Difference between revisions of "Vault 10"

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History

Vault 10 emerged around a deep nuclear war bunker with the same name, located in the Freedom Hall. The Vault 10 was a large, partially underground nuclear mining, industry and research complex, encompassing all stages from uranium mining to production of combat-ready warheads.

After surviving nuclear strike, Vault 10 remained as a closed underground system concerned only about survival, but on the night of September 11 the massive doors have opened, and the first inhabitants, wearing armored environment suits with dark black visors, and armed to the teeth, carefully stuck their guns out of the vault.

Today Vault 10 is a small, socially progressive nation of hard-working scientists and engineers, continuing their traditional business: producing top-grade nuclear weapons and renting them to ones who have enemies to incinerate.

Religion

The only church in Vault 10

Freedom of speech is held to its highest, and each citizen is entitled to a personal virtual server and yearly five minutes on one of the TV channels. Shows with explicitly insulting racist, ageist, elitist and counterelitist material, like Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things are among the most popular ones, and the public laughs upon everyone not excluding themselves.

The population of Vault 10 is widely recognized as being one of the most cynical in The World. All religious organizations are charged with spreading bogus theories, demanded to pay full taxes, and required to insert disclaimers that their preaches are not based on any facts, and as result there are none of them in Vault 10. People of the Vault have always maintained critical view on religion, but, however, it is not outlawed, and there is a church in Vault 10 - Church's Chicken fast food restaurant.

Economy

Economy of Vault 10 is built around weapons trading and heavy industry. Vault 10 economy has passed different stages, starting as a fully state-owned business inside the Vault, spreading into large corporations, which latyer totally seized all power, and, finally, government and corporations administrations merged. Today the medium-sized government is so intertwined with companies that it's hard to tell whether it is corporation-controlled state or state-controlled business. Everyone is free to start his own business, however large profitable business owners pay much more income tax than the average of 18%.

Economy of Vault 10 once was developing in all directions, but, however, some industries proved inferior. The civilian cars built in Vault 10 were just unarmed military ones, and, being uncomfortable, lost customers. Soon after that a dedicated study of economics was done, and it was decided to completely abolish all tariffs, allowing only profitable businesses survive. Vault 10 maintains underground bases sufficient for all basic needs.

A small but healthy private sector is dominated by the Furniture Restoration industry.

Ecology

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A typical cat in Vault 10

Major nuclear strikes and fallout, both from nuclear weapons and from uranium mines and destroyed industries have greatly influenced biosystems on the surface. Dense forests are mixed up with lifeless wastelands, and animals are greatly varied. While most areas are clean from radioactive contamination, every citizen or approved visitor can receive long-term and short-term radiation protection pills, and compact dosimeters are embedded in all coats, vests and jackets produced in Vault 10. One of the most popular pets is a radiation-resistant cat of unique Vault 10 breed.

Defense

Defense budget of Vault 10 is 0 caps, which is fully sufficient to deter any nation from considering attack. Instead of centralized army Vault 10 relies on its corporations for defense. As the major export product is fully assembled nuclear missiles of all sorts, a few thousands of them are always waiting for customer in ready-to-fire condition. For other matters the official policy is "Government is not responsible for any use of rented weapons", and the corporations frequently rent weapons to proxy rogue states for 1 cap with condition to be immediately fired upon a specified target.

Art

Vault 10 is strongly supportive of all forms of independent art, while strongly discouraging popular centralized culture. Elaborate graffiti graces every city's streets, interior and exterior of factories, and the official color palette for ships, planes and vehicles is three-dimensional graffiti, drawn by the crew, which has a side-effect of confusing potential opponents. Independent bands of all sorts are playing in thousands of clubs all over the cities, on the streets, in the underground vaults, and every military ship (due to lack of civilian ones) has a small rock club aboard.

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It is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, a referendum must be held in order for any new law to be passed, and the nation's youth is held blameless for all crimes. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate.