closed her borders. Although Exetonians could travel the world, they were limited on what they could take with them and what they could bring back. The national currency of Exetonia, the Exlot (currently trading on the world markets at $1.0183 per Exlot) was not allowed to leave the country. The only contact Exetonia had with the outside world was through the world markets and currency exchange. The only trade during this period was tourism and money. However many things happened during this time Listed below are the most notable points:

Birth of EASA

After the decision by the government to leave world politics and with a booming economy coming from the business sector it was decided that civilian scientists be allowed to take on the role of going into space rather than the military purley and simply to save costs to the military budget.

This worked out best for both sectors. In 2010, EASA (the Exetonian Aerospace Association) was born and work began immediately on coverting dissuesd missile silos and missiles to rocket launch stations and rockets for unmanned travel into space. Alongside this project plans were being drawn up for manned projects into space with EASA looking at going to the moon, then to mars and then eventually getting a working scientific space station built in orbit and sustainable for 40-50 years.

By 2014, 3 missile silos and approximately 40 missiles had been converted to Rocket launch stations and rockets respectively. Several prototype guidance devices had been constructed to test with these rockets as well as the Ex1 prototype communications sattelite and Ex2 prototype Military sattelite. The first test launch took place on september 24th 2014 and was an unmitigated disaster. The launch vehicle exploded 45 seconds in to flight. Luckily, this first test rocket was only carrying a dummy payload.

Scientists went back to the drawing board and in 2017, on the 15th of may, the second test flight of an exetonian Rocket took place. This was a complete sucess using the ExGD [Exetonian Guidance Device] mkII. EASA now had approximately 250 to 300 expendable launch vehicles and research was well under way to devise a rocket safe enough and powerful enough to get a manned space capsule into space. Plans were also being drawn up for a space shuttle capable of launching/landing from/on a runway.

Over the next three years 145 rockets would be launched of which, 130 would sucessfully deliver their payload, (100 civilian communications satelites and 30 military satelites.) 10 would unsucessfully deliver their payload, (10 military satelites,) due to malfunctions with guidance and release software and 5 of which exploded before reaching the atmosphere. (these 5 were also carrying Military sattelites.

By 2020, the construction of a rocket powerful enough to get a manned space capsule into space was complete and the building of a specialised launch silo had begun. In the 10 years EASA had been around, 1.5 trillion Exlots (approximately 1.527 trillion dollars) had been spent on research, construction and launching of space vessels and had been pretty much left alone by the government. Now the Government was starting to take notice and felt it was time to match the funding that EASA had from the civilian sector to speed up the process of research and construction.

In 2022, EASA launched its first manned space mission. Although the total time in space would only amount to 45 minutes, the manned mission from a rocket launch was a sucess. It had, by this point, been worked out by the EASA research teams that rockets like this one would be needed to get the moon, let alone mars. This the point at which it was decided a shuttle launched from a runway would only be suitable for launching/repairing satelites and carrying parts for any space stations that may be designed/built in the future. The plus side to this was that EASA could eventually abandon rocket launched satelites and the military (in the near future) could convert these rocket launch sites back into missile silos. [more on that later.]

In 2025 EASA had launched over 450 satelites (350 civilian, 150 military) and 15 manned space mission (starting at 45 minutes and eventually reaching as long as 3 days) and the Space Shuttle prototype had been constructed. On March 1st 2025 this prototype was launched sucessfully from Cape Verdi in the North of Exetonia. The crew spent 1 week in space carrying out maintainance on 12 satelites before returning safely home to Cape Verdi. EASA sent the space shuttle into mass production and over the next 3 years built no less than 29 shuttles whilst decomissioning the old launch sites and rockets.

Also during this period, the Manned rocket program was set the task of converting the rocket and manned capsule into a system capable of making it to the moon. 1.75 trillion Exlots (approximately 1.78 trillion Dollars) was spent by EASA and the same amount by the military during this period to design and implement the systems required for this task. 5 Rockets were built and 5 crews trained for their mission.

June 21st, 2028 is a day that will be rememberd for a long time by all Exetonians. On this day, Lunar 1 and her crew were lost in the atmosphere after a catastrophic reaction in the fuel tanks. All 5 crew were lost instantly when Lunar 1 Exploded at 187,000 feet. This was a huge setback for EASA and a 1 year investigation was launched. The disaster was caused by a sabotuer working for a then unknown terrorist group. New security meaures were introduced and exactly 1 year later, Lunar 2 and her crew were launched from the now renamed Lunar Rocket center and Laverfal point in the southeast of the country. The mission lasted just over 37 days with the men spending 7 days on the moon. This was a brilliant boost for EASA and a huge morale boost for the civilian population.

Also during this period designs had been made for a space station to sit in orbit above Exetonia monitoring all civilian and military communications coming from exetonia and to keep a check on the satelites status. These plans would be presented to EASA in August 2030 before being submitted to the government in the december of that year. By Feburary 2031 construction of parts for the space station had begun and with all 10 shuttles being launched at any one time carrying parts (and eventually supplies) by the end of 2031 the station was well underway. It would be completed by the end of 2033.

