Estra

Country name: Estra
Starting land: Modern day Madagascar, Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho, South Africa and the small Mauritius, Comoros and Seychelles Islands.
Location and name of Capital City: Estran. Located in southern Mozambique, almost exactly on the Tropic of Capricorn, on the coast.
Government type: Pure Democracy. Massive intranet forums and polls taken part by anyone over the age of 20 decides how everything is governed.
Religion: No religion / Atheism. Public choice, but many pro-religious people are shunned in public after what religion did to the world.
Starting Population: 23,862,000 of voting age according to the last census.
Information on size of Military:
AIR:
10 Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules with crew. $63 million each - $630 million.
100 Dassault Rafale C's. $83 million each. $8.3 billion.
30 Dassault Mirage IV's. $220 million each. $6.6 billion.
5 Kamov Ka-50 Attack helicopters with single pilot. $16 million each - $80 million.
20 CH-47 Chinook Helicopters with crew. $40 million each - $800 million.
Total: $16,410,000,000
GROUND:
100 T-90 Russian main battle tanks with crew. $3 million each - $300 million.
15 M777 howitzers with crew. $5 million each - $75 million.
10 Surface mounted anti-ship P-5 Pyatyorka missile batteries. $10 million each. $100 million. +
400 anti-ship P-5 Pyatyorka missiles. $250,000 each. $100 million.
150 NZLAV's with crew. $5 million each. $750 million.
Total: $1,325,000,000
SHIP:
1 Charles de Gaulle class aircraft carrier with crew. $4 billion. Complement of 35 Dassault Rafale M. $91 million each. $4 billion + $3.19 billion. $7.19 billion total.
3 Mistral class amphibious assault ships with crew. $540 million each. Complement of 20 Kamov Ka-50's for each craft. $16 million each. $1.62 billion + $960 million. $2.58 billion total.
8 Albion class landing platform docks. $752 million each. $6.016 billion.
1 Virginia class submarine with crew. $3 billion.
10 Houbei class missile boats with crew. $102 million each. $1.02 billion.
5 Formidable class frigates with crew. $500 million each. $2.5 billion.
4 Zumwalt class destroyers with crew. $4 billion each. $16 billion.
Total: $40,306,000,000
INFANTRY:
200,000 Infantry trained to level two. $100,000 each. $20 billion.
20,000 Special infantry trained to level five. $600,000 each. $12 billion. (I tripled regular cost.)
20,000 Infantry equipped with RBS 70 man-portable, laser guided missile systems. (2 soldiers per team, meaning 10,000 RBS 70's.) $62,000 Each. $1.24 billion.
Total: $33,240,000,000

Total Cost: $89,281,000,000.

$10,719,000,000 remaining.

Starting technologies:1. Super-fast, super massive intranet systems to support the polling also act to communicate between established bases of operations and command centers instantly. Also communicates knowledge easier, making research and progression easier/faster.
2. Massive, advanced Maglev train system runs throughout nation, making transport easy and super-fast. The trains utilize superconductivity, which is expensive to maintain but effective. A vast, separate, military specific system is also present along the land borders and between command centres and training facilities etc. which is used to transport troops, armour and equipment.
Currency:
100 Estri equals 1 Est (both singular and plural).
Est is Equivalent to 1.3 Swiss Francs
Tax: 15% Flat rate.
Anything else: No single company owns any part of the diamond industry (apart from shipping, what-not), and all profits go directly to the government for spending on infrastructure and defence. This helps keep the tax-rate comparatively low as it supplements the treasury.
FLAG:


Empire Colour: Red

Can I ask why you tripled the regular cost?

Special infantry require several years more training, have far superior armour and weaponry and generally get payed more for their service.
I assume that's what you're referring to. Special infantry are like my SAS or Delta Force.

Its your choice, but I will up them to level five.

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