Factions and Organizations:
Free State Alliance (FSA): One of the three major powers in the world in 2100. In 2067 when South Africans, tired of the corrupt rule of Zuma the III, overthrew their government and a Afrikaans speaking party took control. Weeding corruption by the roots, other nations took notice. in 2070 Botswana and Namibia joined with the pariah state of Rhodesia-Zimbabwe in asking for South African aid. The Free State Alliance was born. More nations joined the Alliance over the years (Zambia (2072), Mozambique (2073), Angola and Tanzania (2075), The Rift Valley States (2076), African Mandate territories (2077), and Greater Nigeria and Kenya (2080)). In each of these nations, tough anti-corruption laws, education reform, and capital and technology carried out something that the world never expected. It unlocked the potential of Africa. This Alliance is far from perfect, as many feel uncomfortable with its limited suffrage, song linkage of religion and state, and paternalistic view. It's expansion into the Horn of Africa and Iran in 2092 was met with major concern, as it put the FSA on the border of Russia and North American Union investments in the middle east. These concerns blew up in the 2097 Réunion crisis. The FSA believes in a strong, paternalistic (some would say Fascist) state, the good of the many outweigh the individual, a colonial mindset, and each citizen duty is to God, Family, and the State.
Free State Intelligence Service (FSIS): The main Intelligence service for the Free State Alliance. It works in conjunction with the existing national agencies of Free State Alliance member states.
Free State Space Administration (FSSA): Is a merger of the South African National Earth Observation Strategy (SAEOS), South African National Space Agency (SANSA), Iranian Space Agency (ISA), and the Trans-Africa Space Project (TASP). The FSSA goals are, "To carry out civilian exploration, both robotic and manned, to licence and support the commercial opportunities of modern spaceflight, and maintain an observational ability to improve the environment, commercial concerns both on Earth and space, and in peacekeeping." Staffing will include both military and civilian personnel. Ships use the VSS designation.
North American Union (NAU): Formed out of the chaos of the Second Great Depression of 2033, the initial economic steps of an enhanced North American Free Trade Accord (NAFTA) were so successful that further continental integration occurred in the 2040s and 2050s. By 2077, all three nation-states of the USA, Canada and Mexico were ready to cede their sovereignty to the formation of the North American Union. On 1 August 2077, the creation documents were signed by all three parties at the Geogrpahic Center of the Continent in Rugby, North Dakota. The Rugby documents (the Declaration of Union and the Constitution) quelled the last reserves of the nationalists in all three nation-states and was a clear victory for the continentalist parties. The North American Continentalist Party won the first North American elections on 1 March 2078 and has been in power for most of the latter part of the 21st Century. The NACP has developed a platform of Enhanced Manifest Destiny for North America. The discoveries of late 2099 has simply given them a new direction - MANIFEST DESTINY in SPAAAACE!
Russian Confederation/Russian Confederacy (RUS): Kievan Rus', The Principalities of Chernigov, Polotsk, Galicia–Volhynia, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Tsardom of Russia, The United Soviet Socialist Republics, The Confederation of Independent States, the Russian Confederacy, names may change but one this is certain Russia endures, Russian endures.
The Russian Confederacy originally began as an economic block formed to built and reform after the second great depression of 2033, a semi closed market promising that the East would never again be dragged down by the greed of the Western money markets.
Initially consisting of Russia and her surrounding states, by 2048 the economic agreement eventually extended across the pacific to the markets of South America, amongst the countries that former had trade ties with Russian before the Depression.
As the economic ties grew into military and cultural ties, the member states demanded more say in the governing of the block, so the Russian Confederacy was formed in 2065 with the Zook Constitution with representatives of all the member states being allow a place in the Central Committee of the Politburo and a chance to run to Chairman.
This did result in a certain level of factionalism finding its way into the Central Committee with the Army, Navy, Civilian sectors and Technocrats all pushing their own agendas, but it is said in the maelstrom of the Politburo, only the strongest agendae survive.
Russia might be divided in means to achieve her aims, but Russia is always united in get goals, to be at the forefront of the world stage, Russia is still the third Rome.
What the Elections of 2100 will bring only time will tell, but at present it seems that Akim Davydov will secure the Chairmanship and seems to have the numbers to put an end for the factionalism for the time being and lead the Russian Confederation into the Trans Newtonian Age
Vrystaat Vloot (VSV): This is the Free State Navy. It has also been tasked with the space related activities. Ships use the VSS designation.
Known assets:
- Durban Academy
- Classified number of ballistic missile sites.
- Pre-Trans-Newtonian seagoing fleet tasked with anti-piracy and other naval tasks.
Vrystaat Weermag (VSW) The land forces component of the Free State Alliance.
Known Assets:
-Classified number of infantry and tank units.
