Military of Footballia

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The Footballian Imperial Military Force is rougly 2% of population, or about 60 million.

The Footballian National Army

(FNA)
The FNA is the largest and best-funded of the Footballian military branches. The FNA has sixteen bases it uses with the NACGF around the land borders of Footballia. There are nearly 13 million soldiers in the FNA, with roughly half being the reserves, and half of each of the divisions being not on active duty. The just over three million active soldiers are stationed at the sixteen bases, with the best-defended posts on the borders with Hockey Canada and Neu Amerika. The defenses on the Starblaydia and Nova Britannicus borders are less, due in large part to friendlier relations and ideological similarities.

The FNA relies on speed and manueverability to defeat its foes, having a large number of light, fast tanks and quick Armored Personell Carriers.

Tanks

The Footballian Tank Corps (FTC) is composed largely of the F-Tank Mark VII. The FTM7, as it is often shortened to, has relatively thin armor in order to reduce weight. There are also a few Heavy F-Tanks, which are much stronger and more powerful, but slower, and are used predominately at the beginning to force a breakthrough and are then left for defensive purposes in the interest of speed.

F-Tank Mark VII

The FTM7 is a modified version of the Russian T-90, the only major modification being the addition of two small machine guns on the front.

The Footballian National Navy

(FNN)
The FNN is essentially a souped-up coast guard. It has a few guard ships, and an Air Corps, which is the most important portion of the Navy. The FNN currently has 43 one hundred-fifty man cutters that it uses to guard the coast and prepare for any possible seaborne invasion across Lake Bekk.

The National Air Corps of Greater Footballia

(NACGF)
The NACGF is the second-best funded wing of the Footballian military. It stands ready to go at nearly any time. NACGF has received an increasing priority from the government in order to help protect Footballia from the Hockey Canadian menace to the northwest.

Tactics

The tactics of the Footballian military mirror that of Blitzkrieg, however the Footballians refer to it as Rápinfro, literally "Fast War". This developed from the fact that the vast majority of Footballia is flat, and due to friendly relations with Starblaydia, most wars are expected to be fought over flat terrain. It is because of this reliance on speed and surrounding enemy forces that the FNA had such trouble conquering the northeastern mountain Rorçn.

Obsolete Units

Imperial Cavalry

(IC)
The cavalry was at one point the most important part of the FNA, riding speedy Footballian horses into battle. They were easily the most feared part of the army. However, the advent of machine guns and repeating rifles rendered cavalry all but useless. There remains only a ceremonial Cavalry Company of 100 men stationed in Loçñalkyo.

The Footballer Corps

(FC)
The Footballer Corps was an elite division of the Cavalry. There is now a ten-man squad of Footballers in the Ceremonial Cavalry Company.

The Civilian Portion

Note that neither of these are included in the numbers for the military.

Civilian Defense Corps

(CDC)

The Footballian National Police Force

(FNPF) The FNPF is the police of Footballia, and being part of the best-funded sector in Footballia, it retains large numbers of men and advanced equipment, and is often seen as being nearly everyone.

Nuclear and Other Large Weapons

In 1276, Footballia began a nuclear program. Three years and several billion footballs later, however, the program was apparently shut down, although this has yet to be positively confirmed by the Overlord. Footballia has not, however, made any pretenstions of having a nuclear program/weapons, and most safely assume that it has neither, although the government has confirmed that the Empire has the technology required for nuclear missiles. In 1284, Footballia began developing a space program, and by the next year had launched an empty satellite into orbit before its orbit decayed and it landed in Lake Bekk. In late 1286, a human was launched into space for roughly a day before landing in the Lake. Currently there are three Footballian satellites officially in orbit, a military one, an FBC satellite for television and radio, and one by Electronics of Greater Footballia, which is used largely for cell phones. Rumors abound of a top secret Imperial project to place an armed space station into orbit, rumors supported by very large amounts of "miscellaneous" spending on military budget reports.

Ranks

These are the rankings of the Imperial Military and Defense Force. OF refers to Officers, UO to Underofficers, and EM to enlisted men.

Class FNA/CDC FNN NACGF
OF-11 Markalk Flet-Adaral
OF-10 Jenral Ons-Adaral
OF-9 Majoir-Jenral Dos-Adaral Ons-Jenral
OF-8 Litenant-Jenral Dos-Jenral
OF-7 Brijad-Jenral Komador
OF-6 Kernel Flet-Kapiton Kapiton
OF-5 Litenant-Kernel Kapiton
OF-4 Majoir Komandent Majoir
OF-3 Kapiton Litenant-Komandent Kapiton
OF-2 Ons-Litenant Ons-Litenant
OF-1 Dos-Litenant Litenant Dos-Litenant
Student Officer Ofik-Stodant Ofik-Stodant Ofik-Stodant
UO-4 Sarjaç-Majoir Sarjaç Sarjaç-Majoir
UO-3 Sarjaç-Klaons Sarjaç-Klaons
UO-2 Kopral-Klaons Esiñ Kopral-Klaons
UO-1 Kopral-Klados Kopral-Klados
EM-3 Priña-Klaons Priña-Klaons Priña-Klaons
EM-2 Sodi-Noea Oseombro-Noea Piro-Noea
EM-1 Priña Priña Priña

Operations Rockslide, Mudslide, and Step

These are top-secret military plans for any hypothetical military invasion by Starblaydia, Nova Britannicus, or Hockey Canada, respectively.