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Clayton – Chad – Turn 2
Population: 13,670,084
Government Expenditures: $5.2 billion
Population: 13,670,084
Government Expenditures: $5.2 billion
Armed Forces: 30,350
Tanks:
T-54/55 - 60
IFVs:
BMP-1 - 122
APCs:
BTR-3U - 8
BTR-80 - 24
BTR-60 - 20
WZ523 - 10
VAB - 25
Panhard M3 - 10
Oshkosh M-ATV - 12 (BGM TOW)
Oshkosh M-ATV - 8 (30mm chain gun)
Armored Cars:
Sagaie - 4
Lynx - 7
EE-9 Cascavel - 20
Cadillac Gage Commando - 9
Panhard AML-90 - 20
Panhard AML-60 - 30
RAM-2000 - 31
Bastion Patsas - 22
LAV-25A2 - 75
Utility:
Mercedes-Benz Zetros 6x6 - 75
Artillery:
Katyusha - 6
BM-21 Grad - 4
2S1 Gvozdika - 10
M101 howitzer - 5
D-30 - 22
M-46 - 6
D-20 - 18
G6 howitzers - 4
Army Aviation:
Mil Mi-35 - 5
Mil Mi-17 - 6
SA 316 - 2
AS550 - 6
ScanEagle 2 - 3 systems (4 drones per system)
Air Defense:
SA-6 Gainful - 12
SA-13 Gopher - 4
ZSU-23-4 - 4
ZPU-23-2 - 16
T-54/55 - 60
IFVs:
BMP-1 - 122
APCs:
BTR-3U - 8
BTR-80 - 24
BTR-60 - 20
WZ523 - 10
VAB - 25
Panhard M3 - 10
Oshkosh M-ATV - 12 (BGM TOW)
Oshkosh M-ATV - 8 (30mm chain gun)
Armored Cars:
Sagaie - 4
Lynx - 7
EE-9 Cascavel - 20
Cadillac Gage Commando - 9
Panhard AML-90 - 20
Panhard AML-60 - 30
RAM-2000 - 31
Bastion Patsas - 22
LAV-25A2 - 75
Utility:
Mercedes-Benz Zetros 6x6 - 75
Artillery:
Katyusha - 6
BM-21 Grad - 4
2S1 Gvozdika - 10
M101 howitzer - 5
D-30 - 22
M-46 - 6
D-20 - 18
G6 howitzers - 4
Army Aviation:
Mil Mi-35 - 5
Mil Mi-17 - 6
SA 316 - 2
AS550 - 6
ScanEagle 2 - 3 systems (4 drones per system)
Air Defense:
SA-6 Gainful - 12
SA-13 Gopher - 4
ZSU-23-4 - 4
ZPU-23-2 - 16
Air Superiority:
Mig-29 - 3
Ground Attack:
Su-25 - 8
Tornado ECR (German) - 3
Tornado GR4 - 2
Transport:
An-26 - 3
C-130H - 1
C-27J Spartan - 2
Mig-29 - 3
Ground Attack:
Su-25 - 8
Tornado ECR (German) - 3
Tornado GR4 - 2
Transport:
An-26 - 3
C-130H - 1
C-27J Spartan - 2
Domestic Affairs/Economy:
We have oil and are one of the poorest nations on earth. What the hell. Quietly form (with international assistance, see foreign relations) an anti-corruption taskforce. For now we will be vetting candidates and instructing them on the investigative techniques involved in anti-corruption. $25 million
Education – Holy cow. Ok. Attendance is really low. This is unsurprising since the majority of our population are farmers, and they need the help. There's also the cultural preferences, etc. Time to enact some reforms. The school year will be 9 months long, with a month-and-a-half break in the beginning of the year and the end of the year for planting and harvesting seasons.
As far as religion in public schools go, it will not be taught. Students can study portions of religious texts (Creation stories, for example), but public schooling will not be Christian or Islamic in nature. Private institutions are free to have a religious focus, of course. Arabic, French, and English will all be offered beginning in primary school (younger minds learn a foreign language easier).
Modern equipment, textbooks, and computers (where there's electricity) will be bought for public schools. Each school should have guidance counselors to help students who are struggling or at risk of dropping out. Offer scholarships based on financial need for students who want to go on to trade school or university.
Require that educators take 4-6 hours of Continuing Education seminars each year, these can be offered at Ecole Normale Supérieure, and Université du Tchad. These seminars can be about classroom education/management techniques, technology in the classroom, or a subject directly relating to the topics that the educator in question teaches.
Build new schools where communities don't have any within a reasonable distance, offer bus services for students that have to walk more than a half mile to school. $1 billion
Literacy – Aggressively combat illiteracy. Build libraries, offer reading classes with a special focus on parent-child programs. Advertise this as a family bonding time, and a good way to get parents interested and involved in their kid’s education. We also have some exiled authors, invite them back and ask their help in combating illiteracy. $150 million
Infrastructure – This will be a massive program. We only have 500km of paved roads, and not even all the roads in the capitol are paved. Focus on major links between towns first, then inside cities. Build two asphault plants, one in Batha, the other in Kanem, to support this project. Expand Moundou Airport to serve as a regional hub for passenger and cargo air traffic (each will have a separate terminal building). Also focus on laying water pipelines, and creating basic sanitation networks for towns. $1.5 billion
Healthcare – Create mobile clinics, basically, trained nurse staff that travel around the country with support vehicles (and security). They will have basic medical supplies such as bandages, disinfectants, water treatment pills, and antibiotics. They should also offer education on basic sanitation and water safety. Ask the WHO and IRC to help educate and supply the mobile clinics. $70 million
Industry - Begin construction of an oil refinery in the Borku region, and one in the Moyen-Chari region. $200 million
Re-open oil fields in the Kanem region, possibly with French assistance. $200 million
Energy - So...Yeah. We produce 29MW of power. We're going to need more. Begin construction of two, 200MW coal-fired plants, one in central Chad, the other in the South. Also lay out the required power grid infrastructure for this. $750 million
Refugees – We have a lot of refugees from Darfur. Let’s offer to put them to work on our infrastructure programs, offer them a route to citizenship if they work hard and behave themselves. Fast-track refugees who have STEM or education backgrounds, get those individuals involved in our education and literacy campaign programs. $100 million
Police - Ask France to help supplement our police force's procedures and training so that they are a competent, responsible, modern police force. Provide funds for improving police facilities such as stations, local jails, buying them modern communications equipment. Buy them 35 Ram-2000 police/swat package. $53.15 million
Lake Chad - Work with the Lake Chad Basin Commission to do an extensive soil sampling and analysis of the coastline around Lake Chad to determine the extent and rate of desertification, classify the soil regions around the lake, and formulate a restoration plan to fight desertification (what areas would need topsoil tilled in, what plants would suit specific soil conditions). $20 million
Agriculture - This ties into our education problem, a little. Offer (free) seminars to farmers on how to grow efficiently with mechanized equipment, and efficient water usage. Offer subsidies to subsistence farmers to buy basic mechanized farming equipment and fertilizer, larger subsidies to farmers that want to grow on a commercial scale, provided they attend further (free) seminars. We're not saying they don't know how to farm, but farming on a commercial scale is different, and we want them to be as best prepared as possible. $500 million
Legal Reform -
Increase the punishments for ethnic and religiously motivated violence. Chad has enough trouble without people killing each other over which bible they use. Also announce that I will be meeting separately and later in the year, bilaterally, with Christian and Muslim religious/community leaders in order to see what can be done to foster communication, understanding, and level-headedness between our two different religious groups, and to dispel myths/misunderstandings people may have about each other. For example there was an ugly rumor a while back about a particularly evil terrorist group that reportedly cannibalized Muslims. Normal people don't do that.
Declare the shoreline and the immediate surrounding area of Lake Chad off-limits to herd grazing. Desertification is quickly becoming a large problem and if we don't take measures to stop it, the land will be unusable anyway. This way, it isn't permanent. For herders that relied on that land, we will work out something with government owned land. We will also partner with local farmers, and suggest they allow herders to use fields being left fallow. This way, unused land generates a small income, and animal manure will fertilize the land some.
Foreign relations:
France – Hey buddy. You may have noticed we have education and corruption problems. They may go hand-in-hand. We’d like your help in improving our education system and combating illiteracy. We’re launching several programs to this effect and would like French assistance in structuring them as effectively and efficiently as possible.
Ask for French assistance in building our oil refineries and fields. (As far as the fields go, there was an operation there in the 80s but was scared away by violence. The rigs should still be there, so it might just be a matter of minor repairs/updating equipment rather than building a whole new system). Propose a 70/30 split Chad/France in profits.
Finally, we have large-scale civil engineering projects planned. We would really appreciate assistance from French civil-engineering experts in this.
Central African Republic: – Withdraw whatever officials we may have, issue an official travel advisory to our citizens against travel there due to ongoing conflict, and step up border patrols. Quietly talk to Séléka leader Michel Djotodia about the possibility of Chadian military intervention, and how many men they can field if it means bringing an end to the ethnic and religious violence. Also ask about his willingness to agree to a truce between Séléka and the Christian militias, if it could be enforced.
Transparency International – Ask for their help in establishing a TI chapter in Chad, evaluating the level of corruption in federal and local government, and formulating a path to reducing corruption. Also, please help us vet and evaluate prospective employees for an anti-corruption taskforce.
International Anti-Corruption Academy – We’d like you to develop a tailored course for Chad. You can work with Transparency International to create an effective education plan. $3 million
Lake Chad Basin Commission, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, World Bank - Lake Chad is dying. Nobody disputes this. The people that have lived along Lake Chad most their lives can give a chilling first-hand account at how swiftly the lake has retreated. The nations that comprise the Basin Commission all rely on the Lake in one way or another. It is our life, and our only major source of water. Yet if our nations are to grow, if we want to progress, if we want our 30 million citizens that rely on Lake Chad to be more than subsistence farmers with little irrigation or reliable access to safe fresh water, we have to act. If we want to prevent extinctions of the species that depend on the lake, we must act.
The UN Food and Agricultural Organization has called the lake's shrinking "an ecological catastrophe". We've all agreed that a river must be diverted to replenish Lake Chad. The World Bank and Nigeria have agreed to put a combined total of $18 million into the project. I propose that we collectively break ground on the canals next year. If we split the costs and add our collective capabilities, the project will go smoothly. 60 miles of canal is certainly doable.
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