By the time of writing, EASA had spent over 6 trillion Exlots with the government matching that. in 30 years the space program had cost 12 trillion Exlots total (approx 12.21 trillion dollars) but, Exetonia had established itself as a modern day space nation. Plans are underway to build a small launch base on the moon to be able to start manned missions to mars and also to design a shuttle capable of making it to the moon, although it is believed these will have to be constructed/fuled in space and a new space station will have to be built to accomodate this.

The Uranium mining/refining industry

In 2010, geologists located an abundance of Uranium in the Exelotian mountains in the center of Exetonia. It was decided by the Government that this fuel source be mined. within 5 years 20 huge Uranium mines had opened up across the 200 Km expanse of the Exelotian mountains. At first Candu reactors were built and unenriched uranium used. This created enough power for Exetonia ut the government wanted better. Enter the ENRT (Exetonian Nuclear Research Team) This team over the next 5 years (bringing us to 2020) began reserach into enriching Uranium and producing more energy. They also realised another more 'useful' potential for Uranium 235. (more about that later.)

By 2022, 14 Uranium enrichment centers had opened up across the country. There were protests but in the minorities because of the stringent security around these centers and the nuclear power plants themselves. It is in the year 2022 that the conversion of all existing candu power plants into fully fledged nuclear powerplants would begin. This would take 7 years. Increasing the output of energy an estimated 3-4 times.

By 2030 Exetonia was producing a huge surplus of Uranium. The government was using what it could to build up a nuclear arsenal but, there was still an abundance of Uranium left over. The uranium mining/refining industry was one of the first to put pressure on the government to open up her borders again (though it this process would take 5 years)

It is now estimated that the Uranium export industry in both refined and unrefined quantities is worth approximately 1.27 trillion Exlots a year (around about 1.30 trillion dollars). Countries and organisations wishing to buy Uranium from Exetonia have to pass stringent checks. It is believed that Exetonia uses independant nations/orginisations to carry out these checks. A request has been made for the black list of nations/orginisations who should not be sold nuclear material.

Other Industries

The Automotive and IT industries are booming in Exetonia and have been for over 30 years now. Exetonia is one of the leading Automoblie countries in the world with its citizens driving around mainly in hydrogen cell cars and/or eletric cars.

The IT sector in Exetonia is huge with EXOSoft commanding the market. All the major business networks are looked after by EXOsoft. EXOsoft has many anti-virus programmes out and about (they are looking to break into the international world) and also has controling shares in a lot of software companies. Business like this is not illegal in Exetonia.

This all helped the economy to continue to thrive. Exetonia now boasts (at the time of writing) a powerhouse economy with the autmobile industry leading the way. It is however as metioned above Uranium exports that makes the majority of international sales (at the time of writing).

Now that I've talked about the civilian sector a little bit and given you a very brief history of the past 30 years it is time to give you an idea of the government. At the moment it looks like this:

SUPREME BENEVOLENT DICTATOR

Under him you have the 11 Advisors incontrol of different governmental departments. (At the time of writing only 10 are in use as there is no minister for religion. Tis area recieves no funding as it is left up to the people what to decide.)

Now under each of them, are 2 ministers who help to organise the department. These lesser ministers have in turn under them 4 civilians (or medium ranked military personnel) each who do the menial tasks of speaking to the public, arranging meetings, taking minutes and of course making coffee and/or tea at the same time as filing files into folders or updating the computer network. Here are the 6 most important people in Exetonia at the time of writing:

• Supreme Benevolent Dictator, Harold Johanson the 12th

• Greg Basildon Military Advisor to Harold Johanson. Chief of the armed forces.

• Sarah Cohagen Civilian Advisor (business sector) to Harold Johanson

• Dr. Eric Von Kesselwhaite Civilian Advisor (Space/aerotech industries) to Harold Johanson.

• Elizabeth Horaden, Chief Treasurer

• Alex DuChannel, Media Advisor to Harold Johanson.

Exetonian Military

Defence projects/networks

Since the discovery of Uranium and ways to enrich it and due to a lot of research into nuclear fission and fusion, Exetonia was able to stockpile a quantity of nuclear weapons located at silos located across Exetonia. In total there are a predicted 50 to 75 silos each containing at any one time 20 to 30 Peace Keeper Missiles. Each contains 21 Avco MK 21 re-entry vehicles each containing an estimated 4 megatonne yeild.

Since realising that the proliferation of nuclear weapons might make Exetonia a target there is installed in the country at a great cost to the tax payer a syatem of bunkers capable of containing just over 375 million citizens. In the event of nuclear war, the people who will gain access to these bunkers after senior offcials and business men will be decided by national security numbers.

Within this bunker network, there are also 5 permanently manned defence bunkers which in the result of a nuclear warhead detonating on Exetonian soil are orderd to fire all the missiles. This order cannot be undone on anyones authority except that of the current supreme benevolent dictator. It requires eye and voice and finger print recognition via a secure link up to the bunkers from the government bunker. This transmission is not through sattelite but rather through cable due to the high risk factor of an emp pulse from a nuclear blast knocking out communications.

Updates to the Military

Exetonia has sought to purchase the following to replace outdated technologies:

• 3000 x Falcon 680Bs
• 4 x Atlantis Class Trimaran Super Dreadnaught
• 4 x Admiral Class Battle Carrier
• 8 x Stingray Class Guided Missile Cruiser
• 16 x Flanker Class Destroyer
• 1020 x The Seagull (STOVL aircraft)

THIS FACT BOOK IS ALWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION