Patient (Map Game)

Welcome to Patient, an apocalyptic map game. 
It was just a simple exploration mission. Something was brought back, it triggered something beneath us. People are going crazy, empty shadowed eyes and corrupted smiles as the dark aura surrounds them - looking for its next victim. Would 2028 be the beginning of the end?
Save us.
== Live Feed ==
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== Rules ==
Read the Map Game Handbook
Password is "Ajit Pai can suck a dick"
==Nations==
*Republic of Iceland - LukaGaming
*Republic of Kazakhstan - TenaciousMapping
*Kingdom of Norway - Fyorrian Mapping
*Kingdom of Spain - PlasmodiumSF
*People's Republic of China - Thundar Lord
*United States of America - EthanKoenigsberg
*Republic of Poland - ItsHosuke
*Republic of Korea - Österreichisofstronk
*Russian Federation - AenMaps
*Republic of Serbia - Singaporean Mapping
*Republic of South Africa - Priceless008
*United Kingdom of the British Isles - FedexWI
*Republic of Italy - Valor6791
*Commonwealth of Australia - Thunder2004
*Republic of Brazil - JMathias23
*Republic of Austria - SPÖSupporter
*Republic of Indonesia - Hexarafi
==On-site Staff==
*Headmaster Surgeon: Dr. Bright
*Virologist: Dr. Mann
*Immunologist: Dr. Clef
*WHO Advisor: Dr. Iceberg
*Status Feed Technician: Dr. Gears
== Briefing ==
The main aim for players is to develop a cure for the pathogen. This can be done be identifying the genetic structure of the pathogen, its origins, as well as the neutralization of its symptoms. The following guide will provide assistance to those bothered enough to push for a cure.
*Research Report on Infectious Disease Control
== Plot ==
The plot is the overarching story in the map game. As the game progresses, more and more of the story will be revealed. Sometimes, crucial information will be redacted. It will be up to the players to piece together the puzzle. Solving the redacted information per paragraph will add 5% bonus to the global cure status. Every bit of information could be important to understand the infection and therefore will lead to the cure. Remember: this is optional.
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[Cure status is not currently enabled, all current redacted info will have no effect]
== Analytics ==
*Estimated World Population - 8,690,673,506 (Turn 20)
** Non-infected: 6,516,688,800
** Infected: 1,890,420,329
*Cure Status - #!&#&@^#
*Other Outbreaks
**2029 Q2
***Ebola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Zambia and Republic of Congo, Major
***HIV, Lesotho and South Africa, Minor
***Yellow Fever, Bolivia, Colombia, Liberia, Mexico and Peru, Minor
***Diphtheria, Russia, Minor
***Measles, France, Minor
==The Game==
===2028===
===2028 Q1===
Concerns about ancient viruses being unleashed through the thawing of Siberian permafrost are common in most debates on healthcare, as well as UN and WHO conferences.
Samples of Martian soil and water indicate signs that primordial life once inhabited Mars, and quite possibly vertebrates, or something of a similar biological structure.
Tyler Enterprises propose an alternative to other energy sources, which is the utilization of the glowing Martian rocks charmingly called, "Glowstone".
The WHO reports an increase in depression cases within developed nations.
====Republic of Kazakhstan====
*Backstory: Nursultan Nazarbayev died on 11 December 2020, and an interregnum started due to several people wanting to succeed him. Eventually, Bakhytzhan Sagintayev won the fight and became president. However, people started getting unhappy, and on 1 February 2028, massive protests started in Astana, which quickly spread all over the country. Sagintayev was forced to resign on 29 February, and a new government, with Azat Peruashev of Ak Zhol Democratic Party becoming the new president. Peruashev drove Kazachstan in a more liberal way, and on a referendum held on 2 April, a new constitution and a new flag were proposed.
*Government: A presidential republic lead by Azat Peruashev.
*Military:
**Active Personnel: 37,000
**Non-active Personnel: 34,000
**Army Personnel: 20,000
**Navy Personnel: 3,000
**Airplanes: 12,000
**Ministry of Defence Personnel: 4,000
**Paramilitary Personnel: 31,000
*Economy: Kazakhstan is currently recovering from an economic crisis.
*Diplomacy:
**Russian Federation: Greetings my dear, would you like an alliance? We could all benefit from it, don't you think?
**Mongolia: Mongolia, my nomadic friend! Don't you feel trapped between two huge nations? Don't you feel poor because you have nothing but sand? Don't worry! You just have to ask for an alliance and everything will be fine! I promise. Have I ever broken a promise?
**India: India, my southern friend! Would you care about improving our relations?
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government: 
**Jair Bolsonaro is the president of Brazil for ten years by 2028. Due to a constitutional amendment approved by the congress in 2025, presidents can run for more than two terms if their approval is above 40%, which allowed Bolsonaro to be elected again in 2026. However, his popularity declined during his third term, as he alledgely manipulates approval researches to keep his approval above 40%. Also, the ideals that got him elected in 2018 and reelected in 2022 are now considered obsolete, rising the suspicion on electoral fraud. Even with his public support declining, he still holds a large part of the congress and can govern with no political problems.
*Military: 
**The Brazilian Armed Forces were reestructured and improved during Bolsonaro's rule. By 2028, around 2.5 million men are in reserve due to Brazil's mandatory draft system, while 400,000 are deployed in border patrol, anti-deforestation operations in the Amazon and Cerrado, garrisoning and abroad humanitary missions.
**The Air Force is currently engaged in extensively patrolling the Amazon Rainforest, as big farmers keep expanding their farms into the forest. It's also cooperating with the Army to identify and shoot down aircraft used in drugs and weapons traffic. The use of airplanes to transport illegal material increased in the last years, since they can't be stopped in roads like trucks and cars.
**The Air Force also seeks to increase its helicopter fleet to help in these missions. The Navy is building it's own aircraft carrier to patrol the coast, but due to lack of funds the project is currently frozen. Instead, the Navy is investing on expanding the Marine Corps for better border patrol and operations against illegal actions in the Amazon.
*Economy: 
**The brazilian GDP remains stable at around US$ 3B. The economy mostly depends on agropecuary exportations, but investments in education during Bolsonaro's rule increased the country's technology development sector. By 2028, the electronics industry is starting to become relevant, supplying the national industry with brazilian-made modern machinery. The sector is expected to become important within the next decade.
*Diplomacy: Nothing yet.
====Republic of France====
*Backstory: Emmanuel Macron was punished from being president of France due to being a myriad scandal during his presidency years. Édouard Philippe was the former prime minister, and became the president of France now, with Jacques Philippe being chosen by Philippe, his brother to be Prime Minister of the French.
*Government: Is a Semi presidental Republic owned by Édouard Philippe, the new president, and Jacques Philippe, the new prime minister of France. Due to Macron's behavior during is term, he has been impeached by the head of government! The government head is now head of state since head of state is a president always and head of government is the prime minister.
*Military:
*Land troops:  5,000
**Marine Troops: 7,000
**Tanks: 1,500
**Inactive Marine/Land troops: 1,500
**Airplanes:  1,000
**Miscellaneous Vehicles: 1,000
**Elites: 3,000
*Economy: France has high GDP and high GDP per capita, with GDP around $30,000, and GDP per capita around $750. Currently, there is no economic crisis in France since 1980s. Before 1980s ended, France suffered lots of economic problems, which from 1929-1939 was the Great Depression, which hit France's economy hard and ruined the GDP and GDP per capita at that time. 
*'Diplomacy':
**Italy: Do you want to sign a treaty that says that we will stop agressing forever?
**Spain: Idfk if I need to give Navarre and Basque community regions to you!!! I dont wanna give up many regions Imfao!
**Germany: Huh, want to fight russia?
**Egypt: Hey, do you want to make a permanent trade alliance with me?
====Iceland====
*Government: A republic. Eh. And we have the Alþingi.
**Demographics: 356k people 
**Ethnics:
***92.04% Iceland
***3.63% Polish
***4.33% other
*Military
**Fun fact: Iceland has no military.
**Icelandic Coast Goard:
***3 x Patrol vessels
***1 x Fixed wing aircraft
***3 x Helicopters
***2 x Patrol/survey boat
***200 x Officers and men
*Economy
**GDP: 20 billion US$, 56,180 US$ per capita
**Mainly from tourism, fishing, alumnium producing, and stuff
**We also drill oil in the Arctic and sell to other nations, like the United States, and use the money to fund the Valkyrie Protocol (see below)
*Diplomacy:
**Norway, Sweden, Finland & Denmark: I'd like to form a 'Nordic Scientific Pact' between the five of us, which encourages and pushes scientific progress forward, so we can all benefit from better technology.
*Valkyrie Protocol: The Protocol is a plan of construction of underground shelters, powered by geothermal energy is started in Reykjavik, Akureyri and other places. The plan, dubbed the "Valkyrie Protocol" is held at the Alþingi (Icelandic parliament) since early January 2028, and will be activated whenever a catastrophe/dramatic event occurs, like a nuclear war of an epidemic. The shelters are expected to hold at least 500 thousand people over the timespan of at least 60 years to avoid any foreseenable catastrophe. 
====Korea====
*Government : Republic. In response to the outbreak of diseases in Africa, we enact a travel ban to the DRC, Lesotho, and South Africa for 1-2 months. The government decides to research a cure for this pathogen. Reports state that the cure will be finished in 3-9 years.
*Economy : We start investing into the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and African nations such as the DRC, Lesotho, and South Africa. GDP growth is stable at 1.9% Current GDP rises from 1.44 trillion to 1.49 trillion.
*Military
**Ground Forces
***Active troops : 627,500
***Reserve troops : 5,202,250
***Tanks : 2,654
***AFV : 2,660
***SPG : 1,990
***Towed Artillery : 5,374
***MLRS : 214
**Lowering of military age to 17 : In response to the international threats, the Army decides to lower the military age to 17 to add some extra manpower.
**Operation Armored Shield : the Army has ordered 450 K2 tanks, 65 K9 SPGs, 20 M270 MLRS, 50 K21 AFVs.
**Air Force
***Fighters : 406
***Attack : 448
***Transport : 348
***Trainer : 273
***Attack helicopters : 81
**Advanced ROKAF Trainer Program or ARTP : We start bidding for a next generation trainer jet to replace the T-50 trainers.
**Operation Korean Hawk : Orders 100 F-16, 59 F-15K, 30 F-15, 35 F-35, and 48 more Apache Longbow attack helicopters. We also order 25 FA-50.
**Retirement of F-4 and F-5 : the Air Force retires the outdated F-4 and F-5 jets.
**KFJ Program : to compensate for the retired F-4 and F-5, we start creating a fighter jet. Designs will be derived from the F-16, F-35, and the FA-50
**Navy
***Aircraft Carrier : 1
***Frigates : 13
***Destroyers : 12
***Corvettes : 16
***Submarines : 15
***Patrol vessels : 70
***Mine ward are : 11
**Naval Modernization Program : we start equipping our ships with the latest weapons from the US and allies.
**Build Build Program : the Navy Orders 10 more frigates, 12 destroyers, 5 anti-submarine corvettes, and 10 submarines.
*Diplomacy
**Japan : We shall put aside our hatred for each other and form a medical and economic alliance
**U.S. : Can you send 10,000 more troops?
====Sultanate of Oman====
*Government: It is an absolute monarchy witha parliament. Sultan Qaboos is the Sultan of Oman and his health is now failing at the age of 87, leaving major uncertainty on who will be the next Sultan.
**Southern Political Unrest: With Sultan Qaboos becoming ill and his health is fading away in the late 2020s, southern Oman is seeing a spike in demand of a republican government to take place of an old monarchy. Riots in the city of Salalah are also reported on February 2028 and things are going a bit downhill at this point, with Oman pulled into a brink of a civil war due to it's political isolation.
**Era of Political Isolation (mid 2020s-present): Politics is dividing Oman up with international affairs and the Sultan itself in its recent years has increasingly decided to move away from intervening in almost everything (which contradicts a lot of stuff made by Manto) in most relationships, but they remain having a lot of trade with other nations internationally to keep themselves afloat until the start of 2028 where Qaboos decided to announce something really weird during his final years of his life.
**Government Establishes Companies: A bizarre announcement on March is that Sultan Qaboos has decided with the parliament to build and set up multiple companies that would develop military equipment for Oman but most of the plans and concepts for the next five years aren't going into the public for "security purposes" as Qaboos repeated.
**Debate on Military: Sultan Qaboos insists that the military must be ramped up for "security purposes" (once again), believing that the unrest in the south should be dealt with carefully. However some military advisors are against the decision of increasing their personnel due to the risk of the nation being transitioned into a police state over repeated riots in the southern part of Oman but Qaboos is dying, so he did not have a choice.
*Military:
**Military Ramping Project (Act of 1-2028-1): In order to sustain the final wishes of Sultan Qaboo, the parliament had passed the Military Ramping Project, which makes Oman relegalise conscription with a three year draft for every man starting from the age of 18 to 30. The government-established companies will also work for the government to invest heavily in military technology and equipment to improve the quality of the military and also reduce reliance over other nations to import their own weapons and equipment.
*Overall military: (Will do so later)
*Economy: Sultan Qaboos wants self-reliance to the economy of Oman (unexpectedly) and also expand the military on his final years, which is part of an ongoing political isolation.
**Urban Development Program (Act of 1-2028-2): The Urban Development Program established in January 2028 states that the nation of Oman should start investing on better infrastructure, especially towards remote settlements and underdeveloped areas that have been left abandoned for few years. It'll comply to a ten year plan so that it goes all in according to plan, although this was slightly delayed due to ongoing riots.
**Self-Reliance Act (Act of 1-2028-3): Sultan Qaboos and with the parliament insisted that all people should work for something in order to be earned of something.
*Diplomacy: EthanKoenigsberg is a shy person so #MantoFail2.0 (and you know why)
==== Kingdom of Norway ====
* Government: Constitutional Monarchy (King: Harald V)
** With the king getting old (2 years away from the average Norwegian death year), people are getting worried.
* Military:
** Reserve Personnel: 45,000
** Active Personnel: 23,268
* Economy: GDP: 370,000,000,000 USD (370 bil.)
* Events:
** The Ruso-Norwegian Wall
*** We continue on building our wall between us and Russia, but not because of refugees, because of thawing diseases in Siberia being taken over the border into Norway.
* Diplomacy:
** Democratic Republic of the Congo: We will send you 300,000$ in funding for curing ebola.
====United Kingdom====
*Goverment
**Aftermath of the 2027 Elections
***Despite Labour expanding substantially in the last decade, the Tories won substantial support as their coalition government after the elections of 2022 achieved to re-estructure the British economy after a major recession after officially leaving the European Union. With this, the Tories achieved a majority victory in 2027, and need no coalition to govern as they wish.
*Economy
**The economy,Years after the EU: After the UK's exit of the European Union in 2021, investment in the country decreased further, and the British economy saw a recession and further devaluation of the Sterling. After the election of 2022, the Tories established a coalition government with the DUP, and surprisingly enough, their steadfast inner market reforms put the economy out of the recession and back to healthy growth.
**The 2018 Budget : Although mostly normal, the UK's Defence budget on 2018 is 2.3% of the GDP.
*Military
**British Army
***75.000 Regular Army
***30.000 Reserve Army
**RAF
***30.000 Active Personnel
***890 Operational Aircraft
**Royal Navy
***30.000 Regular
**The UK's Power Projection: With the deployment of the HMS Queen Elizabeth and the HMS Prince of Wales, armed with modern F-35s, Britain can now protect it's lands better than anytime before.
**The 2025 Act Finalizes : in 2025, Parliament approved a bill saying that all British troops in non-NATO nations would be withdrawn, including humanitarian aid. This act was criticized by many as selfish, but nevertheless, the troops once abroad are now stationed not in the home islands, but mostly in British overseas territories.
*Diplomacy: The United Kingdom does not have any diplomatic missions for Q1.
====Kingdom of Spain====
*2028 elections: Over the last four years, the Citizens' party has governed the nation in coalition with the conservative People's Party. Their political force was confirmed on March 1st's elections, with Inés Arrimadas (the leader of Citizens') securing a majority once again. In the past decade, Arrimadas had managed to defeat the independentist bloc in Catalonia, earning her huge support across the entire country. Meanwhile, the radical left coalition lead by coalition made huge gains, however, they were still far away from a majority as they refused to negotiate with the more moderate PSOE.
**Results:
***Citizens (C's): 37.51% - 158 seats (+3)
***United We Can (Podemos-IU): 29.88% - 99 seats (+37)
***People's Party (PP): 14.02% - 45 seats (-9)
***Spanish Socialist Laborist Party (PSOE): 12.19% - 37 seats (-25)
***Together for Catalonia (JxCat): 3.27% - 11 seats (+1)
***Catalonian Republican Left (ERC): 0.53% - 0 seats (-7)
***Other parties: 1.76% - 0 seats (*)
***Invalid votes: 0.84%
*Government: Arrimadas' government has taken a more isolationist stance on international affairs (without completely ignoring the EU), advocating for a non-intervention policy. Although it is expected to remain this way, the recent surge of infectious diseases, as well as the actions of our neighboors, are isuess that will need to be deal with.
**Epidemiological alerts: A travel warning is issued for Bolivia, the DRC, South Africa and Lesotho due to the recent surge of outbreaks of infectious diseases within their borders. There are no restrictions for people traveling to South Africa, Bolivia or Lesotho, but high security measures are taken for those travelling to the DRC. People travelling to the DRC are required to get a shot of the Ebolavirus vaccine, and if anyone travelling from the DRC to Spain shows symptons of the disease, they undergo a series of medical tests to make sure they are not infected by Ebola.
**Research and medicine: Although some sectors had urged the government to take action against emergent infectious disease (Ebola, yellow fever and those Siberian viruses), Arrimadas' isolationist stance has resulted in no major actions for now. However, some additional funding is given to medical research centers.
**Terrorism: During the Islamic State crisis in the past decade, a series of policies had been enacted to grant the military additional powers during events considered as "national emergencies". This protocol was known as "the Córdoba plan" and it was criticized back in the day, although the constant threat of islamic terrorist attacks was given as an excuse to keep it (see the Barcelona 2017 attacks). Among other things, the military had also received additional funding, in order to train recruits on how to deal with terrorist threats. Nowadays the plan is still active, but more and more voices are calling for it to end as the threat of terrorism fades. Nevertheless, Arrimadas has decided to keep the status quo for the meantime.
*Military: The military is not expanded.
*Economy: The economy has managed to stabilize to a certain point although there is still an unemployment problem. The government has been looking for ways to solve it, but nothing concrete has been done yet.
*Diplomacy: No relevant diplomacy is done for now.
====Republic of South Africa====
*Government: South Africa is currently a democracy ran by Cyril Ramaphosa of the African National Congress Party which is a Social Democratic Party. The current party
**History: South Africa was in a weird political situation back in 2016/2017 until the ANC National convention happened in January 2018 (it happened late) the reformist bloc of the party emerged victorious from the convention gaining the main spot in the ANC party for the 2019 election, which they eventually won. Under the reformist wing the economy has surged with massive development happening inside the country, with new roads and towns being built with the desert in the north being mostly industrial now. Also under the reformists most political tension has died down as they “United” the party and most other political parties in the country are small.
**Policies
***Combating HIV: While the case in our country is just minor, the government is still worried about its potential growth inside the country. The first action was to start awareness campaigns for people to get checked for HIV and the second was to lower the prices of condoms.
*Military
**Ground Forces
***Military Personal: 297,037
***Tanks: 384
***AFVs: 2,904
***Artillery: 286
**Air-Force
***Fighters: 77
***Helicopters: 43
**Naval Forces
**Frigates: 6
***Submarines: 4
*Economy
**GDP: South Africa has the 23rd largest GDP in the world with around 742b USD.
*Diplomacy
**Democratic Republic of The Congo: We block immigration and refugees from the country with the current Ebola virus going on.
=== 2028 Q2 ===
Mongolia is now a Kazakh ally.
The United States does not respond to the Korean request for 10,000 soldiers as it does not see the need to militarize the region.
Protests occur all over France over the economic state and corruption within the government. In addition, the EU has expelled France from the Eurozone program until their economy recovers.
None of the nations respond to France, due to the fact that the requests are random and have no apparent justification.
Japan reminds Korea that their alliance from the Korean War in 2021 still stands, but agrees to improving relations.
The Kingdom of Norway has been criticised by the Russian government, which calls the Russo-Norwegian wall an unnecessary element that is seen as a diplomatic barrier.
Please be reminded that any attempt to cure a disease would follow the cure path in order to have any effect in the map game.
An antiviral drugs for Ebola is released by WHO and deployed in the DRC. However, it is not particularly successful, only curing 8% of the infected.
==== Kingdom of Norway ====
* Government: Constitutional Monarchy
** King: Haakon VIII
*** Our king, Harald V, has passed. The new king, Haakon VIII, takes his place.
* Military:
** Reserve Personnel: 46,124
** Active Personnel: 23,725
* Economy: GDP: 370,000,000,000 USD (370 bil.)
* Events:
** The Ruso-Norwegian Wall
*** We stop building the wall, since the goals have been fulfilled (2 meters high, across the border).
* Diplomacy:
** Russia: We're not cutting any diplomatic ties with you, and are willing to support you.
** Democratic Republic of the Congo: Since the cure didn't go well, we've decided to work on it in our own country.
====Sultanate of Oman (former) | Omani Republic (post-revolution) ====
*Government
**Death of the Sultan: On 6th May 2028, Sultan Qaboos had officially passed away from natural causes after making his final wishes to begin manufacturing and develop new technologies domestically in Oman rather than relying on other nations to export. This is an extremely ambitious project that Qaboos is looking out for, but after the announcement, the protests and riots from south Oman eventually spread to the whole nation as uncertainty is about to approach Oman for one more month for who will be the successor of the Omani throne.
**Omani Revolution (June 2028): The Omani Revolution took place on June, where many republicans clashed with the government before some sections of the Omani military began to turn over as the government continues to find trouble for a successor. They also forced the parliament to start transitioning Oman into a republican state by mid-June by implementing huge changes to the government constitutionally. It's expected until the end of 2028 that the government will finally settle on what constitution they already had in the works.
**Secularisation Act (Act of 2-2028-1): Quickly the Republic pushed towards secularising all of a person's aspect of life, while Sharia law applied to daily basis is being slowly phased out, which is deem unpopular to many conservative Muslims that exist in Oman while moderate Muslims had partially criticised to condemn some decisions that they were to make.
*Military
**Military Ramping Project: The project continues on even in a post-Sultan Oman.
**State-controlled Company Development Act (Act of 2-2028-2): Oman considers to push for a priority in full development on all tate controlled military companies on specific equipment as part of the ongoing ten year goal set out by Qaboos, although some of his programs were cancelled in some manner, the reason for military expansion didn't.
*Economy: Self-reliance and political isolation had gone too far for Oman and after the revolution, the Republic decided to close borders to some nations that are "at great risk of epidemics" and do nothing else.
**Urban Development Program (2028-ongoing): There were setbacks from developing infrastructure once again due to property damage, with all resources headed to secure their own borders and developing military equipment as part of the ten year plan but improving the infrastructure of Oman would require an economic improval in order to further develop and fund other projects, so the ten year plan didn't actually fail at least.
**Border Control Tightened: Countries that are infected with Ebola, which is only confined to the DRC are closed down effectively although since Oman has little contact with the DRC, it could be easily ignored as a "fad". No funding is dedicated to Ebola at that time.
*Research: Oman is mostly dedicated to military research at this time.
*Diplomacy:
**France: nice meme
==== Korea ====
* Government : Sends 100 doctors and nurses to assist the WHO in the DRC. We provide South Africa approximately $1,000,000,000 for medical supplies, hospital equipment, and rations.
** Economy : We start investing into the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and South Africa. GDP growth is stable at 1.7% Current GDP rises from 1.49 trillion to 1.51 trillion.
** Military
*** Ground Forces
**** Active troops : 2,627,500
**** Reserve troops : 3,202,250
**** Tanks : 3,104
**** AFV : 2,710
**** SPG : 2,055
**** Towed Artillery : 5,374
**** MLRS : 234
*** Activation of 2 million Reserves : the Army decided to increase the number of active troops for more manpower.
*** KMBT 3 Program - the Army needs a new MBT, so the government starts the KMBT 3 Program. It shall be officially called the K3 Tiger. It shall have a 140mm smoothbore cannon, advanced thermal imaging, higher speed, thicker armor, and better endurance against HEAT shells
*** Air Force
**** Fighters : 655
**** Attack : 448
**** Transport : 348
**** Trainer : 273
**** Attack helicopters : 129
*** 5.5 Generation Fighter Program : the Air Force has a need for a 5th Generation fighter. The Air Force High Command decides to Derive designs from the F-16 and F-35.
*** Navy
**** Aircraft Carrier : 1
**** Frigates : 23
**** Destroyers : 24
**** Corvettes : 21
**** Submarines : 25
**** Patrol vessels : 70
**** Mine warfare : 11
** Diplomacy
** China : Want to work together? (Medical purpose)
====Iceland====
*Government: A republic. Eh. And we have the Alþingi.
**Demographics: 360k people 
**Ethnics:
***92.04% Iceland
***3.63% Polish
***4.33% other
*Military
**Fun fact: Iceland has no military.
**Icelandic Coast Goard:
***3 x Patrol vessels
***1 x Fixed wing aircraft
***3 x Helicopters
***2 x Patrol/survey boat
***203 x Officers and men
*Economy
**GDP: 20 billion US$, 56,180 US$ per capita
**Mainly from tourism, fishing, alumnium producing, and stuff
**We also drill oil in the Arctic and sell to other nations, like the United States, and now we are open for foreign oil companies to drill oil if thhey pay us.
*Diplomacy:
**Norway, Sweden, Finland & Denmark: I'd like to form a 'Nordic Scientific Pact' between the five of us, which encourages and pushes scientific progress forward, so we can all benefit from better technology. (sidewinder make event for this)
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**Not much changes. Bolsonaro's approval drops from 61% to 56%, so he asks the people to express their complains through anonymous messages, letters and e-mails. After a month collecting the opinions and discarting spam and troll messages, the government separates the most cited issues:
***Low wages for public teachers
***Too high wages for politicians
***Public hospitals facing lack of equipment
***Increase of urban violence
***Unfulfillment of Bolsonaro's campaign promise of lowering gun control.
**The congress was called for an assembly to solve the issues. So far, the following solutions were accepted:
***Increasing the minimum wage for teachers to five minimum wages.
***Removal of most privileges to politicians (This point met resistance from the congress, but public pressure made them accept)
***Lower taxes to medical supplies for hospitals
***Diminishment of bureocracy to own handguns and slight reduction of their prices.
*Military:
**The Air Force and the Navy, with the newly expanded helicopter fleet and Marine Corps, intensify anti-traffic missions in the Amazon Rainforest. A new gunship helicopter is used for the first time in a small engagement with heavily armed loggers in the state of Tocantins. One marine was injured and three out of six illegal loggers died, and the remaining were arrested. One of the dead was a french citzen fleeing from the chaos in France.
**An infantry battalion is deployed at the state of Amapá to protect the borders and probably restore order in French Guiana, in case the political trumoil escalates to a war and spreads to the region.
*Economy:
**New machinery and basic electronic factories open in Brazil, most going to the South and Southeast region due to the high concentration of qualified manpower.
**New solar usines are built in the centre of the Northeast, since the region is dry and rarely has clouds to disrupt the usine efficiency. The government aims to create jobs and solve the region's poverty caused by the drought.
*Diplomacy:
**Brazil purchases 12 transport helicopters and 3 Eurocopter attack helicopters from France. Despite the trade, the government declared neutrality in France's political crisis.
**Brazilian medics and soldiers go to poor regions of Bolivia to inform local populations about prevention against yellow fever and to vaccine the unvaccined people. The government also sells 300,000 vaccines to Bolivia for its own vaccination campaign.
**The Ministry of Health issues a note requiring travellers from the DRC to show documents proving they're not infected with ebola. Travelling to the country is discouraged, although not forbidden.
**The Navy is looking for foreign funding to finish its aircraft carrier and to purchase a carrier-capable multirole fighter fleet.
====United Kingdom====
*Government
**Public Healthcare institutions are inspected by government officials.
**The Channel Tunnel is closed due to the turmoil in France.
**No new policies are taken by the British government.
*Military
**[same stats as last quarter]
**Due to the turmoil in France, the Guernsey and Jersey islands are reinforced.
**Gibraltar is reinforced.
*Economy
**The fall of fossil energy in the United Kingdom: Shortly before the UK left the European Union, the British government made a huge investment in renewable energy, mostly in the form of wind turbines in the Scottish Highlands. The long-term economic profit has started to take a possitive effect on the cost of British electricity, as the turbines that once caused debt now power the country for way cheaper.
*Diplomacy
**France: All diplomatic missions to France are ceased until the nation stabilizes.
===2028 Q3===
A transition of power occurs in France that is overseen by the UN, EU and NATO. Former President Édouard Philippe is impeached following the corruption scandal invo and his seizure of power. The new President, Jaune Arche, is installed, and promises to lead France out of the pit Philippe threw the nation into.
The media-dubbed "Zalgo Outbreak" is not perceived as actual news in some parts of the world. Critics know it by "What Could Be The Biggest Meme Of All".
Shark attacks increased this month. Weird.
Zalgo sightings, having been called so by the media (again), are mostly prevalent in areas near the Gulf of Mexico, however there has been isolated sightings in Missouri, Jamaica and Panama.
Police are still on the search for Yuri Watney, and encourage residents to come forward if they have information on her whereabouts.
The Nordic Scientific Pact receives the green light from Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Norway has been unresponsive.
Critics in Iceland question the purpose of bunkers.
Media outlets in the US and Mexico publish articles on "the Zalgo Attacks", involving a case on ongoing domestic violence. Video footage of the "Zalgo People", or simply "Zalgo", exhibit what seems to be insanity within them, laughing while "flipping out" (media said it ok?). Some videos showed the Zalgos crying black tears or having black fluid dripping out of their mouths. One instance had a suspected Zalgo looking at the camera down a hallway, oozing black fluid out of her eyes and mouth.
==== Kingdom of Norway ====
* Government: Constitutional Monarchy
** King: Haakon VIII
* Military:
** Reserve Personnel: 47, 000
** Active Personnel: 24,000
* Economy: GDP: 370,000,000,000 USD (370 bil.)
* Events: None
* Diplomacy:
** Iceland: We accept your offer.
====United States of America====
*Government: John Delaney is the current President of the United States since January 2025 and is a Democrat. (Again, I don't know why I keep reelecting Trump as president in 2020 even though he's most likely to lose probably and I have an arbitrary mind)
**Upcoming 2028 Elections: Republican presidential candidate Rob Hughes (totally not a real person because it's ten years from now) began running a populist campaign starting July 2028 to "shut the Zalgo out" by investing heavily in military and imposing curfew and martial law onto the United States. In the polls however, the Republican candidate had gone up significantly as some of the US citizens hearing the news "are becoming more and more sensitive to the event". No-one knows how he obtained it or where did he hear it, but government officials decided to arrest him on October after becoming quite insane in his rally on late October before being suddenly released on the next day coming out clean but his message still continues oddly.
**Censorship: All authorities are issued with an arrest warrant to those who are trying to get their hands on confidential information on the Internet or on any other sources related to the "Zalgo incidents" in the Gulf of Mexico or any isolated cases in the US. Censorship is ramped and agencies such as the CIA began taking down articles that host their websites on US servers or are dependnt on it and thus they would be able to curb the potential panic happening.
**Regarding about pertussis/whooping cough: A batchload of vaccines are sent to those who have the whooping cough, especially in children, numbering hundred thousands in the localised area. Those families who refuse a vaccine for "health reasons" (i.e. allergies to any content inside) are being left behind but controversially those who refuse to be vaccined for "other reasons" are being apprehanded controversially.
*Military
**Intervention: The US military approved by the government began sending out thousands of troops of these alleged sighting, along with agents in covering any event that is sighted and declaring it a hoax to the public to not ease fear. Many police and agents around in southwest US are also questioning where Yuri Watney was including witnesses to friends/family before covering the act as well and not provide information to the whole press (although some had tried to publish something related to this). With unusual rise of shark attacks in the Gulf of Mexico, local authorities in Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi issue shark culling and "kill shots", which is controversial to many animal rights activists and also critical but these unusual attacks must be apprehanded in order for it to come down. While those in the East Coast and West Coast decided to do nothing.
*Economy: Still strong but panics that are incurred by hoaxes have led to a slight dip in stock markets.
*Research: Nothing. Unless you consider the hoax as research for authorities as it is technically but no progress is actually being made.
*Diplomacy: Don't know. In international conditions, many CIA agents ask authorities around Latin America especially the Mexican government to crack down those who publish anything related to the Zalgo incidents and to keep everything secure.
====Korea====
* Government: Elections will be held on 2030. Republic. 
* Economy: We start investing into the Philippines, Vietnam, and South Africa. GDP growth is stable at 1.4% Current GDP rises from $1.51 trillion to 1.53 trillion.
*Military
** Ground Forces
*** Active troops : 2,627,500
*** Reserve troops : 3,202,250
*** Tanks : 3,104
*** AFV : 2,710
*** SPG : 2,055
*** Towed Artillery : 5,374
*** MLRS : 234
*** Mobilization of the military  : the Army begins to plan an invasion of a country. 
*** K3 Tiger Production- Hyundai Rotem has announced production of the first batch of K3 tanks. Unit cost will reach $400-450 million per unit. The Army plans to achieve 250 by the end of the Q3.
** Air Force
*** Fighters : 655
*** Attack : 448
*** Transport : 348
*** Trainer : 273
*** Attack helicopters : 129
*** Mobilization of the Air Force : 350 fighters, 250 attack aircraft, and 60 attack helicopters will be mobilized for the invasion. 100 transport aircraft will also be mobilized.
*** KA Program : A new attack aircraft shall be made. Prototypes will be called the KA-15. It will have the M61 Vulcan, dual rocket pods, 6 air-to-ground missiles, 10 unguided bombs, 4 laser-guided bombs, and armor. Korean Aerospace Industry or KAI will be chosen to produce the aircraft. Unit cost will reach 350 million.
**Navy
*** Aircraft Carrier : 1
*** Frigates : 23
*** Destroyers : 24
*** Corvettes : 21
*** Submarines : 25
*** Patrol vessels : 70
*** Mine warfare : 11
*** Carrier Program : 3 aircraft carriers shall be built. It shall be called the Joseon-class carrier. It will be able to hold 35 fixed-wing aircraft, and 25 helicopters (15 ASW, 10 utility). It will have CIWS systems, anti-ship missiles, and missile defense systems.
*Diplomacy
** Vietnam : Adopt Democratic changes in your government please.
====Russian Federation====
*Russian Recession: Three assassination attempts have been made against President Sergey Neverov, as unemployment continues to rise, as do prices and violent protests. The President and his Prime Minister both resigned, leading to the election of Urvan Andropov.
**April 4, 2028: Oil and gas workers go on strike, ending the country's production.90% of all oil and gas workers participate.
**May 1, 2028: Over 3,000,000 demonstrators march across the country marking International Workers' Day. Riot police crack down hard against the demonstrators, deploying tear gas, blocking roads with armored vehicles, and making over 1,000 arrests.
**May 30, 2028: A third assassination attempt against President Sergey Neverov is made. A firefight breaks out between the would-be assassins and Neverov's security detail. The President is taken to the Central Clinical Hospital of the Presidential Administration, where he is in surgery. Prime Minister Andrey Turchak becomes interim president.
**June 6, 2028: Sergey Neverov resigns as the President of Russia while bedridden in the hospital. Andrey Turchak is the new President of Russia.
**June 8, 2028: Andrey Turchak announces plans to resign as the President of Russia in a speech to the Federal Assembly. He gets booed out of the Assembly, and many protestors call him a "coward" and "traitor". The Federal Assembly has scheduled elections for June 15th.
**June 10, 2028: A large portion of the Russian Duma resign. The United Russia Party loses 231 out of 238 members. The Liberal Democratic Party loses 51 out of 56 members. The Just Russia Party loses 60 out of 64 members. The Communist Party loses 86 out of 92 members. Elections have been pushed back to the 18th to allow the parties to find representatives for the Duma. Protestors become more angry, chanting "the cowards abandoned us!" Molotov cocktails are thrown at police barricades in Moscow and at least three cars are torched and overturned during demonstrations in the city.
**June 19, 2028: Urvan Andrapov becomes the new president. He ran as an independent in the election, but had support from both Russian leftists and rightists due to his lack of partisanship.
**July 5, 2028: President Urvan Andrapov suggests mobilizing the military to deal with unrest.
**August 4, 2028: President Urvan Andropov announces the construction of 20 new submersible transport ships as an anti-piracy measure. Andropov wants to use the project to decrease unemployment.
**August 15, 2028: Federal Assembly announces that military will be deployed to manage civil unrest.
**August 27, 2028: Two police officers are killed in street protests in St. Petersburg. Andropov hints at potentially deploying the military.
**September 2, 2028: The first regular military forces arrive in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Volgograd, and Murmansk, classed as "problem cities" by Andropov.
**September 9, 2028: Police and military open fire on protestors in St. Petersburg, killing 9 and wounding 15 demonstrators. The shots start after a Molotov cocktail lands at a soldier's feet, causing severe severe burns to his legs and feet.
**September 13, 2028: Andropov announces that violence has significantly decreased for the last 3 days.
**September 17, 2028: Andropov announces that the Russian government and several protest groups have agreed on the first draft of a proposal to stop unrest in the wake of a deadly shooting in St. Petersburg that killed 9 and wounding 15 demonstrators.
*Economy: The ruble is slowly rising.
*Military: The military is not expanded.
**Frontline troops: 865,493
**Tanks: 16,291
**Self propelled artillery: 6,109
**Multiple launch rocket system: 4,129
**Aircraft: 3587
**Aircraft carriers: 2
**Destroyers: 14
**Submarines: 62
*Diplomacy
**Norway: Then support me.
**Kazakhstan: We would love to have an alliance. Russia accepts.
==== Iceland ====
* Government: A republic with the Alþingi as our legislature.
** Demographics: 363k people 
** Ethnics:
*** 92.06% Iceland
*** 3.62% Polish
*** 4.32% other
* Military
** Iceland has no military.
** Icelandic Coast Goard:
*** 3 x Patrol vessels
*** 1 x Fixed wing aircraft
*** 3 x Helicopters
*** 2 x Patrol/survey boat
*** 206 x Officers and men
* Economy
** GDP: 20 billion US$, 56,180 US$ per capita
** Mainly from tourism, fishing, alumnium producing, and stuff
** We also drill oil in the Arctic and sell to other nations, like the United States, and now we are open for foreign oil companies to drill oil if they pay us.
* Diplomacy:
** Canada: We would like to buy two frigates.
=== 2028 Q4===
Yuri Watney has been found dead in Las Vegas, with black liquid pouring out of her orifices. Post-mortem analysis indicates is underway, but some suggest she walked all the way to Las Vegas, but do not know her motives. The area she was found in has been cordoned off, but sightings of the Zalgo rise in The Strip.
A Jamaican ship has been quarantined in off the Panama Canal after reporting symptoms of yellow fever amongst the crew.
A media leak in Mexico results in multiple Zalgo sightings being published online, which go viral in a matter of days. Creepypasta fans rejoice.
Zalgo sightings in Canada now, as well as Central America. An arbitrary case came up in South Africa, but it was confirmed to be a case of yellow fever.
==== Norway ====
* Government: Constitutional Monarchy
** King: Haakon VIII
* Population: 6 million
* Military:
** Active Personnel: 26,000.
** Reserve Personnel: 47,000
* Economy:
** GDP: 370.8 billion $ (71,890$ per capita)
** Mainly from tourism, fishing and agriculture.
* Events: 
** Diplomatic Ties:
** We do all diplomatic actions with infected countries (Mexico, Canada, Cental American countries) from afar (through technology), to keep our population safe from the Zalgos.
* Diplomacy:
** Iceland: We've already been drilling here before you, do we still have to pay you?
====Korea====
* Government: Republic. The government bans all travel from and to Mexico, the United States, and Central America. All tourists in the U.S. are called back. Every American, Mexican, or Canadian will be kept under a health camp. Quarantine zones shall be set up.
** Economy: We start investing into the Philippines, Vietnam, and South Africa. GDP growth is stable at 2.1% Current GDP rises from $1.53 trillion to 1.59 trillion.
** Military
** Ground Forces
** Active troops : 2,627,500
** Reserve troops : 3,202,250
** Tanks : 3,354
** AFV : 2,710
** SPG : 2,055
** Towed Artillery : 5,374
** MLRS : 234
Quarantine : The military has been ordered to strictly guard each airport and ports from any people that show signs of being a “Zalgo”. They are to be shot on sight.
** Air Force
** Fighters : 655
** Attack : 448
** Transport : 348
** Trainer : 273
** Attack helicopters : 129
Indigenous Attack Helicopter Program or IAHP : The Air Force shall achieve attack helicopters by the new year. Requirements included a troop capacity of 10, dual 10-rocket pods, a nose gun, 2 anti-tank missile launchers, and a speed of 76 kph. Aerial Patrols : the Air Force has been ordered to patrol our borders for any kind of refugee boat or plane. They are to be shot down.
** Navy
** Aircraft Carrier : 1
** Frigates : 23
** Destroyers : 24
** Corvettes : 21
** Submarines : 25
** Patrol vessels : 70
** Mine warfare : 11
Armed Patrol Program : All patrol boats shall be armed with a Spike Missile launcher, 2 torpedo launchers, 3 heavy machine guns, and advanced sensors.
** Diplomacy
** North America : Can you handle the “Zalgo” thing? If not, we will cut all ties with you.
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**The Zalgo stories start to create fear and panic among some people. The president, Jair Bolsonaro, makes a public statement telling people everything is under control, and that it poses no threat to Brazil or anyone else in the world, as it's most likely a joke being taken too far.
*Military:
**The Armed Forces conduce a joint exercise in the coast of the state of Pará, simulating a large scale guerrilla invasion in the Amazon Rainforest based on the Operation Traíra (which took place in 1991).
**Navy Admiral Gregório Constantino travels to the US, along with other high-ranking officers, to debate the expansion of the brazilian navy and military partnerships.
*Economy:
**The technology development sector continues to grow. Highly educated adults from other south american nations start to see opportunities in Brazil. The government incentivates such attitudes, seeking to grow the sector even more.
*Diplomacy:
**Travellers from DRC, Republic of Congo, Gabon and Zambia must present documents proving they're not infected with ebola before entering the country.
**Diplomats travel to USA along with Admiral Constantino to auxiliate in the negotiations.
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Hello. Doesn't matter who I am. Since you're allowed to read this, I assume you know what's going on and it's pointless to introduce the situation. I am here to inform you that what you read above is only half of the truth.
The government does not believe it's a joke that went too far. Bolsonaro said it to stop the panic. All the powerful men and women that command this nation know the Zalgos are real. And you know too. After all, you must be a member of the Blue Amazon Project. *Giggles* That's a stupid name, but there's not much we can do. We have to hide the true purpose of the Project.
That brings me to the other point. That exercise in the Amazon is an excuse for us to understand how capable of waging war our miltary is. For now, we know the Zalgos are aggressive and different from everything we've seen before. We don't know how the situation will develop, so we need to be ready for anything. Literally anything.
The meeting in the US is not meant to expand the navy or any other bullshit they've told you. Nobody here cares about that stupid aircraft carrier anymore. What we want in the United States is to understand the Zalgos. *Louder tone* I mean, those things first appeared in New Mexico, now there are cases in Las Vegas, Mexico... How many new suspected instances appeared in just a couple months? Two thousand? Three? Four? How long until they come South? *Pause, followed by inaudible whispers* I'm sorry for that. I lost control.
We are meeting with the americans in charge of the case to study and offer our help. We got doctors and scientists, we want to contribute. We also want to take a closer look at the Zalgos and understand their behavior, see if we can fix the contaminated people or, if it doesn't work and they reach our borders, prepare a military plan to eliminate them. No one wants to do the last part. But, as I said earlier, we must be prepared for anything.
So yes, the naval expansion is just an excuse to send our teams to the US and to liberate budget to study the Zalgos. Still, we're not sure if the americans will want our help. We're not sure about ANYTHING! What those things are, how they work... Or if they will ever pose a threat to Brazil. They're too weird to be predictable. I hope our visit to Uncle Sam make them look less weird. Or, at least, help to make them look less weird.
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====United States of America====
*Government
**2028 Presidential Elections: Rob Hughes was elected as president in a surprising move, defeating Democratic Delaney from getting his second term. With the rising unpopularity of Delaney due to rumours of cracking down dissidents created by journalists and whistleblowers that have tried to expose the sightings in the United States or any other location classified by the government and many organisations, especially with US citizens that are journalists in Latin America (whom if they return they might suffer consequences if their report was ), they believe Republican presidential candidate Hughes would be able to stop cracking down and pushing for censorship of certain articles found, along with the confession that the government is up to something beyond covering up. (President-elect Hughes will be a big role next turn)
**Censorship: Censorship goes hard.
**Crackdown in Vegas: Three days after Delanley signed a secret order on creating the Zombie Crackdown Personnel (ZCP), the ZCP mission in Las Vegas consists of an estimated few dozens of military personnel had demanded all residents and tourists in that area to stay out of the Las Vegas Strip, thus closing all casinos for about a week for "security purposes" or they'll be arrested for "treason". Secretly they decided to sweep every evidence that can be found while disposing Yuri Watney's body into a contained room in a confidential location, but a remote one of the United States by truck at morning, concealed off from any civilian except for higher government officials (e.g. the POTUS and some approved memebrs). While the properties of black blood is still unknown, it is thought that she would likely be having a neural surge after dying all of a sudden. After everything's "done" investigating the death of Yuri Watney, the casinos were finally reopened a week after with little evidence that this event might've happened. Someone is coming...
**A threat of blocking articles: On election night, the United States' government ordered all internet service providers to block articles of all websites that are related to the Zalgo attacks and CIA hackers to also take down articles that deem that promotes that the so-called Zalgo were real, leaving only articles that perpetrate the Zalgo attacks as a hoax and debunked, especially by emphasising articles of the South African case as "real yellow fever cases". But American users still have the ability of using a virtual private network (VPN) to bypass the blocking as the media brought many Americans to use VPN more than ever due to the interest of these sightings and attacks that are happening and there is so far no law regulating the use of VPNs or banned.
*Military
**Intervention: As sighting rapidly increased, many of the suspected beings within the United States showing similar signs that are described on the Internet and those classified by WHO are being arrested and never to be seen again. They even tried to cover it up. Many are calling the administration of Delaney recently "to be more harmful than his first term", his approval rates slip quickly and now they voted for Rob Hughes to tell the "big truth" in what he claims to be leaking files for the public and press to finally know and flush out the big lies being sowed for months since these sightings become even more common. For the incident where Yuri Watney dies in las Vegas, see Crackdown in Vegas.
**Creation of the Zombie Crackdown Personnel (ZCP): In response, President Delaney on 21st November 2028 as one of his last significant executive orders secretly signed an order to establish the ZCP, which functions as a black operation and somewhat similar to the fictitious SCP organisation except more specialised towards the Zalgo. Their goals are to rid of any evidence of any sighting that is reported by mainstream media before it becomes viral by tapping into every phone call or camera with similar traits as most Zalgo attacks have.
*Economy: Fears of the US economy sliding began to grow with a prolonged shutdown of some of the notable casinos and intensive "suspecting funding" to something the public doesn't know. The economy became stagnant as a result after recovering slowly from the early 2020s economic crisis.
*Research: With Yuri Watney's body being underway being studied, along with samples of black liquid (to see if it's combustible to being actually infectious) in secret in a contained room after cleanup was taken care of, the United States would be able to discover potentially something bigger through thorough tests.
*Diplomacy
**Brazil: We'll agree to let your own team to get cases of these Zalgos that were documented before.
====Russian Federation====
*Russian Recession / Revolution: - Chaos reigns.
**October 18, 2028 - President Andropov calls for multilateral conference between Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France, Great Britain, and the United States, as well as local Crimean leaders, to discuss the status of the Crimean Peninsula.
**October 21, 2028 - State Duma blocks President Andropov's request to initiate multilateral conference on the status of the Crimean Peninsula
**October 31, 2028 - Autumn festival in Moscow is heavily policed out of fear of riots.
**November 18, 2028 - President Andropov calls for negotiations between Ukraine, Russia, and pro-Russians in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
**November 23, 2028 - State Duma blocks President Andropov's request to initiate multinational talks over the issue of Novorossiya.
**November 24, 2028 - President meets fierce resistance from State Duma. Representatives from every party except A Just Russia accuse Andropov of attempting to abandon the ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine. When Andropov himself tries to speak, he is frequently cut off by booing and jeering from the assembled representatives. Andropov condemns the Duma for "obstructing the cause of peace". Andropov and a representative from the Liberal Democratic Party enter a shouting match and nearly started a fight.
**November 27, 2028 - 267 members of the State Duma sign a declaration that proclaims their refusal to vote in favour of any international agreement or treaty regarding the status of Novorossiya.
**November 30, 2028 - Gennady Zyuganov, the leader of the Communist Party, is assassinated in his sleep.
**December 1, 2028 - At least 752 people are arrested while commemorating the death of Gennady Zyuganov.
**December 3, 2028 - President Andropov spends 4 hours in a heated argument with members of the State Duma over his submersible freighter initiative.
**December 5, 2028 - Andropov gives a speech today to a 20,000-strong crowd of Russian citizens in Moscow criticizing the State Duma, calling them "every bit the menace to peace that the fascists were."
**December 6, 2028 - A resolution is passed by the State Duma, condemning remarks made by President Andropov.
**December 9, 2028 - Shipyard workers consider a strike. However, it is narrowly avoided following an agreement with the government that provides better hours and increased personnel assigned to the work sites.
**December 15, 2028 - Journalists discover that at least 20 leaders of the would-be shipyard strike have financial ties to the People's Socialist Council, a rising protest group that notably rejected the peace agreement between the Russian government and various protest movements.
**December 17, 2028 - Over one and a half million people take part in a march in the Russian capital of Moscow and two million in St. Petersburg as a memorial for the 9 killed and 15 injured exactly 3 months ago.
**December 22, 2028 - President Urvan Andropov is currently the individual who is the least popular among the Russian people, according to a poll. The poll, which received 5,472 responses, showed that 49 percent of respondents answered with "President Andropov" to the question "what major public figure do you have the least positive perception of?", with Adolf Hitler following in second place with 47 percent. The poll consisted entirely of open-ended questions, which means that respondents were permitted to add their own answers without prompting. The stated reasons for those who answered the poll with Andropov as their choice was largely based on the President's failure to fix the country's stagnating economy and a perceived weakness in foreign policy.
**December 26, 2028 - 74 percent of respondents to a poll feel that their quality of life was better in the Soviet Union than the present day. 68 percent said that they feel they would be in a better position if the Soviet Union still existed today, and 63 percent said that they would see a reestablishment of the USSR as a positive event.
**December 30, 2028
***11:27 PM - Gunfire is reported at the Kremlin in Moscow.
***11:38 PM - Large crowds of heavily-armed civilians gather in areas all around Moscow.
***11:49 PM - The headquarters of the Moscow Police Department is attacked and captured by armed gunmen. These forces are affiliated with the groups assembling throughout the city.
***11:55 PM - Moscow police engage in firefights against armed gunmen who are attempting an insurrection against the Russian government.
***11:59 PM - Gunfire is exchanged by security forces and rebel insurrectionists inside the walls of the Moscow Kremlin.
**December 31, 2028
***12:08 AM - A flight of 8 helicopters is spotted over Moscow.
***12:15 AM - Moscow’s police force is in a state of total disarray, struggling to contain what is a rapidly growing armed rebellion.
***12:19 AM - Rebel forces take complete control of the Moscow Kremlin.
***12:32 AM - A lone helicopter lands at Spasskaya Tower, dispatching a team of Spetsnaz special forces soldiers into the Moscow Kremlin.
***12:38 AM - Spetsnaz troops are fighting against rebel forces occupying the Moscow Kremlin.
***12:48 AM - The Presidential Security Service of Russia has stated that the whereabouts of President Urvan Andropov are currently unknown. The agents assigned to Andropov's personal protection are also unaccounted for. It is suspected that the president is thus either dead or in hiding somewhere in the Kremlin.
***1:07 AM - A broadcast on the Moscow emergency radio channel, from the city’s chief of police, calls for a general surrender by the police to the rebels attempting to seize the city in order to “minimize casualties”.
***4:29 AM - A video is released online by the Moscow rebels, depicting the execution of President Urvan Andropov. It depicts several rebels, one of which appears to be People’s Socialist Council leader Vladimir Sopov, interrogating the president, who is being held down by rebels and kneeling with a flashlight being shone in his face, before shooting and killing him.
****[Rebel]: We, the people’s army of Russia, have taken this tyrant to be our prisoner pending his trial. Prisoner, identify yourself!
****[Andropov]: Get off me, get off me! [struggles]
****[A second rebel hits Andropov with the butt of a rifle repeatedly, in the face, chest, and stomach for over a minute.]
****[Rebel]: Identify yourself!
****[Andropov]: I will say nothing! I’m not saying anything!
****[Andropov is beaten with the rifle butt again for approximately one minute.]
****[Rebel]: We won’t wait all night, tell us who you are!
****[Andropov, slowly and spitefully]: President Urvan Andropov of the Russian Federation.
****[Rebel]: Former President Urvan Andropov, you are found guilty of the oppression of the people of Russia, of the theft of their wages, of the exploitation of their labour, and to be complicit in the murder of the victims of the September 9 massacre. You are hereby sentenced to death, to be carried out immediately.
****[Another rebel, believed to be Sopov, shoots Andropov in the back of the head once with his rifle. The president falls over, clearly dead. The video ends.]
***7:55 AM - Moscow is completely under the control of rebel forces.
***10:50 AM - The flag of the Russian Federation flying over the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow has been taken down. It has been replaced with the flag of the Soviet Union.
***10:52 AM - The rebel forces declare a “New Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic”.
***5:52 PM - Groups of armed citizens are assembling in Russia’s “problem cities”.
***9:44 PM - Russian Army and National Guard soldiers are dispatched to cities hosting assemblies of rebel forces.
***10:30 PM - The soldiers deployed to the cities in rebellion against the government are holding their fire.
***11:38 PM - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Dorokhin is been sworn in as the interim President of Russia.
***11:58 PM - Communist rebels assembling across Russia are showing some degree of restraint
*Economy: The ruble has fluctuated and the economy is still stagnant.
*Military: The military is not expanded.
**Frontline troops: 865,493
**Tanks: 16,291
**Self propelled artillery: 6,109
**Multiple launch rocket system: 4,129
**Aircraft: 3587
**Aircraft carriers: 2
**Destroyers: 14
**Submarines: 62
*Diplomacy
**Kazakhstan: HELP.
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===2029===
===2029 Q1===
Korea is now ranked one of the most xenophobic nation, along with one of the highest levels of military growth. Many suggest Korea is planning something, but the citizens themselves are becoming suspicious of the government. Activist movements call for Korea to stop treating every person coming from America like a plague victim, while pressure stemming from the United States, Canada and Mexico themselves lead to a lack of trade between those nations.
Many nations are condemned for "straying away" from the North American nations.
Several nations in Europe and Central Asia become wary of the resurgence of the USSR. China fears a similar revolution to reinstate Maoism.
Protests occur in East Russian cities such as Vladivostok against the new government.
Zalgo sightings along the West Coast, mostly in forests at night.
Lone Zalgo sightings have been documented in Panama and Venezuela, before being taken off the internet.
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Credentials accepted.
UNSC Council 2029 Q1 Meeting (Public Documentation SC/322)
President: The 2019 Q1 United Nations Security Council Meeting is now in session. Member states wishing to speak now have the floor.
United States: The United States, the main victim of the Zalgo events, would like to point out that this is not a potential terrorist scare or dangerous trend. We have located the body of Yuri Watney, and performed a post-mortem analysis. There is plenty of evidence to suggest this may be the source of these Zalgo events. Steps will be taken to ensure safety and avoid the situation from leaking out and causing a panic. It should be worth noting that in the report it suggested a foreign contaminant or pathogen may have been responsible for the death of Watney, and our researchers will be looking into the matter.
Russia: As a representative of Russia, the delegate feels as a separate committee should be created to settle this Zalgo scare, and perhaps the council can focus on the more pertinent issue of the crisis in Russia instead. The Zalgo events are most likely pure coincidence, amplified by paranoia and the spread of fake news. I repeat, Russia has no immediate interest in the so-called “Zalgo Crisis” and would very much prefer the Security Council focus on more serious matters.
France: The representative of France would be in agreement with the statement made by the Russian representative, however would like to point out that most problems may seem small at first before growing into something dangerous. France supports any and all solutions that may present themselves, provided they are ethical and do not lead to a larger threat. As stated earlier by the United States, should the Zalgo events be caused by a pathogenic or contaminant source, it is all the more important to focus on the matter.
United Kingdom: The United Kingdom is in full agreement with the United States, in the sense that the situation should be kept as hidden as possible, as to not cause panic or catalyse the spread of fake news. However, the United Kingdom cannot deny the fact that the crisis taking place in Russia should be put aside to discuss about the Zalgo.
PRC: The People’s Republic of China would very much like to extend their assistance into the investigation of the Zalgo events. It is clearly something that is beyond any artificially induced event, and we have not seen anything like it. As such, China looks favourably towards identifying and coming up with a solution to the Zalgo Crisis, while limiting the spread of information.
Brazil: The nation of Brazil has already laid out plans to combat the Zalgo Crisis, which is to limit the spread of news regarding the Zalgo and keep it to a minimum while research on the Zalgo is done. As stated earlier by China, the Zalgo Crisis is an unprecedented circumstance to the nations of the world, and there is no certain way of identifying the early stages of the Zalgo. As such, research is crucial if we are to come to a solution.
Argentina: The representative of Argentina would like to remind the council that there is no certain answer to what’s causing the Zalgo Crisis, and as such it being a pathogenic event remains a possibility. We must not narrow our focus down into one field before realising it was the wrong one. On the other hand, control on the media would raise questions, and so must be done with good reason.
Oman: The representative of Oman is in full agreement with the United States as well, on the subject of limiting the leakage of Zalgo-related information. It would be in every nation’s best interest to prevent widespread panic, as well as maintain the situation to be able to remain in control, lest a zombie scenario comes up as a result.
Thailand: The representative of Thailand would look favourably upon the formation of an international cooperative effort to identify and come up with a solution for the Zalgo Crisis as soon as possible, most likely headed by the WHO or any other international NGO. Perhaps a separate committee could be founded to combat the spread of information related to the Zalgo, as well as any fake news regarding the outbreaks.
Romania: The representative of Romania would like to remind the council that the Zalgo is not contained. We have sightings all over North America, and it would be most optimal to have it not reach the rest of the world. As stated by Brazil earlier, the key to containing the spread of the Zalgo lies within understanding what causes it and how, which requires observation of the Zalgo.
Germany: The representative of Germany would like to contribute towards an investigation into the matter to fully understand and identify the severity and background of the matter. If the Zalgo is caused by a pathogen or contaminant, then we must contain it before it spreads. We’ve all seen the video clips of the Zalgo as well as their disturbing qualities, and it would be in every nation’s best interest to avoid a crisis on a larger scale. Germany suggests a pathological approach to the Zalgo Crisis, and come up with a contingency plan as soon as possible if a zombie scenario repeats itself, given the current situation.
Portugal: The representative of Portugal echoes the sentiments of the representative of Germany, where a contingency plan should be created. We do not know the full extent of the Zalgo Crisis, as we only have information from sightings or video clips. The representative of Portugal suggests an investigative body to identify Zalgo cases as early on as possible and gather usable information simultaneously.
South Africa: The representative of South Africa is in agreement with most of the member states in this council, however would like to emphasise that while the Zalgo is indeed something that cannot be overlooked, neither can be the situation in South Africa and Lesotho, specifically the outbreak of HIV. While coming up with a solution to the Zalgo Crisis is in the best interests of every nation here, the resolution of the HIV outbreak is something that cannot be overlooked either, being in South Africa and Lesotho’s best interests.
Algeria: The representative of Algeria is in agreement with the statement made by the representative of South Africa on the subject that other outbreaks cannot be ignored. While the Zalgo Crisis itself is a potentially severe event, outbreaks of diseases in Africa and South America are as equally as important as the Crisis itself is. However, Algeria supports there formation of an international effort to combat the Crisis as suggested by Thailand.
Kenya: The representative of Kenya is in agreement with the plans for the identification of the Zalgo source, and containing it. As a nation with firsthand experience with outbreaks, Kenya could provide assistance with containing another Zalgo outbreak when it happens.
----====Norway====
* Government: Constitutional Monarchy
** King: Haakon VIII
* Population: 6 million
* Military:
** Active Personnel: 26,500. (2,000 in Russia)
** Reserve Personnel: 47,000
* Economy:
** GDP: 370.8 billion $ (71,890$ per capita)
** Mainly from tourism, fishing and agriculture.
* Events: 
** Diplomatic Ties:
** We do all diplomatic actions with infected countries from afar (through technology), to keep our population safe from the Zalgos.
** Research: We start researching the disease, hoping to find its origin.
* Diplomacy:
** Russia: We've sent you 2,000 troops to fight against the rebels.
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**Jair Bolsonaro's approval slowly goes up again, as the quality healthcare and public security increases, and so does the number of handguns sold to the population.
**Although more people own firearms, legally purchasing one still requires documentation on mental stability, mandatory shooting and gun safety courses and a limited number of rounds per person. Since the rearming policy was implemented, criminality declined and keeps declining.
*Military:
**The military exercise in Pará is successful to test how capable of waging war combating guerrillas the Armed Forces are. Improvements were proven necessary in regular armies, but Special Operation Forces were on shape.
**The meeting in the US to discuss the expansion of the Navy was successful, but the results were not said to the public.
*Economy:
**Exportation of brazilian industrial machinery begins. The main purchasers are Mercosur members.
**A new nuclear powerplant is inaugurated in the Marajó Island, aiming to end the exploitation of the region's hydropower potential, as it has negative effects on the nature and native peoples.
*Diplomacy:
**The requirements continue for travellers from countries affected by the Ebola outbreak.
**The actions from Norway and Korea about the so-called Zalgos hoaxes are "seemed as unnecessary".
**About the crisis in Russia, the Ministry of Foreign Relations asks for "peaceful negotiations between both sides", and stated that "we're hoping for the best for the russian population". Still, no intervention was announced, following the brazilian tradition of neutrality in international conflicts.
*Blue Amazon Project
**The BAP is a covert name for our secret operation to deal with the Zalgos.
**USA agreed to allow brazilian scientists in the Zalgo research. Our best scientists in the health area are tested for their capacity of keeping secrets and are sent to the US. The current budget is around 800 million, but some BAP members want us to "spare no expenses".
**The Zalgo sightings in Panama and Venezuela increase our concern. Our intelligence saves all the data about said sightings before its deletion and analyze them carefully.
***The case in Venezuela was found to take place close to the sea in Macaraibo. More investigation on the footage allowed identification of the victim. A COpEsp unit is dispatched to the area in the dead of night to capture the Zalgo alive. However, he is found dead in his house. His wife and son are nowhere to be seen. The body is taken in a sealed HAZMAT container and sent to an improvised, but under expansion, classified research base in the Amazon. No personnel involved reported to have had direct contact with the body.
***Attempts to identify the case in Panama were fruitless. Representants were sent to debate the issue with the Panama government.
**Due to the worrisome cases of Zalgo in Central and South America, Special Forces personnel disguised as police officers are stationed in:
***Roads that connect Northern Brazil to other countries.
***Airport check-ins.
***They are to stop and arrest any person showing signals of Zalgo contamination. The person must be sedated and taken to the research base without fuss.
***Still, nobody was yet detected with Zalgo by these means. Yet.
====Korea====
**Government: Republic. Elections will be held next year. The major political ideologies in the elections are Federalism, socialism, and democratic socialism. The government decides to lift the travel ban for the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. A new travel ban is enacted on the Central American countries. It will be lifted on 2030.
**Economy: We start investing into the Philippines, Vietnam, and South Africa. GDP growth is stable at 1.5% Current GDP rises from $1.59 trillion to 1.62 trillion.
**Military
*     Ground Forces
*     Active troops : 2,627,500
*     Reserve troops : 3,202,250
*     Tanks : 3,364
*     AFV : 2,710
*     SPG : 2,055
*     Towed Artillery : 5,374
*     MLRS : 234
Operational K3 Tanks : The first batch of 10 K3 tanks have been tested and brought into service. The military lifts the order to 500 tanks.
*     Air Force
*     Fighters : 655
*     Attack : 448
*     Transport : 348
*     Trainer : 273
*     Attack helicopters : 129
Interception of Central American Airliners : All aircraft from Central America will now be intercepted and identified. They will be sent to special airports with quarantines. Some airliners from North America will also be intercepted.
*     Navy
*     Aircraft Carrier : 1
*     Frigates : 23
*     Destroyers : 24
*     Corvettes : 21
*     Submarines : 25
*     Patrol vessels : 70
*     Mine warfare : 11
Joint Naval-Air Force Exercise : To prepare for any Zalgo outbreaks or any refugee boats with Zalgos, the Air Force and Navy conduct a joint operation involving the destruction of any type of transportation for refugees.
*Diplomacy
*     Russia : We would like to send 1,000 volunteers to help with your riots.
*     U.N. : We need to send a peacekeeping force to Russia.
====Republic of Kazakhstan====
*Kazakh Recession: 
**January 1st, 2029: Protests start in Astana and Almaty following the communist coup in Russia. It is reported that over 1,000 people in Astana and over 3,000 in Almaty have been counted.
**January 2nd, 2029: The amount of protesters enlarges, with 10,000 people in Astana protesting.
**January 7th, 2029: Huge crowds of people attack the Almaty city mayor's office. They throw Molotov cocktails through the windows of the office, resulting in several heavy injuries of town hall officials.
**January 9th, 2029: Over 100,000 people march through the streets of Astana, waving with red flags and shouting: 'All power to the Soviets!'. 
**January 14th, 2029: 500,000 protesters march through Almaty, attempting to occupy the city hall, but retreat as the police charges. The police charge leaves 100 people injured and 366 arrested.
**January 17th, 2029: President Peruashev signs a law outlawing further protests, by announcing a state of emergency. After that, 7 ministers leave the government, heavily protesting against the state of emergency.
**January 21st, 2029: After relative calmness in the days since the signing of the state of emergency law, President Peruashev announces negotiations with several communist factions and labor unions.
**January 24th, 2029: The negotiations between the government an the communist officially start. It is predicted that the negotiators will come to an agreement soon.
**January 29th, 2029: The police fires at protesters in Aral, leaving 20 dead and 29 injured. After the news of the incident, protests against the action start again.
**January 31st, 2029: The military fires at protesters near Ak Orda Presidential Palace in Astana, killing 9 and wounding 33.
**February 1st, 2029: Protests continue all over the country.
**February 4th, 2029: The negotiations are halted and several communists factions are outlawed. 
**February 5th, 2029: The police attempts to arrest Akzol Albanafilev, the leader of the Kazakh communist party, but gets halted by huge crowds of people. Albanafilev manages to escape.
**February 8th, 2029: The Atyrau city hall gets stormed, and protesters declare the Ural Socialist Soviet Republic. 
**February 9th, 2029: Akzol Albanafilev arrives in Atyrau to be sworn in as the leader of the communist nation.
**February 20th, 2029: Oral is taken by the rebels.
**March 1st, 2029: The Kazakh army starts a huge operation against the separatist republic. 
**March 2nd, 2029: Oral is captured by the pro-government forces.
**March 9th, 2029: Atyrau is captured. Akzol Albanafilev is arrested, 90,000 rebels are killed and about 50,000 captured.
**March 11th, 2029: Rebel resistance is fully eliminated.
**March 14th, 2029: President Peruashev announces that every protest will be smothered by the military. 
**March 15th, 2029: Protests in Almaty and other cities end, however, there are still about 3,000 protesters in Astana.
**March 16th, 2029: Police starts arresting leaders of communist factions and labor unions.
**March 20th, 2029: The government states the situation is 'under control'.
**March 25th, 2029: President Peruashev announces that there is a possibility early elections will be held.
**March 29th, 2029: The government announces a referendum over a new constitution incresing the presidential power
**April 1st, 2029: Peruashev announces a constitution referendum for May 18th and legislative elections for May 23rd.
**April 10th, 2029: All communist factions are forbidden.
**April 19th, 2029: Opinion polls show 53% speaking out against increased presidential power, and 45% saying surely not to vote Ak Zhol Party.
**April 21st, 2029: Presidential approval rate falls beneath 45%, with 56% disapproving the presient's job.
**April 25th, 2029: Peruashev announces a meeting between representatives of Britain, Germany, China and Kazakhstan on Russia.
**April 26th, 2029: Peruashev visits Vladivostok and promises to support the 'democratic people of Russia' against 'any threat'
*April 30th, 2029:
**11:20 PM: Shots are fired in Astana.
**11:29 PM: A huge armed crowd attacks the Astana police headquarters.
**11:55 PM: The ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Finances are under occupation
**11:59 PM: Ten helicopters are reported over Ak Orda Presidential Palace
*Military:
*Economy: Recovering from the January-March Kazakh Recession.
*Diplomacy:
**Russia: No, you help!
====United States of America====
*Government
**Inauguration of Robert Hughes: Robert "Rob" Hughes is inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States and is allegiant to the Republican Party. Many fear initially that he'll be a repeat of Donald Trump's activities again as he was starting up intending to "bring the real truth about the coverup" in his campaign promise that helped him defeat Delaney in the 2028 elections. So far, it seems that he isn't doing much to anything or so in private.
**Gun Law: President Hughes believes that gun owners should be protected by law in some extent and even relax some laws at a federal scale. He believes that almost every household should own a gun and be protected "at all costs from any harm such as terrorists". Thus at early 2029, gun sales and laws were being relaxed even in states that have restricted the selling of firearms, however in return, crime rates have increased so Hughes decided that those who are accused or proven guilty of murder or conducted mass shooting before will be barred from having a licence in March, with much of the Republican-dominant Congress approving it. Democrats speculate that the Republicans are trying to rearm the state due to the Zalgo threat as supported by Hughes' campaign promises back in 2028.
**Censorship: Still the same but that could change when Hughes had started to raise doubt in the Delaney-era censorship on the Zalgo-related attacks or sightings.
**Attempting to sign a public release of classified files: On 8th March 2029, Rob Hughes tried to sign Executive Order #14530 which is meant to release the truth of Zalgos but was immediately blocked secretly by the rest of his government (Republicans and Democrats together in an unlikely decision to stop it from getting out to the public), even widely being condemned by high ranking military officials. It seems that Hughes isn't giving up on his approval rating and he believes that the world needs to know somehow, even the most trustworthy media, so he turned towards organisations and people willing to distribute documents on 27th March to find alternative ways of getting information out to the public as promised.
***The following transcript is a tape excerpt between some Wikileaks members and President Hughes in a classified location which was kept behind the government:
****ROBERT HUGHES: Chrisopher, do you believe that there's something beyond that you don't know but it's actually there? Such as in Zalgos?
****CHRISTOPHER: I heard about the rumours and sightings before they're taken off.
****ROBERT HUGHES: I actually have few copies, let me get them out.
****[Sound of paper being taken out]
****CHRISTOPHER: Is this some sort of trick, Mr. President? You're out of office unusually.
****ROBERT HUGHES: I told the White House that I need to take a day off because of personal issues but I took time to convince the CIA to give me some files.
****CHRISTOPHER: That's all you got?
****ROBERT HUGHES: Yeah, that's all I've got. I have to go right now, or perhaps authorities will catch me. Keep all of these copies I've obtained. Don't be afraid to tell the truth.
****[tape concludes]
***The following transcript is another excerpt between government officials and President Hughes in the White House:
****[REDACTED]: Mr. President, what have you done to our secret files that we're not supposed to tell to the public?
****ROBERT HUGHES: The public needs to know something at least instead of pulling back and procrastinate!
****[REDACTED]: You've basically doomed the world after providing copies of classified material to a non-approved official. Have you gone insane?
****ROBERT HUGHES: I'm not insane. Stop telling me that.
****[REDACTED]: Wait until you see everyone on the streets yelling the end is coming. Then you'll regret abusing your powers to extract those files.
**Cases in the West Coast: Even under Hughes' administration, the Zalgo cases must be dealt with in multiple cases as they might also begin a panic according to military officials. The ZCP which is responsible for covering up Las Vegas' death of Yuri Watney is also aiming to take any sightings or attacks into quarantine and procedually remove any evidence of a Zalgo attack around the area of Washington, Oregon and California (moving them into the same confidential location). It wasn't disbanded by the President but their activities are being risked after tapes were being shown and listened to high government and military officials. They strongly condemn any possible leakings.
*Military
**Intervention: Most intervention cases related to the Zalgo are now being held by the ZCP and the government.
*Economy: Stagnant in most cases.
*Research
**Yuri Watney: The body of Yuri Watney is still being analysed constantly. However the effects of cremation are still being debated, whether if the virus or something inside can survive having the host body being burnt and become airborne or die and be contained in the process. Since there might be a chance of possible reanimation, the United States' top classified agents and researchers attempt to burn the body of other cases rather than Yuri Watney's body because it can lead to many other cases.
**West Coast Crackdown: All bodies are being stashed up to contribute the research of the virus, the black liquid and the affected bodies. Some bodies that were captured are underway cremation in an attempt to understand if the virus withstands heat after the body is fully burnt down to ash and also to prevent the virus or any form that might infect another being.
*Diplomacy
**Korea: The President cut all ties with them and decided to aim nuclear weapons in a threat that if they don't open borders to them, all cities such as Pyongyang, Seoul, Busan and Chongjin even with multiple anti-missile systems in place (since it'll be multiple missiles at a rapid rate) will be burnt down and their economy in shatters. Many believe that President Hughes has now gone insane by ordering military officials to do so at the end of March but he claims that Korea is "much more insane than Kim was and that they need to stop making everyone look like they're coming from a developing country".
===2029 Q2===
Korea suffers a sharp decline in their economy, as firms prefer not to conduct business in a nation that separates everything coming from a select list of nations in quarantine camps. Protests occur in both Seoul and Pyongyang. China pledges to support the US if Korea continues such an aggressive policy.
In the Astana Conference, a meeting between the UK, Germany, China and Kazakhstan, it is decided that foreign aid will be supplied to the Russian government to combat the communist forces, while Chinese forces will be on standby to intervene where necessary.
History repeats itself. Sanctions on Korea by the US, Canada, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Also the GDP drops.
Sightings of the Zalgo in Ecuador and Colombia. Cases are more common in the United States, and it is becoming harder to keep the news under control.
Unconfirmed cases in Haiti, Suriname, Ivory Coast and Morocco. UNCONFIRMED. *STARING VERY AGGRESSIVELY AT KOREA*
====Korea====
*     Government: Republic. To combat the sudden destabilizing of the economy, we lift the travel ban to the American countries and wish to resume trade. The government sincerely apologizes to its citizens.
*     Economy: We halt all investments. We start developing the Northern area of Korea. We build factories to try to increase economic output. GDP drops at 1.1% $1.61 to 1.59 trillion. Samsung, Hyundai, and other major companies will be owned by the government until the sanctions and embargoes are lifted.
*     Military
* Ground Forces
* Active troops : 2,627,500
* Reserve troops : 3,202,250
*     Tanks : 3,364
*     AFV : 2,710
*     SPG : 2,055
* Towed Artillery : 5,374
*     MLRS : 234
Decreasing of Military Budget : The military budget shall be cut to 75% The other 25% shall be used for economic purposes.
Anti-missile Systems On the Coast : In response of the nuclear weapons of the United States being pointed at us, we set up anti-missile systems. Upgraded variants of the THAAD shall be used.
* Air Force
*     Fighters : 655
*     Attack : 448
*     Transport : 348
*     Trainer : 273
* Attack helicopters : 129
Aerial Patrols : the Air Force still conducts aerial Patrols.
* Navy
* Aircraft Carrier : 1
*     Frigates : 23
* Destroyers : 24
*     Corvettes : 21
* Submarines : 25
* Patrol vessels : 70
* Mine warfare : 11
* Diplomacy
* North America, Central America : We apologize for our overreacting to the Zalgo sightings. We wish to normalize relations and start trading with one another.
* Russia : An additional 300 troops would arrive in 2029 Q3
* Kazakhstan : We would like to send 150 volunteers as a peacekeeping force.
* China : We shall stop our aggressive acts.
* Morocco, Haiti, Ivory Coast : ... I don’t care anymore. Our economy is going downhill..
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**The government remains silent about the situation in the US since it's afraid of being linked to the censorship, and doesn't know how the people would react to an unintentional leak.
**The maximum legal amount of ammunition per civilian-owned firearm is doubled due to popular request. This is a response to the Zalgo sightings in Colombia and Ecuador, the popular demand for more ammunition was faked.
**The Ministry of Health issues a note discouraging travel to Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Central America, due to a suspected Yellow Fever outbreak. Actually, it's for the Zalgos. However, no ban is enacted.
**BAP members, higher government officials and Armed Forces officers create the Elicont Protocol (See BAP topic for more details)
*Military:
**Five Two extra battalions are deployed in the Amazon to search for Zalgos in the border combat venezuelan guerrillas that may have crossed the border illegally.
**The Marine Corps recieve special training for four weeks to deal with "unusual issues". The themes were nuclear warfare, refugee crisis, zombie disease outbreak and extraterrestrial invasion. Although people thought it was laughable, the Marines executed the trainings with seriousness. When asked for the reasons, Admiral Constantino said in a humorous tone: "The world is a strange place, we must be ready for anything. You won't laugh when the Marines save you from aliens." Two of these special trainings were decoys. The Admiral's words were carefully chosen to take the focus away from the zombie part. There was no further questioning, only memes about an alien invasion on Brazil showing it was successful in diverting the focus from the zombie training.
*Economy:
**The sanctions on Korea cause an increase on agropecuary exportions to the country.
**Brazilian-designed-and-made electronics become more valuable in the international market.
*Diplomacy:
**Brazil offers to mediate any peace negotiation between Russia, Kazakhstan and the communist rebels.
*Blue Amazon Project:
**A secret special force called "FCZ", made of COpEsp and Marines, is formed. They will take care of the Zalgo-related military affairs.
**The research base in the Amazon is fully functional. It's guarded by FCZ personnel and is only accessible through a small, secret airfield. To land there, a password is necessary. Unauthorized landing is strictly forbidden, punishable with execution on spot. Anyone entering must go through a three-day quarantine separated from the main complex. People with physical or mental changes within the three days must NOT be allowed in the main complex. FCZ soldiers who enter in contact with Zalgos in missions must incinerate their clothes, take a chemical shower and be put in quarantine. Policies must assume maximum infection risk until more details about infectivity are discovered. Zalgos out of containment must be killed on sight.
**Due to uncertainty about the situation in USA, any brazilian personnel working there must be ready to leave at any moment to be stationed into our own base.
**A suspected Zalgo instance has been arrested while trying to drive from Venezuela to Brazil. The person was still conscious, but, according to the soldiers, "looked infected". She was sedated and sent to quarantine to be put under observation.
**Research results on the venezuelan Zalgo, named Z-01:
***A pathogen has been identified to be the cause of Zalgo. Type of pathogen still unknown. Samples has been isolated to try to identify the type of pathogen. Team Alpha is looking for capsid interactions to find a virus. Team Bravo is testing for peptidoglycan cell walls to find a bacterium. Team Charlie is looking for spores and growth pattern in healthy samples to find a fungus. Each team recieves $700,000 for the research.
***Z-01 showed no signs of decomposion, which were supposed to appear based on the time of death. However, some of its skin turned gray and others black.
***Any and all research results are not to be shared with other countries or institutions until further orders.
**Operation Eyeless:
***In response to the increasing cases of Zalgo in northern South America, patrol around the Amazon area intensifies.
***For now, the dense jungle and low population density are protecting us, but we fear it spreads through the Pacific Coast and then reach us through the more populated Centre-South. Therefore, BAP hackers watch closely about any case of Zalgo in Peru and Bolivia. Two FCZ teams are deployed in Acre, ready to capture Zalgos detected in Peru and Bolivia ASAP.
**The instance in Colombia is traced to be in a civilian hospital. A mission to capture the Zalgo is authorized. The audio log follows:
***Mike: (whispering) Main hall, clear.
***Lucas: Are you sure the security isn't watching us through the cameras?
***Martins: Doesn't matter, we won't last long here. Besides, we don't look like criminals.
***Lucas: What if they think we're criminals with night vision and full military outfit?
***Mike: Shut the fuck up, we're going up the stairs. What's the room again?
***Silva: 229, second floor.
***(two minutes of silence, only steps heard.)
***Mike: Hallway, clear. Look for the number.
***Martins: There, 229.
***Lucas: Oh, shit. The door is open.
***Mike: Weapons tight. We want her alive, if possible.
***(silence)
***Mike: Damn it, she's not here. Base, we have a...
***Silva: Are those screams?
***(Rushed steps. Yelling becomes audible.)
***Lucas: What the hell? Three of them?
***Mike: Base, we have three instances of Zalgo, extraction of alive cases impossible. Over.
***Command: WHAT? Get the hell out of there. We're calling the Colombian Army to quarantine the hospital.
***Mike: You heard him, let's...
***(Gunshots and screams)
***Silva: NO! SHIT!
***Martins: Screw this, I'm killing those assholes.
***Mike: Just leave this goddamn place!
***(Rushed steps and gunshots)
***Silva: No way, they're there!
***Lucas: How many of them are there? The whole fucking hospital?
***Mike: I don't care. The helicopter is in the door, just get the fuck out.
***(More gunshots. Inhuman screams.)
***Lucas: FUCK!
***(Helicopter engine audible and getting closer)
***Mike: There it is! Get into the helicopter!
***(More gunshots)
***(Gunshots cease. Helicopter engine close.)
***Mike: Base, we're getting out. We... (wheezing) Just bomb this goddamn hospital. It's doomed.
***[End of the audio log]
***The two soldiers directly assaulted by Zalgos, private Lucas and Corporal Silva, were quarantined. The hospital's fate is still undecided. Both governments from Brazil and Colombia are trying to hide the incident.
**Elicont Protocol: To be used ONLY in case of major Zalgo infection in Brazil and/or impossibility to keep the matter secret. Martial law and State of Exception are to be decreted. Airports and roads connecting Brazil to other countries are to be shut down. People must be instructed on how to avoid infection, based on how much knowlege of the Zalgos is avaliable by the time the protocol is activated. The Army must stabilish quarantine zones outside of major urban centres (Not ready, government still working on it). Killing on sight of suspected Zalgo instances will be authorized. An evacuation plan to government officials and Armed Forces officers will be created within the next months.
====United States of America====
*Government
**Zalgogate: On 4th April, someone publicly published at least 62 documents on Wikileaks (they're mostly sightings and attacks lost and deleted after being documented by the CIA, few of which contain basic information of Zalgos). As cases were becoming hard to remove or have the population know in some way, even making to the large cable television news channels such as CNN, Fox News and local news channels even, then suddenly it caught the eye of the CIA and multiple agents after files were spotted online on Wikileaks. The man only known as Christopher was known to be in contact with the President pleaded guilty after being arrested trying to get into the airport and escaping to an undefined location. He said that the President gave him files of the Zalgo which were taken down after one day being present on that site then all copies of the document were burnt so that none can reproduce these files. The Zalgogate begun with a threatened impeachment process to President Hughes who Christopher claimed he was in contact with him. Hughes denied any process and said that he's away for one day to meet his daughter but there's more to that (for the rest of the story, see Impeachment Vote). Publicly however, the bizarre leaked documents went onto the Dark Web as one of the anonymous users hacked the firewall of the Wikileaks website and downloaded all files regarded to the Zalgo sightings and attacks. He used an onion router to cloak his own location (so no-one knows where he lived) and uploaded it to many sites of the Dark Web. What will happen next is unknown but the Dark Web is known to be difficult to take down even if a Zalgo document went unnoticed.
**Impeachment Vote: With the turn of events suddenly unfolded on the second quarter of 2029, impeachment is now being threatened and approved by both parties (due to him taking things too far) after government leaks were shown. The Congress decides that both the Senate and the House of Representatives will vote whether Hughes should be removed from his position after trying to leak files to the public and since most of the files are in the Dark Web, they could be used literally everywhere and be uploaded onto where everyone can access it. This will happen by the next quarter. Publicly, Hughes was threatened to be impeached following corruption by bribing officials to do what he wanted and was given house arrest, along with his family. That was the half of the story.
**Censorship: Censorship is starting to adversely affecting the free press despite multiple constant fear of panic. After Wikileaks published the Zalgo documents and then taken down a day after, it seems that the mainstream media went into a frenzy of these releases, unauthorised but a sensation and many began to protest as soon as the Zalgogate began to develop April 2029, mainly conspiracists and those who believe the Zalgo are real and had constantly tried to spread word (they are mostly arrested by the way). Panic is coming and soon America might fall. America may have already fallen. With Hughes' power handed over to VP Marco Rubio until his impeachment process is either complete and that the Congress voted narrowly against possible impeachment, he wasn't able to stop censorship by agents and government officials anytime soon after making a big intentional mistake.
**The 29th Amendment: Money in politics, also known as corruption using the power of currency and wealth. Although this was brought up by the Democrats very recently (even Bernie Sanders back in 2016 had tried to bring the problem into the primaries), the 29th Amendment (or the Amendment against Wealth Corruption) was close to becoming passed with few more states are yet to eradicate corporal lobbying or at least three-fourths of all US states since 2025. If it comes into effect, this means wealthy figures and companies would not be allowed to influence any held elections.
*Military
**Intervention: With some files leaked, the ZCP and elite personnel have decided the best way to handle these leaks was to ground their forces' operation for seven days prior to Zalgogate, constantly once being a big task has now being a failure thanks to files being leaked out to the public over a president who made popular promises. Once their grounded oeriod is over, they decided to do the cases fiercely more than ever, using force to civilians if they refuse to get back.
***Operation Griffin: This operation would prevent further Zalgos from crossing borders on Canadian and Mexican soil despite both now having common sightings. It also focuses secretly on Canada as well to capture Zalgos by themselves, raising suspicion within the Canadian government and personnel who are authorised to believe the Zalgo had existed.
***West Coast Cases: Common sightings in the United States had led to few thousand members of the ZCP operate in virtally every state, even in Alaska and Mexico, which are far fringed states but with Canada having unusual sightings, there's a big chance that the Zalgo would reach onto the state of Alaska. The ZCP in mainland United States are also ordered to capture some Zalgos alive in a cage, a more secure one. Their movements are unpredictable but if they were to get one out successfully, this would mean a big game changer. So far they caught nothing.
**Watching Korea: Nuclear tensions decline although backup measures are conducted in ensuring that the Korean government doesn't commit "xenophobic behaviours".
*Research: Three bodies are now a priority rather than one. The second research base exclusively related to the Zalgo is set up on a remote location of Alaska (due to low population density) rather than being in the contigenous part of the United States but there's nothing significant about it yet.
**Subject #1 (Yuri Watney): Watney is still being kept away after nine months of decomposition and tests. Now they want to wait if there's external mutation that the pathogen produces even if the corpse of Watney still lies around and become discoloured every month that passes by.
**Subject #18 (Zac Golding): The subject here is kept for similar purposes.
**Subject #21 (Morris [REDACTED]): Same here and is freshly new. Subject #21 is studied by cutting up the body into parts, the liquid itself collected into secure containers, while extracting the brain out carefully in one autopsy. The brain will be studied if there's any changes prior to infection.
**Liquid: Three controlled corpses, including Yuri Watney are being tested of their liquid by extracting some of remaining ones inside the body carefully. Scientists had presumed it was mutated blood after being extracted. They search for that liquid if there's a presence of a pathogen. Since Yuri's corpse decays even further and the two other subjects are three months old and killed recently respectively, they want to compare how will black liquid change after they have died and if there's significant difference to it. They also tested some of that liquid by attempting to burn the liquid, if it has any material properties or if it assimilates other liquids like water. Results will come the next quarter.
**Other subjects: With a successful test indicating that bodies that had being burnt of to get rid of the pathogen might not survive in most cases with exception of some surviving still after being burnt. More bodies that were captured are also being instead of cremating it, they decide to turn up the temperature in a concealed room higher than normal temperatures and see if the virus also dies if it isn't cremated. Their next goal is to capture some Zalgo samples alive rather than testing on dead samples, but many researchs claim they'll sprawl out of control, so they had to make sure that they capture it in a cage, be placed with a thick layer of lead and various chambers, enough to make it not escape.
*Economy: It was once stagnant, now it's starting to slide down.
*Diplomacy
**Korea: Even under a temporary Rubio administration, they will still hold nuclear weapons until the US is indeed confident they don't become "haywired" to fake threats. Only diplomatic relationships are restored.
====Iceland====
*Government: A republic with the Alþingi as our legislature.
**Demographics: 363k people 
**Ethnics:
***92.06% Iceland
***3.62% Polish
***4.32% other
*Military
**Iceland has no military.
**Icelandic Coast Goard:
***3 x Patrol vessels
***1 x Fixed wing aircraft
***3 x Helicopters
***2 x Patrol/survey boat
***220 x Officers and men
*Economy
**GDP: 20 billion US$, 56,180 US$ per capita
**Mainly from tourism, fishing, alumnium producing, and stuff
**We also drill oil in the Arctic and sell to other nations, like the United States, and now we are open for foreign oil companies to drill oil if they pay us.
*Diplomacy:
**US/Korea stuff: We state that we denounce Korea for their actions on the US.
===2029 Q3===
Sanctions are lifted on Korea for their cooperation.
Colombian news report of a gas explosion in a hospital. Colombian and Peruvian militaries are noted to be hosting joint exercises.
Increase in sightings within West Africa, with some villages reporting a "Maux Noir" attacking them at night.
Yellow fever outbreak in Liberia. WHO distributes pamphlets detailing how to prevent mosquito-transmitted diseases.
Protests occur in Beijing over the state of the government.
Brazilian Research Update [Brazilian Knowledge Only]
Under unprecedented circumstances, Private Lucas enters a comatose state, and exhibits skin discolouration. Meanwhile, Z-01 designated by Brazilian intelligence reanimates, attacking nearby staff.
American Research Update [US Knowledge Only]
'No signs of reanimation recorded. Prescense of pathogen discovered in blood, unconfirmed type. The corpses decompose at much slower rates as compared to normal corpses. The liquid is not flammable, does not exhibit any unique properties and does not assimilate other liquids, however is recorded to be thicker than normal blood. Under extreme heat, the virus is noted to perish after a few hours, but some survive by unprecedented circumstance.'The brain of Subject #21 is noted to exhibit severe atrophy in certain areas, including the cerebellum, hypothalmus and the prefrontal cortex.
==== Kingdom of Norway ====
* Government: Constitutional Monarchy
** King: Haakon VIII
* Population: 6.1 million
* Military:
** Active Personnel: 26,800. (2,000 in Russia)
** Reserve Personnel: 47,000
* Economy:
** GDP: 370.8 billion $ (71,891$ per capita)
** Mainly from tourism, fishing and agriculture.
* Events:
** Diplomatic Ties: We do all diplomatic actions with infected countries from afar (through technology), to keep our population safe from the Zalgos.
** Research: After researching the disease, scientists have come up with theories:
*** 1- It could be an Aztec/Mayan disease.
*** 2- It could have come from Siberia when people were coming over to Alaska during the time that there was a landbridge there. It might've called places like Nunavut home.
*** 3- It migh've been a Native American disease.
* Diplomacy:
** Nordic Scientific Pact: Want to focus on finding the disease's origin? We have some theories, we can try to debunk or prove them.
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**A Whatsapp chain starts to be shared, stating that documents found in the Deep Web prove the existance of "demoniac zombies, surrounded by a dark aura and dripping black liquid", and saying the brazilian government was involved in covering up the story. The government remained silent about it, but the chain was proven false by specialists hired by the government. Still, the story gained a higher profile in Brazil after the incident.
**After the chain, the brazilian intelligence starts a hunt to locate the whistleblower. The documents were indeed found in the Deep Web, but no one was traced and taking down the files is nearly impossible.
*Military:
**The Marine Corps start to offer free shooting and weapons use lessons, since more people are purchasing firearms and they want to be ready in case of a Zalgo pandemy.
**Army conduces drills coordinated by Sargent Mike, Sargent Martins and Corporal Silva, the three survivors of the failed raid in the colombian hospital. Being the only soldiers to directly fight Zalgos, they prepare missions to simulate Zalgo attacks. Yet, since the moment was brief and chaotic, the missions are not totally effective on simulating. Also, the army is too big and only a few battalions are selected to train.
*Economy:
**Military factories are reopened after five years and restart the production of weapons, ammunition and military equipment.
**The political crisis in USA and protests in China, two big trade partners, shake the economy.
*Diplomacy:
**Brazilian scientists in the US are called back due to the political instability and our own necessity of scientists.
**Foreign students and researchers of the health area are offered high-paying jobs in Brazil to the study of Zalgo. Latin America is priorized, as these countries usually don't have many opportunities for scientists.
*Blue Amazon Project:
**Team Alpha, Bravo and Charlie try different approaches and keep testing samples for virus, bacteria or fungi, respectively. Team Delta is created to look for a worm. Funding increases to $800K each team.
**The venezuelan lady, stopped in the border for Zalgo suspect, was observed for two weeks and showed no signal of infection. She was submitted to several brainwashing sections to implant false memories about her time in the research complex. She was convinced her car broke and had no signal to call someone, and was stranded in a small town until the car was fixed.
**Private Lucas, after being attacked and quarantined, suddenly entered in comatose, and his skin started to discolourate. He was designated as Z-02. Skin samples from his mouth and face were isoladed, despite disapproval by local staff since he was still alive. He must undergo brain scan with magnetic resonance imaging every six hours and must be under vigilance 24/7.
**Corporal Silva showed no signs of infection and was liberated.
**While being observed, Z-01 suddenly reanimated. He let out an unnatural scream and bit off part of Dr. Helena's forearm. Dr. Diego tried to stop him, but then was attacked, scratched and bit in the elbow. Security personnel was immediately called and neutralized Z-01 with shots in the back and head.
***Drs. Diego and Helena were escorted by personnel in HAZMAT suits to separated quarantine rooms. Helena was given strong antibiotics for the bite and for the case Zalgo is a bacteria weak enough to be fought with antibiotics.
***Z-01 was put under observation to see if it was really dead this time. Scientists brainstorm and try to theorize about the incident, since Z-01 was confirmed dead and was not supposed to be alive.
***The room of the incident was isolated, stripped of important documentation and equipment and then cleaned with sodium hydroxide and flamethrowers.
***After the incident, a new policy was adopted: Any and all Zalgo instances, dead or alive, must be observed by armed personnel 24/7. Under no circumstances a Zalgo instance and a staff personnel must be in the same room without at least two armed guards.
====United States of America====
*Government
**Zalgogate (April 2029-present): Zalgogate continues to this day after Hughes was impeached (and still in a house arrest due to concerns that he might use all the information and his reputation to convince people of the truth) and an anti-corruption campaign was launched but its main purpose is to distract the drama of the Zalgo case for many civilians. Mass protests over transparency and censorship skyrocketed in the middle of summer 2029 in response to Zalgogate, President Rubio refuses to openly confess to the rest of the people. Christopher was also executed on August in an isolated place after being questioned of any vital information of the President's intentions during the leaking. The Dark Web continues to distribute the leaked files from Wikileaks and now about a handful of ten thousand probably had attempted to upload it to the surface web. On September however, there was another risk that Hughes might try to convince other agents to open up a transparent setting for all Zalgo-related documents after talks were recorded even during house arrest with his family. Security is heavily enhanced so that his own phone and any person that he encounters are being carefully watched.
**A successful impeachment: On 3rd July, an impeachment vote held by the Congress takes place. They voted unanimously to impeach and take down Robert Hughes as the 47th President of the United States and being the first US President to be impeached in its own history. The public is given in a press after the impeachment that he was accused of corruption and recording multiple tapes and that the now-president Marco Rubio would "try to find links of those involved" in Zalgogate. He remains in a house arrest to this day and a supreme court case will be held next turn if Hughes was guilty while the corruption crackdown was actually trying to detain and arrest those who are involved with Zalgogate and those who actively tried to distribute classified documents that are now leaked.
**Censorship: It continues to this day. On August 2029, director and producer Ollie Roland (known to have produced a hit drama in 2024-27 named Our Vengence for HBO) obtained the 62 documents by printing another set of copies and announced that he is underway developing a series loosely based on thr Zalgo attacks. He was heavily inspired by the current ongoing events he claimed in an interview, which raised the concern of the United States' attempt to conceal a potential panic crisis that spontaneously backfired when Hughes distributed and allowed a person to get the documents to the public. He is carefully watched and agents are being sent to constantly delay the upcoming series and push him not to convince others not to allow them to know that this is true, while trying to find the same set of documents and burning it. "Soon there may be no way to stop someone from making a huge panic," said [REDACTED]. Rumours also grow that if thr US government is on the verge of collapse, censorship could finally be lifted and perhaps other governments may be able to distribute it, but not to this day, yet.
**The 29th Amendment: One of the states have finally ratified this amendment to be put into the US Constitution on August 2029 and thus corporations and wealthy people were no longer allowed as a result from September and onwards to fund camapigns and parties, even those who are considered donestic. However a new fear of an alternative way of funding politics began to grow by the end of this decade.
*Military
**Intervention:
***Operation Griffin: In Minnesota, a readied sealed cage that should be able to withstand a Zalgo attempting to escape was prepared. A new reported rumour suggests that there is a Zalgo sighted near the border of the US and Canada and this is one of the most earnt chances that they could get a live Zalgo to be observed. However a soldier and member of the ZCP, Josephine was attacked by one of the Zalgos in the river as she tried to lure it into a cage. Few other subjects were also attacked as a result, but Josephine and Quince were the ones being bitten by the Zalgo upon attempting to lure it into the cage. Both were permanently sent back to the research base, disconnecting their own relations with outside of the world and are fully observed by the research station's newly built quarantine wing. However the Zalgo itself had escaped unscathed and that the mission in Minnesota was a failure but now they have two infected, they can sit this one out and instead observe them when they exhibit Zalgo-like characteristics from a separate isolated room.
***Operation West Coast: With the mission in Minnesota failed that 3rd September, the 20th September attempt was set in Oregon instead, able to learn from mistakes by equipping ZCP forces with lots of gear, from neck to feet. In the forest however, there were many cases that the Zalgo attacked people in the car and were declared missing. This was raised significantly. However the force of eight were confident enough to get at least one inside the sealed cage that was once again prepared for and with one of them coming out and with the team armed and prepared, they were able to physically force the Zalgo, which constantly tried to bite off one of the team's flesh but was quickly given a muzzle and then pushing it into a cage to be transferred. Although three of them were close to be bitten (including one close to having his nose ripped off, although he has some of the black liquid splattered in his face) and they were sent to quarantine as a result for six months, nothing significant has changed yet.
**Expansion of the ZCP: As more and more cases began to appear, the ZCP and President Rubio agreed that researchers and veterans will be given a $10 billion package in the 2030 subject, raised from $6 billion in the 2029 budget, while soldiers who have three to five years of experience or in service (doesn't matter if you are in the Navy or in the Air Force) will be allowed in rather than being handpicked only if they swore not to tell their families or any close relatives about the Zalgo unless their own family or relative has similar requirements. They are also given heavy training and tests before being approved by the ZCP that they are willing to do it.
*Economy:
**2029 Recession: As a political crisis, which is Zalgogate in that case unfolds throughout 2029, an economic recession began to take place with the Dow Jones index score reduced from 27,000 to 25,000 in three months. The 2030 budget is instead pushing forward in researching regarding of the Zalgo while unusually the US military budget was slashed from $750 billion to $400 billion as announced (which is one of the signs that the US is on the verge of decline), with the rest being dedicated to education, health/welfare and other areas.
*Research: There might be no cure at all. We might not even have it anyway.
**Subject #1: Despite slow decaying processes, Yuri Watney's body is kept for the next 12 months if it gets into the skeleton, with every week a screenshot was taken, done since the disposal of Watney's body in Las Vegas. They are also waiting if there's any external changes to the body somehow.
**Subject #18: The body of Zac Golding is given a decrease in temperature in a test if the pathogen mutates somehow. If the pathogen can survive in cold temperatures after being observed, could it mutate somehow at a fast pace or reproduce or even reanimate somehow?
**Subject #21: The brain is further studied if it continues to change but Subject #21's body will do nothing at least.
**Subject #144: Live subject released into an isolated room in the Right Zalgo Wing. Expect instability in the contained room specially built to contain it from escaping (for now), allowing researchers to observe it's behaviours from a distance. All others that are bitten or close to being infected are put into quarantine in a different wing, with those haven't got bite marks that become too obvious for three to six months.
**Other bodies: Nothing happens.
**Setting up the Alaskan Research Military Base (ARMB): The ARMB finally opened up as a backup research base with some of the other bodies being transferred to that base. Only a few know about this in case the coordinates for the main base were leaked and they have no choice to abandon that base for these reasons.
*Diplomacy
**Norway: You don't know anything about it, how about stop being a huge meme metagamer? And you can't see where it came from.
====Korea====
** Government: Republic. All major companies are now re-privatized. The government starts working on an infrastructure program. Seoul and Pyongyang shall merge into the Greater United Korean City. Project will start from 2030-2032
** Economy: We invest into the Philippines, Kazakhstan, Brazil, and Russia. GDP increases by 0.9% GDP rises from 1.59 to 1.60 trillion. Economists observe a recent economic boom. They predict that this economic boom would blossom during 2029 Q4.
** Military
** Ground Forces
** Active troops : 2,627,500
** Reserve troops : 3,202,250
** Tanks : 3,389
** AFV : 2,710
** SPG : 2,055
** Towed Artillery : 5,374
** MLRS : 234
Military budget returns back to normal : The military budget is returned to 100%
New Operational K3 : 25 K3 tanks have been built and tested. They are now commissioned.
** Air Force
** Fighters : 655
** Attack : 448
** Transport : 348
** Trainer : 273
** Attack helicopters : 129
Aerial Patrols : the Air Force still conducts aerial Patrols.
** Navy
** Aircraft Carrier : 2
** Frigates : 23
** Destroyers : 24
** Corvettes : 21
** Submarines : 25
** Patrol vessels : 70
** Mine warfare : 11
** Commissioning of the new ROKS Joseon : The new Joseon-Class Carrier is now commissioned. This ship will be the flagship of the Navy.
** Diplomacy
** Russia : We would like to send 100 more volunteers. We would donate $2.9 million and some military equipment. 
** Kazakhstan : We would also like to send 500 more volunteers. We would donate $3.5 million and some military equipment as well.
=== 2029 Q4===
Mali reports of presumed militant attacks on villages and rural towns. This leads many to believe terrorist organisations such as Boko Haram have acquired chemical or biological weapons. Mali reveals that the attacks were actually Zalgo-based, and have demanded the right to know what the hell is going on.
Panama reports a serious yellow fever outbreak, and imposes new regulations to prevent foreign ships from getting infected. Panama uses this as a coverrup for Zalgo cases, which have regrettably spread to other nations by trade ships.
The Civil War in Russia continues, although there is not much action in Siberia. Belarus is accused of supporting the UCR. Belarus actually does support the UCR though.
A madman is seen in New York City, behaving extremely aggressively and assaulting several civilians. He is taken away by what is presumed to be mental institute staff. First major Zalgo Outbreak in the US. Zalgo currently captured, but those attacked by him are not in containment, and constitute potential Zalgos. United States response needed.
No response recorded by Zac Golding in ARMB.
The Conakry Meeting is held by Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Gambia and Mali to discuss economic ties in West Africa. Cover for discussion of recent increase in Zalgo sightings.
Zalgo sightings in Peru, Suriname, Algeria, Senegal, Angola, the DRC and Spain (Canary Islands).
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**An emergency meeting of the high authorities involved in the Zalgo case happens. They come to the conclusion that a Zalgo pandemy is imminent and secrecy will only disrupt the efforts to fight it. Still, fear of an american intervention stops Brazil from declassifying the Zalgo data.
**Drills are conduced in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre regarding an "emergency evacuation" to the countryside. Army officers watched closely to develop an evacuation plan for large cities in case of major Zalgo outbreak in Brazil. No reason was stated. People start suspecting a relation with the zombie Whatsapp stories that circulated in August, and the drill is mentioned in several news.
**Bolsonaro decides to run for a 4th term in 2030. Parties scramble to nominate their candidacts.
*Military:
**The Army starts building refugee camps in the outskirts of large population centres. When fully operational, each will be capable to house 200,000 people. However, they are not enough to host all the population of the cities. So, in case of outbreaks, the Armed Forces must priorize the creation of quarantine zones within the cities, and only send people to camps if their region is compromised.
**The military sets up accidents in the borders with Peru and Suriname to avoid travelling.
*Economy:
**Trading with Latin America declines for unknown reasons, impacting the economy. Trades are being limited due to Zalgo.
*Diplomacy:
**A team of doctors is sent to Panama to vaccinate locals against Yellow Fever. Vaccines are actually saline, and the doctors are there to study patterns on Zalgo behavior.
**1,200 peacekeepers are urgently sent to Mali to counter the bioweapons threat. Part of the "soldiers" are researchers, sent to observe the Zalgos just like in Panama. The real soldiers will explain the situation to the Mali government and offer assistance to the Mali Army to contain and combat the Zalgos before they spread.
*Institute for Combat and Study of Zalgos (ICEZ)
**The Blue Amazon Project is renamed for a more fit name.
**Currently, the ICEZ possesses four Zalgo instances:
***Z-01: Venezuelan man captured earlier this year. Was declared dead until reanimating and attacking nearby staff, months ago. He's been under observation after being shot with 5.56 bullets in the head and chest, and reported no second reanimation. We believe he's dead for real now.
***Z-02: Private Lucas, infected during a mission in Colombia. Still in comatose. Under observation for brain activity.
***Z-03: Dr. Helena, attacked by Z-01. Showed the same signals as Z-02 (comatose and skin discolouration), but nothing further. Under observation.
***Z-04: Dr. Diego, attacked by Z-01. Same as above. Under observation.
***Any change of behavior, appearance or activity in current instances will be noted and reported.
**Teams Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta fail to find a pathogen in blood samples. It is believed the blood has too many foreign contaminants. Therefore, the blood is fractionated, and the teams analyze part by part separatedly. Skin samples from Z-02 and Z-01 are also taken and analyzed. Each team now recieves $1M.
**Several immigrants from the health area, mostly from Cuba and Mexico, get into the country after government incentives, and many are sent to the Zalgo research.
**A team is created to try to trace the origin of the Zalgos. They found nothing yet.
**Special Forces personnel in disguise keep patrolling airports and international access roads looking for people with suspected Zalgo infection.
====United States of America====
*Government
**Zalgogate (April 2029-present): Zalgogate began to worsen into this quarter of the year. It is the end of the 2020s, with technology developed quickly until the start of 2029 in which the economy of the US stagnates entirely and started to slide due to political tension and now the Zalgos are posing a major threat. Most events of Zalgogate are covered in other sections but Hughes' family and including himself are still in a house arrest but the Court itself decided to postpone the trial to April 2030 after an incident in New York happened.
**Riots of New York (December 2029): As many people began to know that the government is trying to cover something, riots began to break out, especially conspiracists who believe Zalgos were real. The epidemic worsens as a result in December, weeks after the attack by an insane man happened. Thousands are infected as a result as many of these Zalgos ended up living in the dark corners of New York's cities, along with surrounding urban regions such as Long Island and New Jersey, making it virtually impossible to stop the outbreak from being contained. Censorship is still up to a heated debate for so long ever since Zalgogate took place, so don't expect conspiracists' hopes up yet. The public is told that no-one is allowed to move out or in of New York, Long Island and New Jersey after declaring state of emergency there, using the excuse of these recent riots as a way to contain the Zalgo outbreak but also allowing the ZCP to effectively crack down inside the city more effectively as they wouldn't be allowed to escape without facing being arrested.
**Censorship: President Rubio and his administration in late 2029 had done almost nothing about the leaks, a director who begun producing and filming a Zalgo-related series and using illegal classified documents as his source and research and the major epidemic in New York City. They were almost close to admitting the truth about the rising epidemic of Zalgos but how would they do it is still an ongoing debate, with many fearing the leaks will cause more chaos and panic. President Rubio said that if all of the expunged Zalgo sightings were leaked, he'd still erase them from existence but a growing number of Congress members and military officials have demanded Rubio as altitudes change after the New York incident to make an exclusive speech at the White House. It may take two more months before Rubio decided to declassify all Zalgo files after holding grudges to Hughes' attempts for ten months and increase transparency of the government.
**War on Freedom of Press: Hackers based in Florida somehow tapped into the CIA's digital database of documents and have decided to move forward by leaking 726 documents intentionally on October 2029, mostly the most vital information related to Zalgo sightings and attacks that were expunged between January to August 2029, including more information that wasn't available to the Dark Web until now. They were uploaded to the Dark Web as well as one of the major tactics to avoid government intervention, which made it increasingly difficult with more and more documents being out in the public. The US government now seems to refuse to intervene on this case as more Zalgo cases grew even further, even censorship had somewhat started to elevate its effectiveness. Many speculated that the War on Freedom of Press has begun as more reporters and journalists have decided to report the Zalgo cases in other locations instead of their coventional headquarters in fear of persecution as many were arrested two years now for spreading the word of the Zalgo.
*Military
**Intervention: The US government has to intervene in New York as a higher priority order than all other operations (though they will still be watched) before it could get any worse.
***Other operations: All other operations will run normally but they will get less funding despite a raise for next year's budget by few billions. However in one case, there was a Zalgo that looked like Kevin Spacey in a house located in southern California and ZCP soldiers were totally confused as a result, despite that they killed that Zalgo and dragged it back to the Continental Research Center, which is running for at least two years now and made progress since Yuri Watney arrived here as a corpse.
***Intervention in New York: Over 8000 ZCP troops were deployed into New York disguised as military personnel and police during the riots. Most of these riots will be apprehanded alone by actual police while their actual goal is to knock down doors and kill Zalgos on their way. As the situation of this epidemic worsens, at least few hundred were now infected in turn of events in dark isolated rooms in every building in New York. The riots also fuelled up the number of infected in this city in late 2029, which made the ZCP being exposed to some extent. The news had now reported a possible existence of a men in black organisation running behind the scenes against these expunged sightings, but the government had denied of its existence as a hoax and said that they are just police forces searching rooms for criminal activites.
**Mali: The ZCP decided to send out troops into Mali, while the press is given a response that the President had signed an order to the military to remove terrorist cells within the region. The ZCP was actually sent there to investigate its origins and how it suddenly came up to Africa when it was physically impossible to cross over from the Americas to Africa itself. They are also looking for any aerial traces or if it were crossed over, traces if it were from a boat and then they can trace it back eventually to the Americas or a specific location.
*Research
**Subject #1: Nothing important happened to Yuri Watney's body. They are still waiting for external changes sometimes.
**Subject #18: Nothing important happened to the body.
**Subject #21: After studying the brain, nothing happened to the body.
**Subject #144 and #666: The 666th body is captured from New York and sent to Subject #144's room in the now announced Continental Research Center (the location is still confidential) to see if Zalgos can interact with each other, with proposed theories of having a mob mentality beginning to emerge.
**Kevin Spacey's body: Kevin Spacey's body or whatever body that looks like Kevin Spacey (his body double?) is analysed if the Zalgo became effectively asexual. They're not looking for reproduction if a Zalgo sperm/egg can interact with a human one, they're checking if the organs are fused or disappear entirely.
**Tracing the origins of the African Zalgo: Curious, they want to trace back some of the Zalgos based in Mali, which one of them were killed and then brought back secretly without the knowledge of the government (please don't be angry with us) if the body has a similar trace to the pathogen (I kept calling it a virus but that'll be the informal term of the pathogen) in the Americas. They decide that the best way to look at the pathogen is to remove it from any kind of liquid. Many believe that the virus would be smaller than a typical virus or bacteria discovered and that it could be passed onto one's body even if they had sexual contact with them.
**Infected: Watched of. They are in a coma, not all of them, ever since some were bitten by Subject #144 and then the New York Epidemic beginning to rise in late 2029, many ZCP soldiers in New York that are suspected to be infected are to be moved to a temporarily created Isolated Quarantine Zone (IQZ) instead of the CRC, in which they are given small dense rooms, with intense lighting (in case they became the Zalgos that the government know) and are to be kept there for 6 months or more depending on the severity.
**Other bodies: The CRC is full and we can't have ARMB to be filled with a lot of bodies of a reason that its supposed to be backup. We must burn these dead bodies and make way for now ones. A larger facility is being commissioned by the government to build an underground morgue that would be able to store at least 20,000 bodies by the time it's done at the end of 2030. The number of stored corpses will just increase basically.
*Economy
**2029 Recession: It continues. Wall Street crashes further thanks to the attack (and Donald Trump is dead now in 20th December 2029). Depression is coming next year.
*Diplomacy
**Mali: The United States has decided to send few hundred ZCP soldiers and approved researchers to Mali. Many approved researchers are also given documents to explain about the virus getting into a place that is virtually impossible to be infected and asked if they are allowed to find any of these Zalgos and capture them back to their own research centres. Publicly, the deployment of soldiers was intentionally to obliterate terrorist strongholds and cells within the nation.
====Iceland====
*Government: A republic with the Alþingi as our legislature.
**Demographics: 367k people 
**Ethnics:
***92.06% Icelandic
***3.62% Polish
***4.32% other
*Military
**Iceland has no military.
**Icelandic Coast Goard:
***3 x Patrol vessels
***1 x Fixed wing aircraft
***3 x Helicopters
***2 x Patrol/survey boat
***220 x Officers and men
*Economy
**GDP: 20 billion US$, 56,180 US$ per capita
**Mainly from tourism, fishing, alumnium producing, and stuff
**We also drill oil in the Arctic and sell to other nations, like the United States, and now we are open for foreign oil companies to drill oil if they pay us.
*Diplomacy:
*Brazil: We would like to send our scientists to help with researching effort.
====Korea====
* Government: Republic. Panamanian trade ships will be temporarily quarantined.
*     Economy: We invest into the Philippines, Kazakhstan, Brazil, and Russia. GDP increases by 2% GDP rises from 1.60 to 1.75 trillion. 
* List of districts GDP and GDP per capita :
Western Korea - $798 billion - $50,000 (LC : Incheon)
Northern Korea -$600 billion - $48,595 (LC : Northern United Korean City/Pyongyang)
Southern Korea - $300 billion - $69,295 (LC : Southern United Korea City/Seoul)
Eastern Korea - $52 billion - $74,205 (LC : Busan)
*     Military
*     Ground Forces
*     Active troops : 2,627,500
*     Reserve troops : 3,202,250
*     Tanks : 3,389
*     AFV : 2,710
*     SPG : 2,055
*     Towed Artillery : 5,374
*     MLRS : 234
Joint Korean Military Exercise or JKME : the Armed Forces of Korea have started a joint exercise. This training would prepare the military for possible invasions.
* Air Force
*     Fighters : 426
*     Attack : 448
*     Transport : 348
*     Trainer : 273
*     Attack helicopters : 129
*     Aerial Patrols : the Air Force still conducts aerial patrols.
* Production of the Indigenous Fighter : With the complete retirement of the F-5 and F-4s, the Indigenous Fighter Program has been concluded. The new fighter or the “IFA-1K” will now be produced. 132 have been ordered. It will be a 5.5 generation aircraft. Designs will include the stealth capabilities of an F-35, the engine of the FA-50 and F-16 combined, known as the “KHE-1 Jet Engine” developed by KAI. 
* Spy Plane to America and Brazil : The Korean Intelligence Agency has sent 30 spies to America and Brazil. We suspect they must be hiding something. 15 spies sent to America will act as Korean-American citizens that want to join the CIA. 15 spies sent to Brazil will join the military.
* Indigenous Cargo Aircraft Program or ICAP : the Air Force has decided to create a new cargo aircraft to replace the C-130s. The code name of the aircraft will be ”Taebaek Carrier”. It will have a larger cargo capacity. Requirements include a speed of 190 kph, a capacity of 50 tons of equipment, and jet engines.
*     Navy
*     Aircraft Carrier : 2
*     Frigates : 23
*     Destroyers : 24
*     Corvettes : 21
*     Submarines : 25
*     Patrol vessels : 70
*     Mine warfare : 11
*     Naval patrols : the Navy will now assist the Air Force in patrolling Korean territory.
Diplomacy
*     Iceland : We would like to donate 5 patrol crafts and 2 helicopters. Also, we would like to donate some decommissioned frigates. 2 for $2,500.
*     USA : Wanna do a military exercise called “Cope Asia”?
*     Taiwan, Japan, and China : Want to create the East Asian Medical Organization or EAMO? Our goals are cure for Ebola (for Africa), a vaccine or cure to yellow fever (for Panama), and a nutrition program for countries with famine, drought, or malnutritioned people. 
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===2030===
=== 2030 Q1===
Riots in Rio de Janeiro occur, the reason for this is unknown. Main sections of the riot seem to take place in the slums, leading some officials to believe it is simply "the poor being poor", and with elections drawing near, they are acting up. First major Brazilian Zalgo outbreak. Currently limited to the slums of Rio de Janeiro, but will spread if left unchecked.
New York continues to be on lockdown since the 2029 Riots last year.
The amount of searches for the word "Zalgo" rises by 427%.
Panama announces the temporary closure of the Panama Canal due to a mechanical error in the locking gates from the earthquake.
Taiwan and Japan accept the Korean proposal. China says they will accept on the condition Taiwan is not in the organisation.
Malian and Brazilian forces periodically storm terrorist strongholds and Zalgo instances.
DNA analysis confirms that the body indeed was Kevin Spacey, but showed no change in organ count or structure.
Several patients in coma in ZCP Centers wake up, attacking staff in the vicinity. Although now contained in a ward, 12 staff have been confirmed to have been bitten, with 2 dead. Meanwhile a reanimation is recorded in the CRC in America, however no staff were active at the time to respond immediately. The instance is found in a nearby forest and neutralized.
No leads on how the Zalgo spread to Africa, but experts believe it was carried by trade ships transiting the Panama Canal.
Attempts to isolate the virus from the blood by multiple parties is revealed to be very tedious, as there is an unusually high amount of contaminants within the blood samples.
Zalgo sightings explode worldwide, with documented cases in France, Turkey, Mozambique, Egypt and Sri Lanka. These nations are now aware of the Zalgo threat.
====Korea====
* Government: Republic. Elections are being held. Votes will close at 2030 Q2. Current winning Party is the Federalist Party of Korea. The government decides to also send troops to Mali. 200 volunteers are sent. The Greater Korean City project is now starting.
* Economy: We invest into Brazil, Panama, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka. GDP increases by 2.1% GDP rises from $1.75 to 2.5 trillion.
* List of districts GDP and GDP per capita :
Western Korea - $800 billion - $52,100 (LC : Incheon)
Northern Korea -$600 billion - $48,595 (LC : Northern United Korean City/Pyongyang)
Southern Korea - $300 billion - $69,295 (LC : Southern United Korea City/Seoul)
Eastern Korea - $80 billion - $74,395 (LC : Busan)
* Military
* Ground Forces
* Active troops : 2,627,500
* Reserve troops : 3,202,250
* Tanks : 3,389
* AFV : 2,710
* SPG : 2,055
* Towed Artillery : 5,374
* MLRS : 234
* Joint Exercises with the Japan, Taiwan, and Brazil : to combat a sudden outbreak of a disease, we conduct joint military exercises to prepare for the worst to come.
* Quarantine Zones : The government quarantined people from Panama to prevent the spread of Yellow Fever.
* Air Force
* Fighters : 426
* Attack : 448
* Transport : 348
* Trainer : 273
* Attack helicopters : 129
* Aerial Patrols : the Air Force still conducts aerial patrols.
* Commissioning of the IAH : the IAH Program has now finished. The new attack helicopter called “Hovering Guardian” will be commissioned. 120 have been ordered.
* Spy Reports : 2 spies have heard of a “ZCP” group. Not sure. Spies in Brazil have blended in with normal military personnel.
* Navy
* Aircraft Carrier : 2
* Frigates : 23
* Destroyers : 24
* Corvettes : 21
* Submarines : 25
* Patrol vessels : 70
* Mine warfare : 11
* Naval patrols : the Navy will now assist the Air Force in patrolling Korean territory.
Diplomacy
* China : How about we have separate branches for the EAMO? The 1st Medical Research Division will include China and Japan while the 2nd Medical Research Division will compose of Taiwan and Korea? Sounds good?
* Mali : We hope that the volunteers would help in your anti-terrorist operations.
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**The city of Rio de Janeiro is put under lockdown due to the emergency in the slums. The airport is closed and the metropolitan area is locked from access. Favelas and surrounding areas are declared quarantine no-go zones. People think it's "overkill", since they're only riots.
**A speech os prepared to tell the population about the Zalgos in the next months, as the people involved in the Zalgo case decide by unanimity that secrecy is harming efforts. (If anyone want to object *looking at USA*, this is the time).
*Military:
**Crisis in Rio
***Protestors are found to have support from heavily armed drug lords. Army deployed in the streets to control the situation. Actually, drug lords and army officers agree to work together to fight the Zalgos, as it's a common interest to keep the slums alive.
***Soldiers can shoot on sight anyone who does not obey orders. Special Forces map the affected areas and divide them in three kinds of zones: Green zones (little to no Zalgos, rescue civilians immediately), Red zones (higher Zalgo presence, rescued civilians must undergo quarantine) and Black zones (very high Zalgo presence, shoot on sight, regardless of being civilian or infected).
***A buffer zone is created surrounding the affected slums. Civilians are evacuated and forbidden to access an area 300m from the affected slums.
***Helicopters are deployed to watch the situation from above and support ground units.
***Any kind of media is stopped from getting into the combat zones due to the danger of leaking info and spreading the infection.
*Economy:
**Economy starts to decline as trade suffers from indirect consequences of Zalgo, like the crisis in US and the closing of the Panama Canal, but korean investments are welcomed and slow down the decline.
*Diplomacy:
**After some successful missions, the peacekeeping troops are recalled from Mali with Zalgo instances and documentation on their behavior patterns.
**Icelandic scientists are welcomed in the Zalgo research program.
**Counter intelligence starts to act, trying to discover how Korea found out that we have Zalgo.
**We call for an emergency UNSC meeting to create a global plan to stop the Zalgos, as they spread further and further every month. We also want the declassification of the case.
*Zalgo Research and Combat (ICEZ):
**Officers scramble trying to find out how the slums in Rio became infected. Everyone is surprised, since we all expected it to come from the North. The two strongest theories are that Zalgos came with trade ships or from the airport. Both the port and airport in Rio are closed.
**New instances are captured from Mali and Rio.
**Safety measures keep being enforced, as staff are now aware that sudden reanimation may occur. Some captured Zalgos are subjected to brain scan looking for unusual activity.
**Teams give up to study infected blood due to contamination. Instead, they try to analyze brain tissue from the dead Zalgo and skin samples. Two teams try to find out what is contaminating the blood. Each team now recieves $1.2M.
**Elicont protocol is prepared to be executed, if Zalgos get out of control:
***Martial law and State of Exception will be declared.
***Quarantine zones in healthy areas will be created.
***The population will be instructed to stay away from Zalgos, and shooting them with concealed weapons will be encouraged.
***The government will be evacuated to Fernando de Noronha if Brasília gets compromised.
====United States of America====
*Government
**Zalgogate (April 2029-March 2030): It concludes on March.
**Pressure: Riots and protests continue to break out in New York in January and February alone. However that only led to the spread of various riots of conspiracists nationwide, from Atlanta, Orlando and Philadelphia to San Francisco, Portland and Los Angeles, hundred thousands have participated and led to massive property damage in this quarter alone which costs around US$2.3 billion, along with the arrest of ten thousands, thousands of injuries and dozens of deaths from the police. The government is now fully pressured to reveal the truth as a result and by mid-February, it was clear that the President will give out a speech from the White House scheduled on 28th February.
**Public Speech (28th February 2030): On 28th February, a shocking decision was made by President Rubio publicly. He promises that this is not intentionally giving out panic but to inform that it is now time that the threat must be shown to the public now and that he will allow full declassification of documents by his orders at April (while allowing documents leaked, supported by many officials right now due to panic in New York continuing to accumulate in numbers. Censorship over the Zalgo threat will also cease as the government admits that they played a role in this.
***PRESIDENT RUBIO: This is the President speaking to the people of the United States. We are sincerely sorry for the total loss of any loved ones that were lost to something that was truly horrifying. I'm sure that you want to know why your own family or friends were missing for months now. You see, there was a threat lurking last year and reported sightings that you might know but we covered it up because we believe that we should not introduce more panic or fear into the common population. The documents that were leaked? They were not a hoax like we told you few months ago, they are classified documents but was given out to someone who was unfit to power. I know this is truly shocking to all of you but the Zalgo myth that has gained attention over the past two years is real as it gets. Now, rioting is not a solution to the end of these monstrosities and dividing ourselves will not do the same as well, it will only incur more panic and the spread of this virus elsewhere. We must unite together and make a huge decision to stop the threat. This is how America is going to work from now on. Let us fight together until we die of this threat. Thank you.
**Security Enhancement Act of 2030: Security within the CIA is quickly enhanced with the government becoming even more vigilant after two individual leaks last year. A suspicion of Korean workers working towards a leak despite plans to declassify almost all of the research and sightings in April had led to arrests of 91 agents that work for CIA, with most of them being Asian-American. Counterintelligence agents are also deployed to do multiple tests and fluency against all arrested agents. (NPC response needed to see if some are "found guilty")
**State of emergency is declared across three states (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut) as it isn't just limited to just New York City now.
**Case of Hughes: Robert Hughes and his own family are no longer under house arrest after about a year. He will be supervised however for about two more years in a controversial decision. The court has also decided to lay off the case entirely on 7th March 2030 in an unanimous decision that the United States had fully admitted to hiding the fact that Zalgos exist and live among humans.
**Emergency Plan to Escape: You may hear about DEFCON being used frequently but there is another one called COGCON (never heard of it? Wendover Productions duh). In case the level is raised to level one once the threat began to enroach Washington DC, all staff of the White House, along with the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Cabinet, including the President will be relocated to confidential bunkers in which they will respond for the military. There will be time for preparations and once the pandemic is close enough, such as enroaching Baltimore or Alexandria, then evacuation will be necessary, armed by military personnel stationed at the White House that serve as guards of the President.
*Military
**Intervention
***Other operations: As the epidemic of Zalgos began to grow exponentially inside the United States with confirmed million cases, the ZCP ramps up it's strength and funding with the approved 2030 budget going to give out more cash to build better research bases and military personnel distinct from most publicly known miliary branches.
***Intervention in New York: The war against the Zalgo continue and the ZCP are resorted to killing one by one at long range as they have enough bodies to do sufficient research, however cleanup is sufficient and is mostly urgent for many cases. No-one is allowed to go in and out under this strict curfew and martial law imposed in New York City stll at this quarter of the year.
**Alleged cases spotted around New York City: "This reminds me of Guillermo del Toro's book, The Strain," said a ZCP member upon discovering the fact that the epidemic had spread into the Old World even further than ever. As some managed to escape without the detection by the ZCP and most government/military officials stationed in the city and now that some had escaped before reanimation inside the city, they have most likely moved to the rest of the Tri-State Area and thus Connecticut, New York and New Jersey had declared state of emergencies publicly. However after the speech was declared by President Rubio, the state of emergency wasn't intended to become a panic situation but to give government some sort of power to keep the threat out and have extra protocols put in place in response.
**Mali: The ZCP continues to operate in Mali to continue tracing the origins on how Europe, Asia and Africa suddenly got infected with new profound Zalgos onboard.
*Research
**Yuri Watney/Subject #1: Kept there.
**Kevin Spacey: Kept there.
**Tracing the origins of the African Zalgo: We're still not over with tracing back the origin yet, we have to get even closer by hunting down the Zalgos of Mali to confirm if the Panama Canal is the one to blame. They turn to other West African countries to do a search on some ships that had arrived few months ago on the shores of the continent, although this would also raise the concern of other nations in West Africa of being "spied upon" but this is the only way to find if there are traces of this thick liquid or blood as most Zalgos have it. If it all fails, then we have to withdraw the plan on West Africa and instead find out where the pathogen came from.
**Infected/Reanimated: It seems that our bases are becoming more potent and infected by containing infected people that have being bitten inside the lab rather than being contained. They are still being observed for any behavioural changes while a move to set up more bases that are "sterile" and filled with new workers are underway, such as a base in Puerto Rico which is scheduled to be opened on April 2030. With events like this unfolding, our research have slowed down and that our study is almost finished. The question is now basically, is there a cure to this?
**Other bodies: Nothing happens.
*Economy
**Early 2030s economic depression: The stock market itself crashed entirely, the major financial hub of thr United States. New York has succumbed to multiple curfew and martial law. Unemployment is now soaring, the economy itself might not hold up for welfare anymore.
*Diplomacy
===2030 Q2===
Korea is yet accused of discrimination under the context of quarantine. Again.
No Zalgo sightings whatsoever. Nations reporting of sightings do not have news in this quarter.
The New York and Rio riots are reported to have ended abruptly.
The world seems darker these days, the nights longer, the sun setting too fast, but nothing is wrong.
ZCP and ICEZ forces are stunned to find their respective outbreak zones seemingly empty. There is a complete lack of Zalgo in the streets, and it is quiet. Any remaning evacuations are done most smoothly.
Reanimated Zalgos under observation are noted to have gained the ability to speak, or as some suggest have regained consciousness. One notable case is from the Brazilian Containment Center in the Amazon, where one reanimated instance is noted to have spoken to the nearest staff in fluent Portuguese, "Help me. I don't know where I am. What have I done? Why? What the hell is this? Please save me. Please save them. Please save us." Instance was noted to be crying black tears throughout the event. Other instances also begin crying black tears. It is not known how such a coordinated event has occured.
It is confirmed Zalgo instances have travelled from the Americas to Africa via shipping lanes. It is unknown how many countries are affected by transmission via this method.
3 Korean operatives are caught by the CIA.
China continues to decline any Korean proposal involving Taiwan whatsoever, even if not directly involved.
==== Korean Federation ====
*Government: Federal republic. The Greater Korean Project is now 10% finished. To avoid the similar problem we had, we lift the quarantine, but we implement more conditions to the Panamanian people to enter Korea. 
*Economy: We invest into Brazil, Panama, the Philippines, and the United States. We send $20 billion to Brazil and $50 billion to the US for economic aid. GDP increases by 2.6% GDP rises from $2.5 to 2.9 trillion.
List of districts GDP and GDP per capita : Western Korea - $820 billion - $53,550 (LC : Incheon)
Northern Korea -$710 billion - $49,250 (LC : Northern United Korean City/Pyongyang)
Southern Korea - $340 billion - $70,120 (LC : Southern United Korea City/Seoul)
Eastern Korea - $100 billion - $75,950 (LC : Busan)
*Military
*Ground Forces
*Active troops : 2,627,500 
*Reserve troops : 3,202,250
*Tanks : 3,415
*AFV : 2,710
*SPG : 2,055
*Towed Artillery : 5,374
*MLRS : 234
*Commissioning of 25 K3 Tanks : The new batch of K3 tanks, that will form the new 22nd Armoured Division, will now be commissioned after undergoing trials.
*K3 Variants : the K3 tanks shall now have variants suitable for any foreign customers. The K3A will be for Asian customers. It will have stronger armor, a faster engine, a 130mm smoothbore gun, and a remote controlled HMG. The K3E will be for European customers. It will have better speed and maneuverability, lighter weight, and 125mm smoothbore cannon, and a remote controlled HMG. The K3AF will be for Africa. It will include faster engines, advanced targeting systems, a remote controlled HMG, and a 120mm cannon for cheaper prices. The K3SN will be for American customers. It will include better targeting systems, lighter weight, a 130mm cannon, a remote controlled HMG, and better speed. We offer this variant to Brazil. Each tank would cost $120 million.
*Air Force 
*Fighters : 426
*Attack : 448
*Transport : 348
*Trainer : 273
*Attack helicopters : 129
*Aerial Patrols : the Air Force still conducts aerial patrols.
*Spy Reports : We ask the CIA to release the Korean operatives. We tell them that no more spies will be sent. The spies in Brazil have started gathering more info about their situation. 
*Navy
*Aircraft Carrier : 2
*Frigates : 23
*Destroyers : 24
*Corvettes : 21
*Submarines : 25
*Patrol vessels : 70
*Mine warfare : 11
*Naval patrols : the Navy will now assist the Air Force in patrolling Korean territory.
*INGAT Program or Indigenous Naval Gun and Torpedo Program : the ROK Navy has decided to create a better naval gun and torpedo. The naval gun will have a range of 25km while the torpedo can go 250 kph after being launched. A naval railgun is also being considered. Budget for this is $350 million.
*Diplomacy
*China : Sorry, but it we need Taiwan.
*US : We would like to help you in your recent economic crash. We will try to help you recover.
*Brazil : We will also like to help you in your economic crash. We offer 120 K3SN tanks for $900 million.
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**Jair Bolsonaro makes a public speech adressing the Zalgos, following the example of USA. In it, he states that all information about Zalgos are real, and the attempts of saying otherwise were staged to avoid panic. He also explained that the riots in Rio were not riots, but a Zalgo outbreak, now controlled and neutralized. Bolsonaro finished by saying that Brazil is doing everything it can to ensure the safety for its people, and that, together, brazilians will never let the Zalgos pose an existential threat to our country.
**The reactions to the speech were mixed. Many people panicked, and Rio de Janeiro suffered a massive drop in tourism. For that, ICEZ made a card instructing people on how to spot Zalgos and assuring them that the Zalgos are under control and will not become an epidemy.
**To prove the outbreak in Rio was controlled, the Army made a video tour in the favelas showing empty streets, and no signs of Zalgo. This made the people calmer even though nobody knows why or how the Zalgos disappeared, but nobody is telling that to the people, obviously.
**Parties nominate their candidacts to the elections in 2030 Q4. Bolsonaro's approval sharply increased after the Zalgo speech because, according to electors, "he saved us from these hellish zombies". Christian parties also have an increase of popularity.
*Military:
**The slums affected by Zalgo are still closed and occupied. Lockdown is lifted, but the port and airport are still closed.
**More battalions are moved north to patrol the Amazon and avoid Zalgos from crossing the borders.
**Armed Forces still on high alert, even with the misterious disappearance of Zalgos from Rio de Janeiro.
**The Navy with foreign investments resumes the building of the Aircraft Carrier, which was going slow for two years now. Expected to finish in early 2031.
*Economy:
**Rio de Janeiro suffers an economic crisis after the Zalgo outbreak. Around 200 thousand people left the city, and tourism reduced in 89%. State and federal funds are sent to aid it. The media is paid to show Rio as a completely safe place, and the slums as Zalgo-free.
*Diplomacy:
**Venezuela: This is a mistake, Brazil has no bases in venezuelan territory. They are probably guerrillas. You are welcomed in our research program.
**Korea:: We don't want to spend so much money modernizing our tank fleet. We don't even want to modernize it in first place.
**We're looking for a modern carrier-capable multirole fighter fleet to replace the current one.
*Zalgo Combat and Research (ICEZ):
**Everybody is confused on how or why the Zalgos disappeared in Rio de Janeiro. Heavily escorted researchers look for any way they must have left (land, underground, air, sea or somewhere they may be hiding). We tell the people it's because we won the fight.
**Several instances vocalize out of nowhere. All the sounds are recorded, noted and studied. The most notable one was by Z-12, captured in Rio: "Help me. I don't know where I am. What have I done? Why? What the hell is this? Please save me. Please save them. Please save us.". Debates were sparked. Some scientists defend they're conscious and should be treated as humans. Others say he's actually warning us, not asking for pity. Others say they're alive but hallucinating. One doctor is arrested for trying to free the instance.
**The vocalization issue leads to new study strategies:
***Instances who speak must be under frequent brain activity scan.
***Doctors must try to talk with Zalgo instances whenever it's possible and discover anything they can. Audio recordings mandatory.
***Zalgos that talked cannot undergo inhumane treatment.
***Afraid of new reanimations, captured Zalgos are separated in three categories, each in a different lab: Dead, Alive, and Killed after Reanimation.
**Brain and skin tissues from confirmed dead Zalgos are still being analyzed, looking for pathogens. Some teams try to understand why blood samples are so contaminated. Budget increases to $1.3M per team.
**Even if it's still Autumn, daylight time is comparable to Winter. Officers laugh when a relation with Zalgos is brought up, and the observation is sent to the Space Research National Institute.
====United States of America====
*Government
**Midterm Preparations: The 2030 US midterms are scheduled on November (2030 Q4) and it is expected that the Republicans could lose some seats once again like in the 2018 midterms in the House of Representatives and the Senate due to a political crisis that had unfolded last year.
**Declassification of Documents (April 2030): All sightings are being ordered to slowly be declassified in order to reveal some truth into it, but some really sensitive information such as the research base coordinates and information regarding to some of the Zalgos that were kept there is still locked away for many reasons, one of them is that they could expose their locations publicly and we would be forced to remove all of the operations as if they don't exist so they have to carefully choose which documents that are not so sensitive.
**Keeping a vigilant eye: Although the public think that it's over after the public were told that there were no more sightings, the US government is one of the most sceptical governments regarding to the Zalgo attacks and sightings but these sightings have made them convinced that the public are now believing that they are gone entirely. Not all of them, the United States' government and military has to remain very vigilant about the sudden disappearance as they can't just disappear for good. The proof was that the sun is setting a bit faster than expected, but it could be just a coincidence after the disappearance and don't affect anything just yet.
**New York, New Jersey and Connecticut retains their state of emergency status for about 180 more days as uncertainty began to grow after such disappearance. Many think this is over but actually it gets even worse as the United States called for everyone to be vigilant and not being submissive and conclude that it isn't over yet...
*Military
**Intervention
***New York and the Tri-State Area: Operations for the ZCP are reduced significantly in the Tri-State Area after being ordered that the Zalgos seem to have disappeared and thus after there were reports about it, the remaining healthy people were evacuated at this quarter to other places in refugee centres or if they feel infected they are either being taken into interrogation (which was secretly moving them to other research bases such as CRC and ARMB, soon to also include PRRC [Puerto Rican Research Center]). ZCP agents and soldiers are ordered to be vigilant, instead of being distracted and be relieved of their tasks and that they could emerge anytime soon even if they are hiding for so long unnaturally for their own reasons. Thus only few hundred are patrolled rather than thousands previously to keep out an eye.
**They can't disappear: The President is sure that it didn't happen all of a sudden. Although much of the area outside of the Tri-State Area is reduced by 90%, the US President still wanted the reserve personnel to be trained and be on the lookout and not be deceived that they vanished and that it's a relief. All military personnel of the ZCP branch are to be continuously train for the worst as a result, for more information, see New York and the Tri-State Area, which is above.
**Mali: The military forces (secretly the ZCP) have withdrawn after "dealing with stuff" in the nation of Mali, which isn't really specified but most likely terrorists.
*Research
**Captives: Nothing happens to them, apart from trying to find out if they suddenly reanimate somehow and if decay continues to worsen, especially Yuri Watney, where her body continues to lie for almost two years straight. Zac Golding and Kevin Spacey, the same thing. However for those who supposedly regained consciousness, especially those that have being captured are being closely watched, for more information of the conscious question, see three rows below.
**Other bodies: They will be burnt or be put into storage below still.
**Origins: After withdrawing from Mali and found out that ships re to blame for the arrival to nations that are to the east for the Atlantic, the ZCP established another branch to find the origin of the pathogen which doesn't budge at all in making a breakthrough, although they decide that removing the thick liquid and then containing it in a tight container would make it possible to extract the pathogen.
**Are the Zalgos conscious?: Some of the live subjects continue to live and have some sort of consciousness once again. If they could speak then they have to be really careful as they could retaliate out of all sorts. To the US President, the live subjects that have consciousness is "truly terrifying" and that the ZCP researchers are to remain careful about future development. Researchers theorise that if they have regained consciousness, there must be some activity in the brain that has being reactivated somehow but testing on a dead subject won't help potentially.
*Economy
**Early 2030s economic depression: It is finally taken care of or so. Although the rise of automation back in the 2020s is truly horrifying for the unemployed as old jobs vanish, the United States wants to create new jobs for the unemployed such as encouraging to break down the stereotypical lines and encourage males to take on nursing for one. However some on the left including the Democrats called for a new system "to sustain poverty" called the universal basic income in which a person can earn money off the government to sustain themselves but due to uncertainty of the US' future, it can't be pressed on.
*Diplomacy
**Venezuela: We don't allow you join NATO that quickly. You have to go through a full process that would take years, it's not simple as asking something and then someone accepts it.
**Korea: We don't trust you a lot after conducting xenophobic acts of closing borders and thus your own agents remain incarcerated for five years for treason. And we order you not to send any more spies at once and withdraw all of them within 90 days before we can release them and make a promise not to do anything about it.
====Republic of Venezuela====
*Government:
**Recuperation: After more than 10 years of crisis, Venezuela recovered from the collapse after the presidential elections of 2018. Then, when Maduro lost power, Venezuela, albeit slowly, was able to recover from the impending economic collapse. Now, Venezuela is an economically stable country again.
**Penalization of the Zalgo: It was decreed, that anyone who contains the Zalgo, will be immediately sent to an area of extreme quarantine, which will be monitored 24 hours a day. Although most people did not like this deal, they could not do anything, since the so-called 'Seekers' had firearms and would shoot them without thinking twice to anyone who comes in contact.
**Purgation of the Zalgos: [Secret] All the captured Zalgos will be sent to quarantine, and these will be shot and the bodies will be sent to laboratories for examination.
*Cuerpo de Investagion del Zalgo (Research Body of the Zalgo): 
**We have hunted 60% of Zalgos in the country. We are continuing the search and execution under orders of [Deletion] and of the [Deleted] in order to eradicate this threat that is endangering our nation.
*Economy: Our economy has been restructured and stabilized with not only the eradication of corruption, but also with the dollarization of the country and oil.
*Military:
**Analytics: 42,000 Active troops, 218,000 20,000 Reserves, 1,040 420 Tanks, 2,600 1,700 AFVs, 640 210 Pieces of Artillery, 320 40 Fighters, 40 20 Bombers, 50 Ships, 31,200 25,000 Sailors (3,200 Marines).
**Fight Against Zalgo: [Classified, Level 4 Required to Enter]
**Fight in Amazonas: We sent 200 Guerrillas, to attack some small Brazilian Zalgos posts, and thus, expel them from our nation. The fighting has intensified and we have been able to Eradicate expelling the Brazilian Zalgos troops.
*Diplomacy:
**China: We negates the pass of Chinese people to our country.
**USA: Oil! Here we go! Venezuela sell some oil to USA. We tries to join the NATO
**Brazil: [Secret Message] We can make an union against Zalgos? Consider it [End of the Message].
===2030 Q3===
With news of the Zalgo becoming public, the people begin having split opinions. Some say it is the end of days, some say it's the next step in evolution, some say they don't give a shit.
Zalgo sightings return, but slowly. Confirmed sightings in Russia, Korea, Australia, Germany, Egypt, Iran, Sri Lanka and China.
The international body of the Zalgo Foundation, or simplified to the Foundation, is formed to study the Zalgo while intended to be in co-operation with existing entities such as the ICEZ or ZCP. A map of current member states is to be released soon. The United States and Brazil are invited to join.
The Brazilian Space Research National Institute confirms that the average amount of sunlight the Earth is getting has decreased very slightly. They do not know why. It is recommended this is brought to the international council.
Instances of Zalgos that vocalize are under study. Researchers have had some progress communicating with the instances, although majority of them just repeat cries for help and similar laments. Those that provide information do not correlate with the individual in question. In one American base, a known drug addict who was noted to drop out of school began mumbling about hyperzoonotic transfer, while another instance in Brazil was noted to reference a natural disaster and interplanetary bombardment.
ZCP forces discover high concentrations of black dust in quarantine zones, a discovery also found in the Brazilian slums. Agents have turned the idea that the Zalgos turned to dust into a running joke that is not understood by anyone outside the organization.
One very unique Zalgo vocalization case in a ZCP Site occurs. "We had to leave. It was coming. My family was there. I could not save them all. My children are dust. But it is the only way to come back. I must save them all." It should be noted the instance was a 13 year old girl.
A new microsatellite is discovered orbiting the Moon. It is only 3 meters in diameter and is not very reflective, which is probably why humanity never discovered it earlier.
Just a reminder, if the United States experiences economic depression, pretty much every other nation follows.
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**Zalgos are the most debated topic during the election race, overshadowing the economic problems. While the opposition tries to blame the government for allowing Zalgos to reach Rio de Janeiro, Bolsonaro declassifies documents about operations in the Amazon and the borders, showing that he did all he could to stop the infection and reinforcing his image as the savior. The documents are incomplete and manipulated for OPSEC and to make him look better. Bolsonaro holds 59% of the voting intention.
**A program is started in Rio to settle the people evacuated from the slums, as they're still closed. People before living in bad conditions are placed in new regular settlements. Drug traffic suffers badly with that, and hundreds desert from their factions due to the sharp decline in business.
**Firearms sale and demand for shooting courses increase all over the country due to Zalgo. People feel somewhat safer with guns.
*Military:
**Patrols in the Amazon keep going. Slums in Rio de Janeiro remain occupied and closed to everyone but authorized staff and military force.
**The Navy looks for a partnership with the russian Sukhoi to purchase carrier-capable fighters to the new Aircraft Carrier.
**Zalgo-related drills are cancelled due to lack of funding.
*Economy:
**The crisis in USA starts to affect Brazil. Trade with China intensifies to try to shield the economy, which does not work.
**Machinery exports to Mercosur decline, so producers look for partnerships with developping economies in Sub-Saharian Africa and Southeast Asia.
*Diplomacy:
**Diplomats question UN about what is going on in Russia.
**A korean agent is found infiltrated in the research complex in the Amazon. He is arrested, personnel are investigated to spot more spies and security scrambles to find out how he got in. We demand explanations from Korea.
**ICEZ accepts to be part of the Zalgo Foundation, and will now cooperate and share researches with the Foundation. (ICEZ tab is now accessible to Zalgo Foundation members, but not to the general population)
**The observations about reduced daylight time are sent to the competent international organisations. The Space Research National Institute also questions them about the object spotted in the moon. One scientist theorizes that these are correlated.
*Zalgo Combat and Research (ICEZ)
**Most recorded vocalizations are similar cries and laments. Talks with instances are very confusing and do not provide solid information about the individual. Instead, they're about disconnected events, such as a natural disaster and interplanetary bombings (Log 19-001, Recorded by Z-19, 12/08/2030).
***Log 19-001 is carefully analyzed by researchers. As no vocalization was related to the instance, but to larger events, they try to connect the data from talks with historical or modern events. Theories with the earthquake in Panama or the reduced daylight time are created, but not taken very seriously.
**Black dust is found to be everywhere in the slums affected by Zalgo, mostly where the Zalgo presence was high. The dust is collected and sent to analysis. Many think the Zalgos became dust, so one of the focuses is trying to find out what the dust is made of. Memes about "Zalgo Powder" spam the phones of ICEZ personnel, leading to a ban on sharing Zalgo Powder memes in serious research Whatsapp groups. This only intensifies the jokes.
**Captured instances are not found pulverized. Brain activity scan and attempts to talk to Zalgos continue. Some teams keep analyzing brain and skin samples, looking for a pathogen, and others analyze infected blood, trying to find out why Zalgo blood has so much contaminants, and what are those contaminants. Each team now recieves $1.5M.
**Two Killed-After-Reanimation class instances are dissected and its organs are individually analyzed, looking for any abnormality or anomaly.
**Vocalizing instances are divided in pairs and left alone in rooms with hidden cameras and microphones. Personnel watch for any kind of interaction between them, either physical or communicative. Talks between instances must be recorded and analyzed.
====United States of America====
*Government
**Other Problems: There isn't much to say about any political changes of this quarter as political drama itself seems to end at this point after a year and a half of chaos, asides the closeness of the 2030 midterms. The US government however still remain heavily vigilant and had started reintroducing people into New York City once again after full evacuations were made. However black dust remains a big issue and a mystery as the ZCP forces found high concentrations of such matter in a highly quarantined part of the city (see research).
*Military:
**Military budget slashed, once again: Due to the Congress seeing another interest in launching another mission to space, the military budget is reduced very slightly (just about 5%) to dedicate into launching another mission to Mars and also sending up an unknown satellite similar to the Zuma satellite project back in 2018 but their actual goal is to analyse the mystery of these "quick sunsets" that has been happening for about almost half the year now. 
*Research
**Black dust: Black dust is analysed by the ZCP's research base if it contains pathogen and will also be tested for numerous reasons, if it be blown away at great distances (which will be done at controlled conditions), containing human DNA (if the theory of Zalgos turning into dust was true) or if it is spread by Zalgos.
**Zalgo Consciousness Protocol: Due to one of the subjects inside a ZCP base saying "We had to leave. It was coming. My family was there. I could not save them all. My children are dust. But it is the only way to come back. I must save them all." It was from a girl who said it unusually and then in one of the same ZCP base, one was mumbling about hyperzoonotic transfer which no-one would ever understand but scientists knew that they were conscious somehow and have talked, new rules have been set up to all Zalgos. All Zalgos who have spoken or mumbled are taken into separate rooms and be recorded with, which they have to be accompanied by one ZCP soldier and researcher who must record every voicing or mumbling while asking questions. Then they will be taken into research and piece out what they are actually trying to say and if they are consistent. Although it may be inconsistent at that time, the more voices, the more likely that they can eventually see a better image of what they claim to be "fleeing from".
**Space operations: The unusual quick sunsets have led to the interest of the President's attempt to look up to the stars, including Mars. Some of the military budget was slashed once again to be redirected to fund towards a satellite in analysing the quick sunsets and what may cause it. If so, then could it be communicated somehow through any variant of language? Also a manned mission to Mars was about to be raised as well, but sceptics are worried about NASA putting a man to Mars for many reasons - although they will only include researchers and soldiers in the field and not civilians, perhaps something was quite behind that was long lost. They slated an early 2032 landing date in a secret deal. But rushing a mission is considered a big risk and failing it would be a huge waste of funded money being made over the next two years of creating a lander and selecting perfect candidates.
*Economy
**Early 2030s economic depression: An economic depression is starting to recover but many expect the recovery to take long and for unemployment, probably it'll remain at 10% despite a decline in such unemployment that was being contributed every month from 15.4% to 14.3% in six months from creating newer jobs. This was due to the rise of automation that has increasingly being adopted and that struggling to create new jobs on different sectors will be a long-term problem. It would've been around 15% if the infected hadn't reduced the unemployment rate even further (the infected/Zalgos don't count as people anymore) and that would've posed a big threat without any sort of universal basic income in place.
*Diplomacy
**Korea: When you overreact, you deserve it.
**Zalgo Foundation: The United States has accepted membership and thus the ZCP has joined the Foundation and actually exposing most of their research data to other members as well.
====Korean Federation====
*Government: Federal republic. The government allows the creation of the AZT or Anti-Zalgo Team. They will undergo normal and elite training to ensure they survive any encounters. They will be heavily armed. Since we still have no data about the Zalgo, we equip them with normal weapons. They are ordered to shoot the head.
*Economy: We withdraw our investments in preparation for another Great Depression. GDP increases by 1% GDP increases from 2.5 trillion to 2.6 trillion.
**List of districts GDP and GDP per capita :
***Western Korea - $800 billion - $52,100 (LC : Incheon)
***Northern Korea -$600 billion - $48,595 (LC : Northern United Korean City/Pyongyang)
***Southern Korea - $300 billion - $69,295 (LC : Southern United Korea City/Seoul)
***Eastern Korea - $80 billion - $74,395 (LC : Busan)
*Military
**Ground Forces
***Active troops : 3,627,500
***Reserve troops : 2,202,250
***Tanks : 3,389
***AFV : 2,710
***SPG : 2,055
***Towed Artillery : 5,374
***MLRS : 234
***Activation of 1 Million Reserves : To combat the Zalgo threat, the Army activates 1 million reserves to fight against them.
***Creation of Zalgo Research Centers : Zalgo Research Centers shall be formed. Any captured Zalgo shall be brought to those centers for research.
***Operation Advance : the AZT has started an operation. All locations with spotted Zalgos are to be quarantined. Any Zalgos caught will either get k*illed or captured for research.
**Operation Threat : the Armed Forces will now start joint operations with each other. The Army has sent troops to capture or kill any Zalgos.
**Air Force
***Fighters : 426
***Attack : 448
***Transport : 348
***Trainer : 273
***Attack helicopters : 129
***Aerial Patrols : the Air Force still conducts aerial patrols.
***Operation Threat : The attack helicopters of the Air Force will assist the Army in combating Zalgos.
***Cancellation of the Fighter and Attack Helicopter Program : To save some money, the government has cancelled the programs. The programs will resume after the Zalgo Threat has been neutralized.
**Navy
***Aircraft Carrier : 2
***Frigates : 23
***Destroyers : 24
***Corvettes : 21
***Submarines : 25
***Patrol vessels : 70
***Mine warfare : 11
***Naval patrols : the Navy will now assist the Air Force in patrolling Korean territory.
***Cancellation of the INGAT Program Government also cancels the program to save money.
***Transportation of Marines to Jeju : the Navy is now transporting Marines and some AFVs to Jeju to prepare for any Zalgos appearing in Jeju Island.
*Diplomacy
**Mongolia : We invite you to EAMO.
**ASEAN : Want to work together?
**US : You’re right, damn it.
**Brazil : That spy just wanted to join the Brazilian Army, so we allowed him.
====Republic of Venezuela====
*Government:
**Riots in Caracas: After the disappearance of more than 10,000 people, the relatives of the Zalgos who were taken away, began to protest, demanding to see their relatives and that they return. For the few people, we let them continue with the protests.
**Investigation of the Zalgos: We started the investigation of the Zalgos, doing tests and examining their behavior. There is a very special Zalgo, which we thought was a normal person, but really was one of Them. A-12, showed great intelligence and almost, we let him go, but when taking the samples, it turned out to be one of them.
***A-12 is still under great investigation, he demands to leave, demands water, demands food, among other needs. We think that if A-12 is not the only one that can seem to a normal person, the infection could spread faster, and more discreet than we think. A-12 continues under arduous investigation.
*RBZ (Research Body of Zalgo): We continues the capture and purgation of the Zalgos in Venezuela. Is more difficult found Zalgos, because the families hides with the Zalgos, and that becomes worst for us.
*Economy: We continue with our economic expansion, but due to the American crisis, we started to trade more with Russia,China and Mexico, increasing our economic growth a little more.
*Military: 
**Several armed groups of people, protecting the Zalgos, begin to open fire against our Seekers, so, we started, not only to hunt the Zalgos, but also to quarantine the resistant.
**We started the development of our own tank model, the T-97-F, this design is a derivative of the T-90 and we are developing it to counteract the weapon power of the great powers. Production will begin next year.
*Diplomacy: No much happens, we only increase our relationship with Brazil and continue the integration process with NATO.
===2030 Q4===
A-12 in Venezuela is just a random pleb. Samples were accidentally mismatched, leading to his incarceration at the base. Venezuela is no longer trusted to handle Zalgo samples.
Zalgo sightings return to normal. Turkey, Kazakhstan, the DRC, Austria, Finland and Japan are reporting sightings.
Venezuela is accused of using the Zalgo Crisis to eliminate political enemies after a video clip is released of operatives beating up and threatening a family under the pretense of them harboring a Zalgo, despite majority having vanished months back. Other instances include the subjugation of resistance movements by accusing them of being infected or sympathizing with Zalgos.
In an American base, an instance of Zalgo vocalization results in information retrieved correlating to gene banks, memory circuits and a rough description of the night sky approximately 4.2 billion years ago. "We are nearly finished. Our brightest stars are coming. The elite will resurrect us." is recorded from a Zalgo instance in his mid-40s, speaking in Chinese. It is noted that Chinese is his first language.
The micro-satellite found orbiting the Moon is announced to be a small asteroid. It is actually metallic, and seems to be quite complex. Dust samples collected from the satellite correlate to those found on the surface of Mars. It is too complex to be of natural formation as far as researchers are concerned.
Still no sign of Zalgos in the quarantine zones.
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**Bolsonaro wins a 4th term with 54% of the votes. While its supporters celebrate, the opposition calls that a "dictactorship, as we've been ruled for one single man for twelve years now".
**Oppositors organize protests against the elections in Brasília, saying they were rigged. The Justice investigates, but nothing has been found yet. When some protestors start to vandalize public property, the police is deployed and violently supressed them. No one was killed, but dozens were left injured. Opposition is socked, but supporters applaud.
**Carioca criminal factions brankupt, as the Rio slums remain empty and their drug trade schemes collapse. The police uses this opportunity and starts an intense manhunt to dismantle the factions in Rio de Janeiro.
*Military:
**Two men are shot dead without previous warning after trying to break into a closed slum in Rio de Janeiro. They're found to be american journalists trying to make an illegal documentary on Zalgos. Since they entered a well-marked shoot-on-sight area, the soldiers suffer no consequences. The journalists had footages from quarantine zones in NYC and interviews with unindentified sources. The material and bodies are sent to USA.
**The Navy purchases 26 MiG-29K from Russia to replace the outdated Skyhawk carrier-capable aircraft fleet.
*Economy:
**Unemployment rises, mostly on Rio de Janeiro with the downfall of tourism. People start moving from Rio to other cities, mostly São Paulo and other large cities in the state. Unemployed people are encouraged to volunteer into the Armed Forces, as they're not broken from the economic crisis.
*Diplomacy:
**Korea: This is the lamest excuse in the history of espionage. Two more korean spies are found infiltrated and are arrested. They're found to have used false documents pretending to be Army soldiers. The three korean spies are imprisioned and interrogated extensively so they inform us everything they leaked. After the interrogations, they're trialed for leakage of classified data and falsified documents and condemned to eleven years of prision. Extradition can be negotiated.
**Brazil condemns the attitudes of Venezuela about the Zalgos. We offer asylum to prosecuted opposition members. At the same time, we analyze them to see if they're really infected with Zalgo. If an infected is found, they're sent to the research complex.
*Zalgo Combat and Research (ICEZ):
**Ongoing researches:
***Several teams analyze different infected tissues trying to find a pathogen.
***Two teams analyze infected blood, trying to find out why they're so contaminated.
***Zalgos left alone in rooms did not talk with each other as expected. They keep trying to make them interact.
***Vocalizations are still being recorded and analyzed, but nothing that made sense was found yet.
***Alive and dead Zalgos undergo brain activity scan to see what regions of the brain are still active, and if there's any difference from a healthy human.
***Two dead Zalgos are dissecated and its organs are compared to healthy organs, looking for any abnormality.
***The Zalgo dust is still being analyzed for organic matter and for its composition.
***Hidden from the Foundation and the public, ICEZ takes life prisoners to the complex and injects them Zalgo blood. Researchers watch closely their health and checks on them every hour to detect what was left unnoticed in previous Zalgo infection processes.
***Each research team now recieves $1.5M.
**The new data about the Moon object convinces a considerable part of ICEZ officers that we're dealing with more than a simple disease, since everything (the dust, the reduced days, the strange earthquake in Panama and now that martian-soil-made object too complex to be natural) happened more or less at the same time. They try to relate the vocalizations, mostly the one about Space and Astronomy, with the object. ICEZ brings up to the Foundation the hypothesis of the object being created by an alien lifeform, backed up by the speculations and observations made above.
====United States of America====
*Government
**A controversial TV series: The controversial TV show developed by executive producer Ollie Roland, which appeared on newslines about a year ago is about to hit television by February 2031 and especially on stream. Ollie Roland was watched in the past but now he is about to be risked again by the government after he was about to use more sensitive information being disclosed while there was more information on the more generalised sightings in the past. However later in December after a full search by agents, it seems that he doesn't possess any sensitive information about the Zalgo and other observed events and seem to be heading towards a more spiritualist zone, but due to the nature of trying to make a Zalgo series based off true events will be closely watched for, if the first episode that aired was deem to be too sensitive then it'll be taken down and full arrests will be warranted for.
**2030 midterm elections: The 2030 midterm elections saw the Republican-majority Congress being lost to the Democrats, especially in the House of Representatives, but the Republicans were able to hold the Senate with a margin of three seats out of 102 seats after losing few of these seats to the Democrats.
*Military: Nothing significant happens to the military except unusual increase in the quarantine zone when it comes to resettlement of people into New York City.
*Economy
**Early 2030s economic recession: We're recovering but unemployment is still dropping quite slowly.
*Research
**Do Zalgo age?: The ultimate question is if the Zalgo could age after somehow becoming infected or if they don't age and they could be the secret "gift" to immortality but they could take the risk. All Zalgos that have talked and those that are dead are being observed and are to be taken skin samples and comparing them about one month from each sample to determine if a Zalgo ages normally, quicker than usual or slowing down or perhaps never age at all.
**Black dust: We still have to analyse it, we've gathered a lot of samples from this and we must be sure that they have human DNA and have a presence of the pathogen that is present on the blood. The team that had analysed it are given even more funding from the ZCP and the government to further investigate how Zalgo had already turned to dust all of a sudden. Could it be because of this metallic satellite that is orbiting the Moon and that they are connected some way? An abduction perhaps? But the Zalgo won't make any sense still. They keep thinking about something coming for them.
**Zalgo Consciousness Protocol: The Zalgo Conscious Protocol continues to be used. They are still being recorded of and are attempting to have one of the Zalgos with consciousness talk with another rather than making up warning signs. Some propose that they might be fearing for abduction after a mysterious satellite on the Moon just suddenly became discovered. One of the men who is Chinese had said something about being "nearly finished" and related to genetic banks and memory circuits. They seem to be connected to these random events like black dust and the unexplained darkness and perhaps the asteroid itself might be approaching Earth closely. NASA makes sure that the satellite is observing that asteroid vigilantly if it changes anything.
**Space research: NASA and the ZCP had continued to fund a proposed Martian manned mission which would be launched in early 2032 in a rushed fashion despite taking up a steady rate of building up the lander and the rocket they need to put a man on Mars rather than on the Moon. Some demanded the scheduled to be reduced to late 2031 (mainly due to the theory of connection that Mars has a part to the Zalgo thing) as these events are slowly coming out into play but they've taken so much risks over the late 2020s and early 2030s that they have to take precautions. Meanwhile the launched satellite that belongs to NASA few months ago continues to observe if the asteroid has changed in any way and also sending in another lander that might confirm what was on there. If it is connected to the things strangely happening that the Zalgos are saying then we're going to sure.
*Diplomacy
====Korean Federation====
*Government
** Capture of Zalgos : The AZT has captured 2 specimens. They have been sent to the ZRCs. 
** Encouragement to join the Armed Forces : The Government would like to deal with this Zalgo problem quickly. The age to join the army has been lowered to 16.
** Greater Korean City : It is 30% finished.
*Economy
** New currency : The South Korean won shall no longer be the Korean currency. It will now be the Korean Federal dollar.
*Military
** Expansion of the AZT : The AZT will now be expanded. Soldiers from the special forces teams will be recruited.
* Diplomacy
** Brazil : We sent those spies to investigate on your Zalgo problem or even if there is a problem there. Kindly let them go back to Korea and we shall withdraw our spies and pay $1 million as an apology.
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===2031===
===2031 Q1===
Syria has closed its borders. They cite the fear of spread of infection from Turkey, prompting Kurdistan and Iraq to do the same.
Zalgo sightings return to normal in the Americas, but none are sighted in the New York or Rio quarantine zones.
The People's Republic of China launches a drone to inspect the micro-satellite, while also bringing along a Chinese flag, presumably to claim it. Within a week the government announces the satellite is now under Chinese occupation.
Relations between Korea and the US and Brazil grow cold. The espionage fiasco by the Asian state has been condemned by not only the US and Brazil, but China has weighed in on the subject as well, accusing the Korean government of infiltrating not only the American nations, but China itself. The validity of this claim is unknown.
Through months of analysis, it is confirmed Zalgo skin cells are laced with an unknown compound that delays decay, possibly contributing to discolouration. It is unknown to what scale the delay constitutes, but major theories place it at 0.75 to 0.2 times the standard decay rate. Preliminary experiments to transfer said compound to lab mice to test for prolonged life have failed, with the rats dying at a much faster rate.
Zalgo blood is found to have hundreds of amino acids, and what seems to be enzymes and proteins. It will take decades to analyze everything, even if the whole world started a decade ago.
Zalgo brain activity is similar to the standard, but some parts of the brain are more active than they should be, with others unused completely.
Zalgo dust is found to contain traces of human DNA, but they are severely damaged. Researchers have found samples of skin cells, bone marrow and soft tissue in the dust, but are microscopic and have endured extreme cellular damage.
Healthy subjects injected with Zalgo blood exhibit signs of infection, mainly initial lethargy, followed by aggression and black discharge from the eyes and mouth.
Three instances of Zalgo vocalization. The information is accessible to organizations under the Foundation. Access Audio Logs
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**Bolsonaro's fourth term inauguration on January 1st is marked by violent Black Bloc action and protests by the opposition in Brasília. The supporters of the president, who massed in the ceremony, reacted and firearms were used. Seven people died until the police was deployed to contain the situation. People now debate whether loosing gun control was a good idea.
*Military:
**The Navy finishes its aircraft carrier, named after Pedro II. This is the first brazilian-made carrier, and used modern technologies adquired overtime from France and America. It will be fully operational by June 2031, and will be used mostly for coast patrol.
**Around 100 thousand unemployed people volunteer to the Armed Forces and are accepted. Most of them are sent to support roles to improve the brazilian logistical capacity.
**Quarantine Zones in Rio slums remain closed, and reoccupation will not happen soon.
*Economy:
**One year after the outbreak in Rio de Janeiro, tourism starts to increase again during summer and the economy begins to slowly recover.
**Unemployment decreases with the Army offers. Trade with the US and China slowly stabilizes again.
*Diplomacy:
**The caught korean spies stay 90 days in prision before being sent back to Korea. Brazil accepts the apology and diplomatic relations with Korea go back to normal.
**We suggest China to join the Zalgo Foundation, as they would be of great contribution to the effort.
*Zalgo Combat and Research (ICEZ):
**Zalgo skin is found to have an unknown compound that slows down decay and probably causes the skin discolouration. Since decay is caused by microorganisms, scientists theorize and test skin cells to find a chemical that slows down bacteria or fungi enzyme action.
**A very high number of unknown amino acids is found in Zalgo blood. As separating and analyzing them would take too long, scientists decide it's not worth the effort and stop analyzing blood samples.
**Damaged human DNA, skin cells, bone marrow and soft tissue are found in the Zalgo dust. It is now confirmed that the Zalgos became dust, but everyone is puzzled on how it happened. Pieces of tissue that survived pulverization are analyzed with microscopes to identify what type of damage the cells endured.
**Zalgo brain activity patterns have some differences from healthy individuals. Scientists want to know if these differences are the cause to their comatose and aggressiveness.
**The black fluids coming out of the Zalgos' eyes and mouth are taken and tested to find a pathogen and a possible composition similarity to the dust.
**Teams are still trying to find a pathogen. Each team recieves $1.5M.
**Vocalizations are now classificated as the top priority of the ICEZ.
***The three recorded talks between subjects exponentially increases the worry among ICEZ members. To avoid panic, data about vocalizations are classified to lower personnel.
***China is invited to join the Foundation so we have access to data about the Moon object. We're now sure they have something to do with the Zalgos, taking in account their recorded vocalizations.
***The theory about an alien origin of the Zalgos is reinforced, as all the talks finished with "For Mars" in a strange voice. Brazil volunteers to contribute with NASA to the Mars mission.
***ICEZ officers scramble to create a theory about the Zalgos: We think they are, indeed, from alien origin (possibly martian), as they talk about "endemics", which we believe to be humans. Also, according to the logs (mostly 118263-32), Zalgos have consciousness and personalities, and each one is probably using the human body as a host. They also seem to be connected to someone or something bigger, since all the groups talked about similar topics even without knowing each other. Scientists are still trying to understand the correlation with genocide, salvation, planetary assimilation and genetic engineering, and every possibility sounds too terrifying to be true.
====Korean Federation====
*** Government
**** Abolishment of Communist, Right-wing, Anarchist, and Totalitarian parties : To avoid the creation of a communist, fascist, anarchist, or a dictatorial regime, the government has abolished all parties. The government favors the democratic, progressive, and federalist parties.
**** Lower Taxes, Cheaper Prices Program : The government has lowered taxes by 0.9% for the people.
**** Anti-Poverty and Unemployment Act : One of the new Federation Acts, the KFA 2032, has been put into action. All poor people and unemployed people will now get a job. They will undergo some tests to find the career suited for them.
**** Ban on Gas-powered Cars : The government will now be eco-friendly. All cars must be electric. Those who can’t afford an electric car will be given one.
**** Supporting Democratic Rebels in China : The government has funded democratic rebels and supplied them with military equipment. 100 grenade launchers will also be sent. We also support Tibetan rebels for their independence. We sent weapons and some body armor. We shall deny any claims made by China and blame illegal arm dealers.
*** Economy
**** Greater Korean City : An extra $12 billion has been spent for the project. It is 45% complete.
**** Ban on Gas-powered Cars : Each person that can’t afford a car will receive K$100,000.
*** Military
**** KSD Project : The Mark 1 system is now being tested.
**** AZT Expansion : Recently, the AZT has recruited 100 members.
**** Little Green Men : Inspired by Russians in Ukraine, we send disguised soldiers to China.
*** Zalgo Research Center
**** Captured Subject #1 : It is trying to get out of its prison. It’s crying a black substance. We shall taze it.
**** Captured Subject #2 : The staff noticed it can speak. It said “Let me out, please! I have a family. LET ME OUT NOW.” in Korean. Subject has been tazed.
*** Diplomacy
**** US and Brazil : All spies have been withdrawn.
**** Venezuela : We would like to establish relations. Private companies want to invest. We would also like to buy 50,000 barrels of oil for $10 million.
====United States of America====
*Government
**The Zalgos return: Zalgos return to normal situations. That's it and it's a big threat that the military had to respond once again.
**The Zalgo Television Controversy / Second Zalgogate (2nd January 2031-late February 2031): On mid-January 2031, the first episode of the television show closely resembling that of the Zalgo cases that were raised was released and it brought in government controversies. By early February, producer Roland was quickly arrested and the broadcaster was forced to hold off any further episodes after the first episode was aired onto television and this incurs the Second Zalgogate, although not as significant as the first one due to it revolving around the President. Roland will agree by late February to air all shows if they are being watched and that they will have full access to the series and cut sensitive parts that the government deems unsuitable for the general population.
**2032 Primaries: Well it's coming as the 2032 presidential election closes.
*Military: Nothing happens to the military, a lot. All research and other operations have being mainly focused on the ZCP with many military personnel now being freely offered by reducing the time of service in military from 3 to 4 years to just a year, which allows few thousand more into the organisation. With regular sightings happening again in the Americas, including the US itself, the ZCP is confident to get on newer samples and try to get rid of many Zalgos, giving them a larger sample of conscious Zalgos of something related to the Martian Theory.
*Research
**Zalgo research
***Dust: Turns out dust is from Zalgo remnants for some reason. But we're not done yet, we have to find out why Zalgo just disintegrated to dust all of a sudden by further theorising what it was. Perhaps observation of all zalgos will be the best choice to do this.
***Do Zalgo age? / Slowed skin decay analysis: It shows that Zalgos have slowed it's own decay but doesn't like to go through prolonging life of other living organisms. They decide that they should study what compound is making discolouration and if so, how to remove it and then move onto researching how to block the quick decay being shown, leading to slowed aging processes.
***Other corpses: Meh.
**The Martian Theory: The Zalgos were now seem to be cheering for something coming to Earth after unexplained darkness and unusual earthquakes in Panama, after talking about endemics which would be humans most likely as they were mainly infected though there were considerations of unusual shark activities in the past, they were most likely humans still. And they also said Mars in a very corrupted way that they are likely to come from Mars and scientists are still piecing together what they are trying to say, along with hired linguists and other interests of that field. With the Manned Martian mission, they might be able to prove the theory by sending in a group of scientists and military personnel to find out about life on Mars and that it isn't that what they saw through their own manned rovers.
**Space research / Manned Martian mission: Pushed the Martian landing back to late 2031 (so the scheduled launch will be Q4 2031 instead of Q1-Q2 2032) due to immense pressure and that the government will give NASA and ZCP heavy funding if they wind back time to schedule, thus a larger funding means that more will be made done. This concerned safety experts of both NASA and ZCP but they have already being silenced by orders that they have to push on the Martian Theory and that NASA had for a while prepared a landing to Mars for a very long time so it shouldn't be worth the risk as they had thought about the theories of landing on Mars for a long time. The crew will be announced on April 2032 and that the full shuttle and supplies will be launched on December 2031 in Cape Canaveral and make way for landing by February-March 2032. All records of this manned Martian mission must be kept only to only NASA, the government and ZCP knowledge, with the Federation as well so long they don't expose it once it was launched. All sensors and other data analysis must also be recorded back to Earth should the lander be destroyed in the process or if signal goes flat.
*Economy
**Recovering Wall Street / Early 2030s economic recession: With New York City being repopulated and operating once again, along with declining unemployment rates which then stabilise to 12% due to automation, the economy of the United States is recovering with business in Manhattan starting to come back once again after massive riots and Zalgo epidemics that have loomed here before.
*Diplomacy
**Korea: All Korean prisoners that were held for almost a year are now being deported to Korea and have being issued with a permanent travel ban to the US. However uneasy relations remain.
**Brazil: You can volunteer, just send your best ones here.
===2031 Q2===
Erdogan has released a political statement on the Zalgo Crisis in Turkey, complaining of high infection rates and the amount of aggression suffered from them. Turkey formally announces its withdrawal from the Foundation, choosing to pursue a more aggressive stance against the Zalgos. This is condemned by many nations.
Zalgo sightings often result in injury within those close to it. Hospitals experience a surge of Zalgo attack victims.
Tibetan rebels rise up against the People's Republic of China. The government attributes this to Zalgo infection.
The Zalgo instances captured by Korea are embarassingly revealed to be normal people. The first instance was crying and had her heavy eyeshadow washed off, while the second was just a drunk man. The government has been slammed over the mistreatment of unconfirmed instances.
China does not respond to requests to join the Foundation. A meeting is held in Alaska between Foundation member states and Chinese representatives in secret, where China agrees to join but on the condition it is allowed to handle situations under their jurisdiction, and that the micro-satellite is only under Chinese control.
Minor outbreaks in San Francisco and Goa. These are kept under control in quarantine zones and mass evacuations. Panic is narrowly avoided by informing the population these are relatively minor and that the situation is made to seem big to enhance public image, but it is none of that. Both cities are reporting high numbers of Zalgos everywhere.
The compound found in Zalgo cells that seems to attribute to slower decay are entirely unknown. Cross-analysis provides no similarities between it and natural biochemicals. The structure is unique, but supporters of the Martian Theory push for it to be cross-referenced with enzymes in microorganisms found on Mars.
Cells from the dust collected by Foundation forces are found to have sustained what seems to be severe thermal decomposition, implying they were exposed to high temperatures or set on fire within the cell itself.
The composition of the black fluid coming from the Zalgo's orifices are the same as those in their blood - Too many contaminants, enzymes and proteins to analyze.
Zalgos known to converse are noted to inform ZCP staff that those under containment will not turn to dust. "We're no longer under the Star's range. It's a shame, but at least the Elite have a place in the Star to watch over us."
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**Thanks to internet and television, Zalgo paranoia is becoming common in Brazil. Although we don't have cases into our territory, people are getting terrified and are beating or shooting people for "looking like Zalgos". Police is trying to control the situation by making it clear that there's no Zalgo outbreak in Brazil, but violence cases still happen. As a result, a new law on spreading hoaxes is passed, making it illegal to spread fake news about the Zalgo. Around twelve people were arrested for hoaxes and thirty for attacking "Zalgos", which were normal people. Gun control is more and more requested.
*Military:
**Aircraft Carrier Pedro II is fully operational with 26 armed multirole fighters. It is deployed in the Northeastern coast to patrol the seas.
**The Quarantine Zone in Rio de Janeiro starts to be cleaned up from the dust. Places with high contamination will be burnt. The whole area will be disinfected with napalm and sodium hydroxide before being rebuilt and settled again. Expected to finish by 2031 Q4.
**From the battalions stationed at the Amazon to avoid Zalgos from crossing the borders, some will go to the state of Roraima and be left in stand-by, waiting for the situation in Guyana to develop.
*Economy:
**Petrobrás recieves heavy investments to increase its oil production and reduce dependency from foreign suppliers.
**High-technology machinery exports to Sub-saharian Africa increase.
*Diplomacy:
**Venezuela is condemned by its threats against Guyana. Brazil discourages an armed conflict, and calls the UNSC to avoid one. Venezuela is also accused of censorship and going back to the bolivarian roots.
**Brazil condemns Turkey for withdrawing from the Foundation, and says that an aggressive approach will not solve the root of the problem, but its ramifications. ICEZ accepts turkish scientists who still want to colaborate.
**ICEZ sends several of its best researchers on the Zalgo issue to the United States. They may not go to Mars due to capacity limitations, but still can contribute from Earth. Brazil also sends $2B in equipment and material to the project.
**We're fine with the chinese terms, as long as it contributes to solving the Zalgo problem.
*Zalgo Combat and Research (ICEZ):
**Teams keep trying to find a pathogen in different tissue samples.
**Samples of the anti-decay compound found in Zalgos are isolated and sent to NASA, so they perform field tests to compare it to whatever they find in Mars.
**Cells found in Zalgo dust are found to have been destroyed by extreme heat, perhaps from inside the cell itself.
***The same type of tissue is extracted from one of our Zalgo instances and exposed to ever-increasing temperatures. Any change is registered along with the temperature at the moment. We aim to carefully analyze how it reacts to heat and see if they will become Zalgo powder.
***Individual Zalgo cells are analyzed with a microscope, looking for any internal structure that doesn't exist in healthy cells. We're trying to find what may have set the cells on fire, or if there's any other secret hidden in them.
**Due to the vocalization recorded by the ZCP, several of our astronomers compare the timeline of Zalgo events with the position of stars and constelations, from today and from 4.5 billion years ago (like one of the other instances said last year), trying to find any pattern or relation between them.
**ICEZ suggests taking vocalizing Zalgo instances to Mars (with all security measures to avoid accidents, like bringing firearms) to see if their behavior changes.
====Korean Federation====
* Government
** EAMO Summit : The current secretary of the EAMO has announced an upcoming summit regarding the Zalgo threats and other problems. Countries invited are Brazil, China, US, Russia, India, Representatives of the EU and ASEAN, and Mongolia.
** Higher Income, Lower Taxes Reform : The government has again lowered taxes by 0.5%. The government will increase wages by %1.
* Economy
** Funds to Tibet : To help Tibet prosper, the government has started sending $10 million to them monthly. The government shall deny any evidence and blame it on the black market.
* Military
** Disbandment of the AZT : Since no real Zalgos were found, the military has disbanded the AZT. However, they are not yet completely disbanded. All former members will be called if the time comes.
** Little Green Men : The disguised soldiers have now arrived in Manchuria and some in Tiger. Those in Manchuria shall encourage natives to rise up against the government. Those in Tibet will act as advisors or fight with them. The government shall deny all evidences and blame it on private military companies or Koreans willing to fight for independence of Tibet and Manchuria.
* Diplomacy
** Tibet : Keep fighting them. We will send more weapons through India.
** India : Allow the passage of weapons and we will pay you $5 million.
** Manchuria : Rise up against the oppressors, we shall fight communism together.
** Hong Kong and Macau : We will support any rebellions you will start. We will send weapons and funds.
====Iceland====
*Government: A republic with the Alþingi as our legislature.
**Demographics: 366k people 
**Ethnics:
***92.12% Iceland
***3.60% Polish
***4.28% other
*Military
**Iceland has no military.
**Icelandic Coast Goard:
***3 x Patrol vessels
***1 x Fixed wing aircraft
***3 x Helicopters
***2 x Patrol/survey boat
***220 x Officers and men
*Economy
**GDP: 21 billion US$, 56k US$ per capita
**Mainly from tourism, fishing, alumnium producing, and stuff
**We also drill oil in the Arctic and sell to other nations, like the United States, and now we are open for foreign oil companies to drill oil if they pay us.
*Diplomacy:
*USA and Federation: We are interested in joining.
====Republic of Venezuela====
*Government:
**False Testimons: After knowing that some nations said that we eliminated political leaders, and mistreated people, we falsified this with real evidence that the recent uploads were made by venezuela criminals, who simply mistreated other people dressed in our Search Engines , blaming us falsely before the world.
**New Presidential Elections: The presidential elections in Venezuela, will begin in August, for now, we are preparing the elections for that, have a good coverage, and electoral centers throughout the country.
**Reclamation of Guyana: After years and years, Venezuela, no longer asks for Guyana, demands it, the Bolivarian Democratic Board, has decided, that if it is not given to Guyana, it will be taken by force with military actions. For now, we are preparing our forces for a possible invasion.
**Case T-24-A2U: This case is secret, because the nations would simply ignore it. A Zalgo, who could vocalize, kept saying that he came from 'Mars', obviously, we do not believe him, since it is impossible, but we keep the files, since he says very strange things, that there is something in Mars, civilizations, simply, follies.
*RBZ (Research Body of Zalgos): We began to dismiss some search engines to avoid having to spend so much on people that the only thing they are doing is going around the street. But anyway, we continue hunting Zalgos, but no longer on such a large scale.
*Military:
**Guyanese-Venezuelan Frontier: We mobilized more than 3,000 soldiers capable of crossing the jungle, so, in case of a denial, be ready to invade. Also, we planted some guerrillas (130 Guerrillas) in Guyanese land, to also attack the Guyanese forces in secret.
**Preparation of the Air and Naval fleet: Not only that, but we also began the preparation of our air and naval forces, as well as Russian Sukhois, some US Fs, and our navy, that is, battleships, destroyers, cruisers, corvettes, etc.
*Economy: We accept the proposal to buy oil from Brazil, selling it at that considerable price. Also, we continue the export of oil to other countries, continuing the profit even more.
*Diplomacy: If in some months (Q3) Guyana does not give us up, we will attack the territory of Guyana with our forces. We started the withdrawal of Diplomatics not necessary in the United Kingdom.
====United States of America====
*Government
**Controversial Democrat candidate for the 2032 Primaries: Benton Hammond, a controversial senator from Rhode Island rose up at the start of summer 2031 to potentially defeat numerous Democratic candidates with his calling for the United States to start 'punishing Korea for doing obscene actions' and replace them with a new government whenever necessary and used strongly racial-oriented language to harass Korean-Americans for 'infiltrating our country like spies and they should be watched more often'. This led to mass protests in the Korean diaspora in late June after he announced to be the presidential candidate for the Democrats to fight against President Rubio which he intends to run for another term instead of stepping down after serving the rest of former President Hughes' term. This will slowly unfold the next nine months though as he was partially vague. Perhaps the Democrats are experiencing a polarity reverse in the left-right spectrum (seeing that Hammond is a conservative Democrat which is unlikely since the start of the 20th century but seem to make a comeback in only very few numbers as of this year) and the Republicans as well?
**Cybersecurity Enhancement Program of 2031: Despite major pressure on trying to have the United States open up more transparency which conspiracists desire such as the actual case of San Francisco, recent political drama has led to the Cybersecurity Enhancement Program of 2031 or CSEP. CSEP will enhance security walls and protection of classified files by creating a firewall, combined with genetic prints, bionic tests and various other tests so that one spy from other nation will not easily access classified files or use them. All forged identities (even if they were able to tap in the system) and stolen identities will not be accepted upon entry by another agent who will be likely trying to use multiple gestures. Any arrested agents suspected of having allegiance with other nations will be kept in for few months in detention and agree not to expose any documents by expunging all information through confiscation of all stolen data and destroy those if they were copies of the original when checked in by security once they return to their respective country. This program will be fully complete by 2033.
*Military
**Intervention
***Operation Cisco (San Francisco): With the whole media and the government saying that the outbreak is minor unlike New York and have safely evacuated in numbers through camps, the ZCP quickly intervened in the situation by sending in a two thousand force, which is almost the half of the available recruits and veterans available to apprehend these Zalgos. However the ZCP is also turning San Francisco, unlike New York City into a laboratory itself temporarily by stuffing all Zalgos into one building and observing any changes. Any escape will lead to them being killed while all other Zalgos that are not in a designated building or are outside are expected to be neutralised.
***Other areas: Due to increased number of Zalgo sightings once again, all of the military personnel with more than 1 year of experience, including higher-ranking officials are encouraged to join ZCP after they have passed multiple tests and terms which has being in effect since the start of 2031. This means every quarter, only few hundred will be able to join instead of just around the average of 80 to 90 per quarter out of ordinary military soldiers. They are all deployed to hunt for other Zalgos to train and prepare that they have to give up their normal lives.
*Research
**They don't turn to dust: So the ZCP concluded that the Zalgos that are in captive won't turn to dust, but they have to find a way to observe it. The best chance they could do it is to observe all Zalgos in one room in San Francisco through the eyelids of cameras hacked by ZCP forces. But they also brought up the theory that Zalgos turning into dust may only happen if the Zalgo itself is alone and that they can't turn to dust all of a sudden unless they're alone. But these cameras are hacked and viewed by multiple bases across the United States, while the Zalgo itself shouldn't be able to escape around the building in certain parts. Some sceptics believe this will lead to further infection but they want to see if San Francisco ends up like New York.
**Martian Theory: The Martian Theory is still being worked on. The ZCP and NASA is using this as a chance to get a manned Martian mission going and find if there's life on Mars in the past or if there's an advanced civilisation that was in the hiding for millions, if not billions of years.
**Manned Martian mission: A team of three initial members were selected, along with ten reserves in April should any member of the Federation don't want to send its own researchers during a secretive press announcement between all Federation members for the manned Martian mission that is scheduled to launch on December 2031. To get the most out of it, NASA and the ZCP asks for every member of the Federation to volunteer by sending in materials and parts to reduce launch failure risks and even send in their own researchers to become part of this expedition regarding to the Martian Theory. There were also suggestions to send a Zalgo, a vocalised Zalgo of course to Mars. This was approved by the ZCP on May and thus they could send one onboard only if they are directly observed but contained so that it doesn't escape around the lander, say another pod that is detachable.
*Economy
**Early 2030s recession: Still recovering in New York, but a small plunge happens when a "minor outbreak" emerges in San Francisco due to a large amount of Zalgos happening once again.
*Diplomacy
**All members of the Federation: We ask for your support to launch a manned mission which is due by December 2031 (should note that the lander only holds eight people due to limitations of transporting at that time even if they did fund a lot into it which happened recently, but we decided to limit it to three of us since we make huge efforts to create an unlikely manned mission and reserved few in case you don't want to join in the joint effort to find out about what's behind Mars). If our mission fails or succeed when we land to Mars, perhaps our chance to prove the Martian Theory might happen or not even happen at all. Let's hope that it works out.
**Brazil: We could try but that could risk our mission though if they try to infect us. And to be honest, you'll mainly do the research regarding towards Zalgos on Earth, since we are moving mostly to space operations regarding to the manned mission to Mars.
**China: We don't care about what you do to the satellite as long you give information regarding to your satellite.
**Iceland: You can volunteer in our own mission but we recommend that you send one crew to our own mission as we only hold five in our newly created lander.
===2031 Q3===
The People's Republic of China manages to control the Tibetan insurgency, while also revealing the rebels had external funding. They also report failed attempts to start a revolution in Macau, Hong Kong and East Turkestan respectively.
Protests occur in Pyongyang over the recent handling of several issues by the government. A similar sentiment arises in Seoul.
Sanctions on Venezuela by several nations, mainly those that do not primarily rely on Venezuelan oil exports.
Guyana requests more time to confirm their decision whether to surrender to the Venezuelans. The people on the other hand, have shown hostility towards the idea of Venezuelan annexation.
Video footage shows extreme police brutality against riots due to the upcoming elections. It is noted that most of the opposition leaders in Venezuela are suspiciously missing.
Nothing happens in Manchuria. Hmm.
China has publicly stated information retrieved from the satellite will not be shared with the Foundation on the basis of national security. Chinese representatives apologize for their government's behaviour, and agree to leak information to a certain degree.
Researchers have identified 182 similar contaminants/enzymes/possible pathogens within different cells in a Zalgo. Further analysis is encouraged.
While testing Zalgo cells with extreme temperatures, it is discovered that a certain electromagnetic wavelength causes several unknown constituents of the Zalgo cell to overheat and explode. The process is noted for it's similarities to Spontaneous Human Combustion, except the cells do not burn on the outside.
It is noted that the timeframe of the Zalgo's description of the constellations correlate with the Martian Noachian Period, in which pH-neutral water was theorized to run all across Mars, making the environment there suitable for life.
Theories being worked on the Zalgo dust by the US come up with no promising results. In short, none of the Zalgos exploded.
The Foundation agrees to the manned mission to Mars.
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**Tensions between the oppositors and supporters of Bolsonaro keep growing. Now, the opposition is accused of sistematically attacking supporters under the accusation of being Zalgos. Arrests take place.
**Several people are fined for spreading false news about Zalgos and some minor websites are taken down, because hoaxes are spreading unnecessary panic.
*Military:
**The Aircraft Carrier, fully armed and operational, joins a fleet with ten escort frigates and a submarine flotilla in stealth and moves to the coast of Suriname to protect Guyana immediately in case of Venezuelan invasion.
**Twenty thousand men, along with their armored transport vehicles, secretly move into the Guyana jungle and deploys around the capital, Georgetown, sticking with the Guyanan Defense Forces and staying in maximum readiness. In case of Venezuelan aggression, they would follow Rules of Engagement and only defend, not attack. Their transportation is very easy, as our army was already mobilized due to Zalgo.
**Thirty thousand men, including Marines, are deployed in the border with Venezuela, along with fighting vehicles, ground attack aircraft, helicopters and artillery. They are there to defend our borders if Venezuela attacks us for defending Guyana. We do not intend to use these forces unless attacked first.
*Economy:
**Petrobrás oil production increases and supplies the internal market, reducing our dependency on venezuelan oil and allowing us to join the sanctions.
*Diplomacy:
**Brazil shows support to the people of Guyana and defends that the current south american borders do not have to be changed, let alone through war. We demand Venezuela to drop the ultimatum, and ask to stop the oppression against oppositors on a side note.
*Zalgo Combat and Research (ICEZ):
**182 similar contaminants, enzymes and/or possible pathogens are found inside different Zalgo cells. They are separated in groups by degree of similarity and studied extensively. Due to the high number of substances but equally high scientific value of the discovery, we destinate 65% of our researching personnel to analyze them individually, with each research team receiving $2M. The effort will not stop until all of the 182 are analyzed and categorized, as this is the closest we've got to identify the pathogen. This is now our second priority, with vocalizations being first.
**We found out a certain electromagnetic wavelenght causes Zalgo cells to combust internally and explode.
***Scientists believe it was caused by resonance (for dummies: a certain wave frequency causes a certain material to oscillate), in a phenomena similar to water in a microwave oven. The teams that are analyzing the 182 components must now test which ones vibrate with said wavelenght. Those that vibrate become the priority to be studied.
***The preparations to resettle Rio quarantine zones are stopped. Scientists look around the area, trying to find any source to the electromagnetic wavelenght. Our officers secretly contact chinese leakers to see if they find something that could transmit this wavelenght in the Moon object. We also ask the US to look for similar laser emmiters in NYC.
***The strongest theory to the disappearance of Zalgos is that something or someone emmited this specific wavelenght at the quarantine zones, which overheated unknown components inside Zalgo cells and made them spontaneously combust. Healthy humans do not seem to be affected, as soldiers were at the quarantine zone when the Zalgos disappeared and they felt nothing.
**The time frame from constellations described by Zalgos are from the Noachian Period. Coincidentally, it's believed that Mars had life during that time. Also, this period happened around 4 billion years ago, just like a chinese instance mentioned before in a vocalization. The Mars Theory gets stronger.
***It is noted that, in Audio Log 118263-32, Subject 09 said "Our home is dead." Mars is believed to have had life during the Noachian until an event sterilized the whole planet. In the same talk, Subject 53 said "We should have come here before the endemics.". Mars is also believed to have become sterile much before life exploded in Earth, and billions of years before humans. We're almost certain that the Zalgos come from Noachian-period Mars, but somehow survived and ended up here, as Subject 09 said in the same talk: "We are the most powerful. We have survived.".
***In Audio Log 118263-17, Subject 48 said "It is a shame some of the banks suffered corruption. The vacuum of space does not forgive.". NASA and the Foundation are notified. For the Mars Mission, we ask them to look not only in the ground, but also in the skies and orbit of Mars for some sort of "bank".
====United States of America====
*Government
**2032 Democratic Primaries: The 2032 Democratic primaries were tedious as it truly begun in autumn 2031 after Hammond made a bid back in June, which one of the major candidates in the Democratic primaries was Kasim Reed, rose up to fight out of all of the three candidates that are considered part of the so-called mainstream Democrats against the populist Senator Benton Hammond (Hammond is a fictional person by the way and searching it up doesn't do anything, same with Hughes) in a bid to save the Democratic Party from shifting backwards again and don't allow the Republicans shift as well once again within 50 years. Benton Hammond however continued to rise up in popularity after funding was revealed by blaming Tibetans being connected to Korea after funding was revealed and also turned towards becoming extremely interventionist by calling for a full invasion of those who try to commit 'human rights crimes' and other countries that have damaged relations to the US through such 'atrocities' rather than simply wanting to overthrow Korea. Some called him a 'bigoted racist towards Koreans' and 'mentally unstable' by September 2031 who 'wanted the Democratic Party to plunge back to it's 19th century values'. Bernie Sanders (who died sometime on 2032 of old age), before his death said the following describing Hammond: "We're ready for a Second Trump". Polls suggest that Marco Rubio however will defeat Hammond by 72% if the 2032 elections were held today, but even these polls might eventually end up similar to the 2016 elections as many political analysts feared if the Korean political drama intensifies or if Marco Rubio didn't do well in politics through approval ratings.
*Military
**Venezuelan-Guyanese War (July 2031-present): With tensions between Venezuela and Guyana being quite imminent, the United States took action by publicly condemning Venezuela of it's invasion and secretly supporting Guyana of it's military support while cutting all trade to Venezuela, thus they will no longer be supplied with any equipment coming from the United States. The US does not intervene directly on Guyana and Venezuela due to the risks that might unfold similar to the invasion of North Korea in the past but will aid the defendant which is Guyana at all times from July 2031 and onwards.
**Intervention
***Operation Cisco (San Francisco): The crackdown of Zalgos continue but the temporary laboratory status was taken down immediately after no success. The ZCP ordered to kill all Zalgos that are approaching to infect or try to attack ZCP personnel and capture some of them alive for the mission through more efficient methods.
***Other areas: The same above.
*Economy
**Early 2030s economic recession: We are still recovering but albeit slowly. Will be done by the start of 2032 hopefully. Hopefully. Then it becomes stagnant.
*Research
**It's possible dust can only happen in certain conditions: That's enough for us turning San Francisco into a laboratory. Although we are also trying to get some of the laser emitters from New York to be placed in San Francisco if it does a similar effect once retrieved. We are also becoming more reliant on other nations to do the research on most Zalgos by now, the ZCP and NASA are heavily focused on the manned Martian mission to ensure that the Martian Theory is proven somehow at all directions.
**New York Files: Brazil had informed us about these similar laser emitters that may exist in New York City and now some of the ZCP forces began focusing on searching the whole city to find these emitters and see if they match the frequency. They are also being given the question in exchange about what is the Star that was mentioned by one of the Zalgos when they said that they won't turn to dust which had being proven by the ZCP that it may only happen possibly in certain conditions which were unknown.
**Manned Martian Mission: With the Federation supporting the mission to Mars as expected, the launch date will have a reduced risk of being a failure due to heavy investments and NASA had handpicked the rest of the remainder five crew into the team. The mission will also expand not just on the suface, but to analyse data across all of Mars and its moons. Perhaps the moons themselves weren't captured asteroids as anticipated by earlier decade astronomers but satellites or something behind them? Perhaps the atmosphere is latent with bioweapon-like elements that allow the body to become infected? They decide it was best to also analyse the atmospheric contents and also analyse other core values such as its moons to the composition underground to make sure that it isn't alienated out of all sorts, along with heavy suiting. This is still part of the Martian Theory that was being debated heavily within most Federation members though. (Big things next turn though!)
*Diplomacy
**Brazil: We'll log in some of that information.
**Venezuela: Nah we don't need you. The United States decides to publicly condemn the invasion of Guyana conducted by Venezuela and sends in aid to Guyana to protect themselves from an unstable regime after hearing of an invasion.
====Republic of Venezuela====
*Government:
**Presidential Elections: Finally, the elections were held, and although the results were unexpected, they were: 35% Social-Democratic, 25% Democratic, 10% Socialist, 40% Other.
**Special Forces in Guyana: After the time agreed by the democratic forces, more than 100 Commandos of the Venezuelan Special Forces, are sent to Georgetown, to neutralize objectives of great importance, like the same governor of Guyana, which we could "Disappear" like some political officials of Guyana.
**Venezuelan Agression: After months of warnings and threats, officially, we started the invasion of Guyana, with more than 4,000 soldiers specialized in jungle and jungle, as well as a few hundred guerrillas, stationed deep in the Guyanese jungle. (Rest will be shown in Military)
*Military:
**Invasion of Guyana: We initially entered with 4,200 troops specialized in jungles, and a few armed transports, which have camouflage, so as not to be detected. We can give a hard, fast initial blow, in the practically unprotected jungle, crushing the Guyanese forces. Also, deep in Guyanese lands, our guerrillas are beginning to cut off Guyanese supplies and to guard the Guyano-Brazilian border. Several guerrilla posts are created by our guerrillas (duh).
**Bombardement of Georgetown: With our Sukhois, we started the bombing of Georgetown, eliminating thousands of Guyanese units, and not only that, but we also discovered Brazilian units in Georgetown. Also, we mobilized some of our naval forces to the shores of Georgetown, bombarding with missiles and artillery the main military and industrial centers. Although being able to destroy most objectives, we unfortunately have more than 1,000 civilian casualties.
**Other Operations: Also, we began the elimination of Guyanese militias in the jungle and the occupation of rural areas populated in the few plains there are.
*Economy: After the sanctions on the part of most nations, we started what we did not want, to begin the sale of oil to China, which is one of the nations that accept oil. We also sell oil mainly to the US and China.
*Diplomacy: After some nations rejected us, we tried to increase relations with Russia and the US.
====Korean Federation====
* Government
** EAMO Summit : The meeting has ended. Nations in EAMO has pledged to start programs in Africa and Asia. Each member must contribute $10 million for the programs.
** Federal Villages : The government has split the federal districts into federal villages. The governor will still lead each district. A local mayor will be elected as the leader of a village to manage issues the people have.
** Military Aid to Hong Kong and Macau : As a desperate solution, we send 100 instructors, 500 regular soldiers, and 20 AFVs to Hong Kong. The AFVs will be covered in tons of sugar and salt. These AFVs are brand new meaning that there would be no smell of fuel.
* Economy
** Greater Korean City : It is 71% finished. An extra $10 billion was sent.
** Aid to Hong Kong and Macau : $1 billion was sent to each to buy weapons and some vehicles. They will start the revolution. As before, we will deny any claims.
* Military
** Training of Hong Kong and Macau Rebels : 100 instructors shall teach the rebels the military tactics of the Federation of Korea Armed Forces. 500 soldiers will assist in setting up traps, sniping outposts, and machine gun outposts.
** Commissioning of all K3 tanks : The military has now commissioned all K3 tanks. A further 900 was ordered for $10 billion.
** KIUAV Program : The military has started the KIUAV Program. This UAV will be used for recon.
** Mark 1 Drone Purchase : The Mark 1 system has been completely researched and tested. The military has ordered 10,000 drones which will cost $1 million as each drone cost $100.
** Mark 2 System : The Mark 2 system will now be researched. Budget for this is $2 billion.
* Diplomacy
** Hong Kong and Macau : Don’t fail this time. We will send you anything you need. For democracy.
** India : Want to create the SEAMO or South-East Asian Military Organization?
====Iceland====
*Government: A republic with the Alþingi as our legislature.
**Demographics: 370k people 
**Ethnics:
***92.12% Iceland
***3.60% Polish
***4.28% other
*Military
**Icelandic Land Corps: 1000 soldiers, 3 artillery
**Icelandic Coast Goard:
***3 x Patrol vessels
***1 x Fixed wing aircraft
***3 x Helicopters
***2 x Patrol/survey boat
***220 x Officers and men
*Economy
**GDP: 21 billion US$, 56k US$ per capita
**Mainly from tourism, fishing, alumnium producing, and stuff
**We also drill oil in the Arctic and sell to other nations, like the United States, and now we are open for foreign oil companies to drill oil if they pay us.
*Diplomacy:
*Events
**Icelandic Military: With fears of Zalgo, the legislature to form a national military was passed in the Alþingi. A thousand men are conscripted into the military at first and allow males and females from 18 to 30 to volunteer into the military themselves.
**Mars mission: We sent a small group of volunteers to the USA for the Mars mission.
===2031 Q4===
Sanctions are slammed on Venezuela by a multitude of nations, including the UK, France, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China and even Colombia.
The Guyana-Venezuela War officially begins, with Venezuelan forces invading the South American state. They do not make it very far, as the Brazilian efforts to defend Guyana have proved quite effective. Meanwhile, a Venezuelan sniper is caught trying to assassinate the Guyanan President.
Venezuela experiences riots on a magnitude not recorded since the 2010s, in which the Venezuelans under Maduro rose up against the corrupt government.
Chinese authorities are suspicious of the actions of Korea, after finding approximately 12 armoured vehicles covered in absurd amounts of salt and sugar in Hong Kong, which was what raised the attention of the authorities in the first place. They are accused of intervening in Chinese affairs, and have been told to stay out.
Cardiff, Macau City, Istanbul and Monrovia are quarantined.
The Tibetan rebellion ends, after the ringleaders are arrested and trialled. In addition to this, the weapons confiscated are shown to be of Korean origin. China continues to be suspicious of Korea.
Protests continue in Pyongyang, with more demonstrations occuring in Seoul and Busan.
6 enzymes/proteins/contaminants are found within Zalgo blood that resonate violently under a specified wavelength, before combusting. Until further progress is made, it is assumed that all 6 of the organelles contribute to the disintegration of Zalgo specimens.
Chinese representatives have notified the Foundation that while the microsatellite has not made any signs of activity so far, the same wavelength has been tracked coming from said microsatellite's approximate orbit about 19 months ago.
ZCP personnel do not find any laser emitters in New York City.
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**The war in Guyana diverts the people's attention from politics and Zalgos. A large part of the population condemn the invasion, and a research shows that 74% of the people would approve direct invasion due to the brazilians killed in Guyana by venezuelan forces.
*Military:
**From the already deployed troops (that were being used in border patrol and garrisoning), fifty thousand soldiers along with IFVs, helicopters, AA and artillery are sent to the frontline in Guyana. Considering the 30k guarding the border with Venezuela and 20k in Guyana, we now have 100k men in the war.
**War plan:
***The soldiers in Guyana push back the venezuelan invaders until the official Guyana-Venezuela border. The Brazil-Guyana border is reopened and supplies are transported with heavy escort. Our troops stop at the border and do not advance into Velezuela.
***30 attack aircraft already stationed at the Amazon are sent to provide ground support. 42 multirole fighters are mobilized and sent to the frontline to provide either air superiority or ground support, whatever is more needed. In an emergency situation, the carrier aircraft may join too.
***Our submarine fleet, which was in stealth in the coast of Suriname, moves west and engages venezuelan ships bombarding the guyanese coast. During the submarine surprise strike, our Aircraft Carrier and her escorts join the battle. The MiGs from the carrier are armed with anti-ship missiles and also join the fight. The strike is massive and intense, aiming to either exterminate the fleet or scare them away, depending on whether they (the venezuelan player) retreat or not.
***From our 2.4M men strong reserves, we prepare to mobilize at least 500,000 if Venezuela declares war on Brazil. Due to Zalgo-caused readiness and popular support, such mobilization would be quick and troops would reach the frontline by the next turn.
***Special forces are deployed in Georgetown to secure guyanese authorities and to hunt down more venezuelan infiltrated agents.
*Economy:
**Petrobrás, the brazilian state oil company, is interested in Artic oil drilling. Their representants go to Iceland to negotiate the drilling terms.
*Diplomacy:
**Brazil votes to suspend Venezuela from Mercosur. We also warn them not to retaliate for our intervention in Guyana, otherwise an all-out war between Brazil and Venezuela would not end well for the latter.
**We propose an alliance with Guyana to protect the country from future aggression.
**We send a team of military officers to Iceland to auxiliate in the training of their new Armed Forces.
*Zalgo Combat and Research (ICEZ):
**Six structures are found to resonate violently with the specified wavelength. These 6 structures become priority and are studied more extensively than the others. They're also separated and introduced individually inside healthy cells to see what happens.
**According to what the chinese representives said, we're now certain that the Moon microsatellite emitted a laser which made Zalgos combust, as this same wavelength was detected coming from it exactly when the quarantine zones in Rio and NYC woke up empty.
***China is notified that the microsatellite is a key point in understanding the Zalgos, and access to its data is extremely important. Hidden from the government, the chinese representatives are asked to send us any information about the Object's internal structure. We also present the possibility of bringing it to Earth to study it better.
**Despite protests, we start to theorize about a laser weapon against Zalgos. Both dead and alive instances are put into chambers and exposed to high-power lasers with the specified wavelenght.
**We're still trying to detect vocalizations and talks between instances'.
**Our researchers on the Mars Theory are sent to the US. Good luck, stay safe.
====United States of America====
*Government
**Venezuela: The Congress votes narrowly against an invasion of Venezuela. This had angered some pro-war supporters but the government decided that they would leave the rest up to those near Venezuela instead of having themselves intervening.
**2032 Democratic Primaries: With Korea's behaviour being quite unpredictable, Hammond's support had skyrocketed in the Democratic primaries at the end of 2031 after Korea was found to be supporting China and later revealed to have started plans of trying to sow dissidents in South Asia according to rumours that had emerged within the protests of Korea, with Reed's support now hanging on 52% to 48% of Hammond. Other candidates such as Tulsi Gabbard had already stepped down at this point (in November 2031) as it was impossible to take back support from someone who tries to run a populist campaign, where Gabbard had endorsed Kasim Reed as a candidate for the Democratic Party in the 2032 elections and saying that Senator Hammond is "a deranged person who is mentally focused on a small irrelevant nation". On 18th December however, Hammond fought back on multiple politicians, and insisted that he focused on the general people's opinions and saying to those who endorsed Reed "will suffer consequences when we don't know when Korea is a threat and it's people are for the past four years and they'll regret it." Hammond also promised on 29th December to deal with Korea through "industrial espionage and sabotage", "international crime reparations" and sanctions if he were elected, which decreased his support by a bit due to his uncertain nature of trying to cause a theoretical Third Korean War. The DNC is scheduled to be set in early July 2032 and if Hammond gets a hand on this by becoming the presidential candidate, then the Democratic Party gets trashed.
**Proportional Voting Debate: As the 2032 elections neared, it was becoming clear that if Hammond rigs the electoral system to his favour, the United States is screwed at this point. Thus the amendment to proportional voting was quickly passed by the Congress initially on October and ratified by 17 states (mostly the east and western states of the United States) quickly by the end of the year. However they still need two-thirds support of making the 30th amendment in effect to instead equally distribute the electoral system through population and not by the Congress.
*Military
**Venezuelan-Guyanese War: ​​​​​​We support Guyana by any means.
**Intervention: With more intervention happening throughout the whole nation and number of ZCP personnel subsequently increases asmore and tempted to join to know information, but the risk of having more of these soldiers are putting a strain in trying to hide information. So a decision is made so that by the end of 2032, they can began toughen the rules as they had enough personnel to deploy across the United States and push into psychological aspects of the test and be tempted through simulations if they are compelling not to leak data and lots of agreements.
*Economy: Stagnant and recovered.
*Research
**Other projects: It gets even more relevant to this day.
**Martian Manned Mission (December 2031): Publicly, NASA announced that they have launched a mission codenamed "Project Helios" but NASA had decided not to release any more details for multiple reasons which includes sensitive information, so journalists won't gain any information regarding to it until further notice. NASA and the government discouraged any recording of the launch in Cape Canaveral for this mission as five men including two Zalgos which are on another lander that is closely attached and sealed away. The purpose of the mission is to observe as much as possible upon approaching Mars in orbit, the atmospheric landing and all samples and other observational data available on the area. The ZCP will send out additional information once they approach Mars about an estimated two to three months time and see if there were any changes immediately when these Zalgos were launched into space. For now, they have to observe any effects that the Zalgos have on space and if they are affected by any means of no gravity or changes in behaviour.
*Diplomacy
**Venezuela: We strongly recommend that you lay off the claim over western Guyana. Your border disputes that have being persistent for almost two hundred years won't do anything.
**Iceland: The United States funds Iceland's military by sending in some essential equipment to upstart a recently militarised country.
**Korea: We threaten sanctions if they continue to try to attempt increasing their influence across the world in a defying way. (This is not directly the action of Hammond yet, but the US feels like they have started to make themselves decrease reputation among other nations and make multiple excuses by apologising, this is the point where they began trying to push military tensions)
====Korean Federation====
* Government
** Addressing the People’s Needs : As more protests occur in Seoul and Pyongyang, local authorities have convinced the government to address their needs.
** Greater Korean City Opening : The government has announced that the Greater Korean City Project has finished and it will be the new capital, replacing Seoul and Pyongyang. We encourage people from abroad to visit the new capital.
** Coup d’etat in Vietnam and Laos : To cleanse the world of communism, the government has approved the support of Vietnamese and Lao rebels striving for democracy. We will send 200 soldiers as regular people and 50 instructors as professional workers. We send them $1 billion for the coup.
* Economy
** Arctic Drilling : The state-owned oil company, Korean Oil, and other private oil companies are interested in drilling oil in the Arctic. The government will be willing to pay $19 million.
** Eco-Green Power Plants Project : The government has approved a eco-friendly power plant project. Construction shall start next year. Budget allocated for this is $5 billion.
* Military
** Deployment of Riot Troopers : As more protest occurs, the military decides to send Riot Troopers. Similar to the Riot Police, they will have a live-fire weapon, tear gas, flash grenades, and body armor.
* Diplomacy
** China : We are sorry for our recent actions and shall stop meddling in Chinese affairs.
** India, Philippines, Myanmar, and Thailand : Want to do a military exercise.
** Vietnamese and Lao Rebels : Don’t fail this. 
** USA : Stop threatening us with sanctions. You had done the same expanding your influence around the world. Remember the dictatorships during the Cold War? Why are you using us as a debate for your elections? Cleanse the world from communism.
====Iceland====
*Government: A republic with the Alþingi as our legislature.
**Demographics: 370k people 
**Ethnics:
***92.15% Icelandic
***3.60% Polish
***4.25% other
*Military
**Icelandic Land Corps: 1600 soldiers, 3 artillery
**Icelandic Coast Goard:
***3 x Patrol vessels
***1 x Fixed wing aircraft
***3 x Helicopters
***2 x Patrol/survey boat
***220 x Officers and men
*Economy
**GDP: 22 billion US$, 58k US$ per capita
**Mainly from tourism, fishing, alumnium producing, and stuff
**Oil drilling and selling oil drilling permits to other nations
*Diplomacy:
**United States: We offer them oil permits at a lower price, as a gesture of goodwill for their help in upstarting an Icelandic military.
**Brazil. Offer accepted. Your company Petrobrás is permitted to drill oil in our EEZ.
**Korea: In the light of your recent actions in the international stage, and the fact that your offer is not impressive enough, we have decided to decline your offer.
*Events
**Icelandic Military: The military starts to gain more personnel, albeit slowly. Equipments from the United States are helping us a lot.
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===2032===
===2032 Q1===
The fighting in the Guyana-Venezuela War reaches stagnation, with both sides switching to defensive stances. The Venezuelans are pushed back to the pre-war borders, thanks to Brazilian intervention.
China places sanctions on Korea as punishment, but nothing more. They warn Korea that "the United States had a reason to expand their influence during the Cold War, and that was against the USSR. There is no major rival against Korea, so their attempts to expand influence are merely irredentism. Any future attempts to infiltrate Chinese affairs will be dealt with harsh consequences." China is slammed by several nations after this, but their thoughts are said to be justified by some.
Venezuela descends into riots over several reasons, including the mishandling of suspected Zalgos, political collusion and other matters.
No changes recorded in the Zalgos aboard the Mars mission. Audio log recorded.
Zalgos exposed to said specified wavelength disintegrate violently, both dead and alive instances share the same response.
Chinese representatives have confirmed that bringing the satellite down to Earth is an option, albeit a very difficult course of action due to the stubborness of the Chinese government.
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**Both the people and the government are outraged with Venezuela's actions against brazilian peacekeeping troops. For that reason, Brazil declares war on Venezuela.
*Military:
**Brazil got 5 times more troops than Venezuela in Guyana. Any of their incursions fail miserably and not a single venezuelan is able to stay more than a couple minutes across the border.
**The Navy denies that Venezuela sank its aircraft carrier, and proves it by posting recent pictures of it and its fleet. Instead, only one frigate sank and two were heavily damaged in combat, the latter being sent to repairing in brazilian ports. Seven more ships are sent to reinforce the surface fleet, now with 14 escort ships.
**As promised in case of venezuelan aggression, 500,000 more men are mobilized and sent to the frontline. We now have 600k troops, along with hundreds of artillery pieces, fighting vehicles and dozens of helicopters. We prepare to mobilize 300,000 more men.
**40 more fighters and 25 more attack aircraft are mobilized and join the combat. We not have a total of 55 CAS + 40 Fighters + 42 multiroles, the latter in both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions.
**War Plan:
***Our aircraft start a massive air campaign over Venezuela. Within the first week of combat, we bomb and inutilize their Air Force bases and main airports to force their planes to land in small, unprepared airports, harming their air capabilities.
***In stealth, our submarines launch missiles at the five main ports in Venezuela and inutilize them, aiming to stop the country from trading and starve its economy. As we know it, ports are the main trading route of most nations, and air trade is not as effective.
***All at once, our forces cross the border and advance deep into venezuelan territory. As pointed out before, we have 5 times more men and more fighting vehicles and artillery. Our army steamroll over the venezuelan Amazon and reach the urban areas in no time. There, the troops split and surround Caracas and its metropolitan area, advancing deeper into populated zones. Military positions in the venezuelan capital are bombed with artillery frequently. The Marine Corps plays a key role in the invasion, doing special operations and infiltrating behind the lines to sabotage and recon.
***Hundreds of Special Forces personnel are paradropped in the outskirts of Caracas and links up with resistance forces. Together, they storm government buildings trying to perform a coup d'etat or force Venezuela to surrender by capturing leaders.
*Economy:
**Petrobrás starts drilling in Arctic paying fees to Iceland. Our oil production increases significantly, lowering gasoline and plastic prices. Sugar cane producers start to lose market due to the gasoline price drop, so they lower Ethanol prices to keep up with the competition.
*Diplomacy:
**Before the declaration of war, we recall all our diplomats in Venezuela for their own safety. Through internet and television, Bolsonaro asks the venezuelan people to contribute with the invasion and help brazilian soldiers by any means, promising a quick end to the war and a new, better government for them.
**We express neutrality about the issue in Korea, as this is none of our business.
*Zalgo Combat and Research (ICEZ):
**ICEZ sends diplomats and scientists to meet with the chinese government to try to talk them into rejoining the Foundation, as they possess one of the most important pieces of the puzzle to understand the Zalgo. They bring up arguments like the future of humanity being at stake to try to convince them.
**Zalgos explode under the wavelenght. Our scientist theorize about creating a laser to disintegrate Zalgos just like what happened in Rio and NYC. However, we have no technology to create one that works in such a wide area, since it would be extremely expensive and would involve so much energy that could blind or kill anyone within kilometres. This point is brought up in the negotiations with China, as it proves the object has very advanced technologies that we don't know.
**The six reactive compounts are still under heavy analysis, study and testing. Vocalizations are still trying to be detected.
====United States of America====
*Government
**2032 Democratic Primaries: On February 2032, the primary votes saw Democrats mainly vote in favour of Hammond by 54% out of all states. Kasim then decided to quit running for presidency as a result as his own campaign had started to fault with popular promises to make Korea 'destroyed from the inside out' which was fuelled by Korea's 'insane actions'. About 60% of those who quit had already endorsed Senator Hammond's presidency, including Cory Booker at one point, saying that "he had no choice if some insane person ran for presidency as a Democratic candidate".
**2032 Presidential Elections: With the 30th Amendment being passed, the 2032 elections will likely to become a game changing scene with the Libertarians and Greens likely to take up some seats during this election and secure some electoral votes in some states, thus reducing the chance of not only Hammond's presidency but also the Republican President Rubio as well. Both mainstream parties are forced to campaign at every degree and side as a result throughout 2032.
**Proportional Voting: The 30th Amendment is passed by 28 states by March 2032. It seems that at this rate, by June to July 2032, the 30th Amendment will be passed and that proportional voting will become effective from the 2032 presidential elections, effectively giving power to third parties and no longer Republicans and Democrats as a result. This would give a leverage for the Republicans to topple Hammond's chance as he was now clearly winning out the primaries and is now becoming the selected Democrat candidate for the final election that is due on November 2032.
*Military
**Venezuela: We still indirectly support Guyana by any means in this war against Venezuela.
*Research
**Martian Manned Mission: According to the records made by Zalgos which was sent back to home to be revealed by the rest of the Federation and deciphered to make deal of the Martian Theory itself, they seem to 'miss Mars' but they claim that there was something coming ahead when the five men picked for the duty to land on Mars and analyse every aspect even when they began to approach Mars.  By March 2032, they are almost close to Mars, they were about to approach the atmosphere, but so far they are around 792,011 kilometres (492,132 miles) away from the Martian atmosphere and they were indeed orbiting around Mars. All tests related to the Zalgo, composition of Mars and checks of the surface if there's something else that no-one had seen before were being made to the planet first over the next two months before landing on Mars as scheduled on June 2032. They are also expected to have the Zalgos dropped off on Mars. It seems that the endemics refer to the humans as proven by their frequent sayings 
*Economy: Debates of creating bunkers were made at the cost of the economy for the purpose of the Zalgo threat that might be inbound. Some companies from the US also began drilling oil on Iceland at a lower price.
*Diplomacy
**Korea: YOLO.
**United Nations: We must hold an emergency UNSC meeting against Korea after they've done multiple actions that seem to become deranged and abnormal at first but normalised to the point where they need to be dealt with.
====Iceland====
*Government: A republic with the Alþingi as our legislature.
**Demographics: 372k people 
**Ethnicities:
***92.15% Icelandic
***3.60% Polish
***4.25% other
*Military
**Icelandic Land Corps: 2000 soldiers, 5 artillery
**Icelandic Coast Goard:
***3 x Patrol vessels
***1 x Fixed wing aircraft
***3 x Helicopters
***2 x Patrol/survey boat
***250 x Officers and men
*Economy
**GDP: 23 billion US$, 61,8k US$ per capita
**Mainly from tourism, fishing, alumnium producing, and stuff
**Oil drilling and selling oil drilling permits to other nations
*Diplomacy:
**Korea: We have come to a conclusion that we will not sell oil permits at any price to you, and, as a fair warning, if you still try to send ships inside our EEZ and is caught, we will prosecute you to Den Haag.
*Events
**Valkyrie Protocol: With fears of Zalgo, the Alþingi has passed the bill to activate the Valkyrie Protocol. Underground shelters are being built at Reykjavik, Akureyri, Kópavogur and Keflavík, employing numerous Icelandic and foreign builders; and will only be used should a Zalgo infection is imminent.
====Korean Federation====
* Government
** Coup d’etat : After a recent coup, the government has been replaced with a more socialist leadership.
** Economy First Program : The new government has re-organized the economic system. The new government shall focus on the economy.
** Anti-China Propaganda : The government has posted propaganda about those dirty Chinese.
** Anti-American Propaganda : The government has also posted propaganda about the USA because of the threat of sanctions.
** Asian Cooperation : To rely less on other huge nations in the West, the government has decided to cooperate with other fellow Asian nations.
* Economy
** Economy First Program : The economic growth of Korea grows stagnant. Inflation rates rise a bit.
** Tax Reform : The government has reformed a tax to better suit the people. Taxes for basic goods have decreased by 5%. Taxes for sweets have increased by 2.4%. Taxes for automobiles have increased by 1%.
* Military
** Preparation for War : The government has decided to invade China. This will commence at 2032 Q4. The military will start mobilizing all necessary units.
** Military Boost Program : The military has ordered 450 K3 tanks, 25,000 grenade launchers, 200 K21 IFVs, 250 K9 SPGs, and 120 MLRS.
* Diplomacy
** China : Prepare
** Iceland : We will give you anything for the oil.
** USA : Lol
===2032 Q2===
Riots in Venezuela devolve into a full-blown revolution. The government now has to deal with both the rebels and the Brazilians. Brazilian forces are noted to fight alongside Venezuelan rebels, however their support is now more based on logistics and supplies rather than direct military intervention as most of the fighting is in the northern cities.
China is intent on lifting sanctions on the now socialist Korean state for their change in ideology, but are still wary of the recent Chinese propaganda, thus mobilizing the military to Manchuria.
No one wants to cooperate with Korea. Period. Unless they take a less aggressive stance towards literally everything, other nations will maintain their positions.
Exponential increase in Zalgo cases.
Berlin, Lima, Mexico City, Jerusalem, New Dehli and Denver are placed into lockdown after reports of an outbreak, followed by panic and chaos.
Radio silence from Moscow, while Cape Town grounds all flights coming in and out of the nation.
Washington D.C. is fortified by regional security details, as are most other capitals.
There are no transmissions of any sort from Central Africa, Eastern Indonesia and Central America.
China authorises the use of military force to control the outbreaks in Shanghai and Xi'an.
The last thing seen in Paris is a live broadcast from inside the Notre Dame Cathedral, where the doors are barricaded and any entrances sealed. "Nous ne savons pas ce qu'ils sont, mais ils ont transformé la ville de lumière en ténèbres. Les démons sont venus, et nous sommes impuissants. L'armée est là, mais nous ne savons pas ce qui leur est arrivé. Sauvez-nous."
In the light of recent events, the Chinese government decides to co-operate with the Foundation, and sends detailed reports on their findings while in ownership of the microsatellite. It is definitely made of advanced technology, and is very old. About 4.2 billion years old to be exact.
Nothing is different on Mars from the last time humans were there.
====United States of America====
*Government
**Extended State of Emergency: A state of emergency was declared on April 2032 as a new updated map was available. This led to extreme panic and a nationwide state of emergency being declared within the United States, giving Marco Rubio more power, along with the government across the nation, while calls of a public shutdown were made in multiple states in the southern part of the United States. However that also gave the chance for the media to take in such panic due to state of emergency being declared, which the government forbids to further exhibit any such panic in the south and that the ZCP and the government will intervene if they try to get into the situation.
**Shutdown: Parts of the United States' effective control over the southern region had started to shut down and letting martial law and curfew beginning to take place vigorously. The ZCP is also secretly taking part of this martial law disguised as soldiers as they were and have made vigorous attempts to reduce panic as these sightings get even worse. Strangely the Korean Cold War had subsided entirely after about roughly two years since the espionage crisis had begun after this shutdown took place, with the US no longer interested in it.
**2032 Elections in Peril: The public was given the message that the state of emergency 'will be temporary' and the election will continue on but in very controlled situations. However scepticism whether the 2032 elections will be carried on is uncertain with Senator Hammond believing that the government is now keeping Marco Rubio in power for three more consecutive terms as a result and believing that an old order that doesn't ignore the plight of Korea will be coming to ordinary people's lives.
*Military
**Intervention: With the ZCP struggling in the southern part of the United States, especially with Denver having a huge number of Zalgos, it seems that their efficiency had already peaked at this very moment of history.
*Economy: With a nationwide state of emergency declared in the United States, the economy itself finds itself to be destabilising once again, becoming the second economic crisis in the 2030s alone. Many pray that the US would eventually recover eventually once the crisis that is quite behind the bars had ceased to exist but when, no-one knows.
*Research
**Manned Martian Mission: The landing on Martian soil has being commenced. It was a successful touchdown. The Zalgos are now being released in the process by the orders of behalf of NASA and the ZCP while the key five astronauts are being currently keeping a very close eye on their changes or any change in their mind. At the same time, all soil samples, atmospheric conditions and excavation of an area large as about  to see if there's any fossilised microbes and life that might prove the Martian Theory as these Zalgos claim they were saying "for Mars".
*Diplomacy: ((Sorry, I've started to lose interest on this, but I hope this would end sooner, please.))
**China: We ask for the satellite to be brought down to the Federation's research just like Brazil as asked for it. We don't have enough time for this and probably never will and if they don't bring it down, the whole world is about to end as we know it and that they would greatly contribute to the help. Just let Brazil do the job, okay? Do it.
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**New data about Zalgo outbreaks is compiled, and areas affected are mapped. For this reason, Elicont Protocol is activated in several states (check military tab). The federal government is prepared to be moved from Brasília to Fernando de Noronha if the city is compromised.
**Chaos spreads across Rio de Janeiro, Manaus, Taubaté and several other cities due to the sharp increase of Zalgo cases, but the media is forbidden to show how bad the situation really is.
*Military:
**War in Venezuela: With the venezuelan government at the brink of collapsing, a final offensive into Caracas is made. Along with Special Forces operatives, government buildings all across the northern coast are stormed and politicians are arrested by force. A resistance leader is put in charge temporarily and is forced to sign a cease fire. Once the venezuelan army stops to resist, the brazilian troops finish the occupation of the country. The war ends.
**At least two thirds of the troops involved in Venezuela are recalled and do not take part on the occupation. Instead, they remain mobilized and execute the Elicont Protocol.
**Elicont Protocol:
***The states of Acre, Amazonas, Roraima, Rondônia, Pará, Mato Grosso and Rio de Janeiro are put in lockdown under Martial Law. Grounded flights and army roadblocks cut off the affected regions from the rest of the country.
***Quarantine zones are stabilished at state capitals and regions around southern Minas Gerais, eastern São Paulo and Rio's countryside. Inside them, people are told to stay indoors and soldiers take the streets and are authorized to kill any suspected Zalgo instance. Neighborhoods must be checked weekly by armed police forces, and only included in the Quarantine Zone if totally clean. Citzens are instructed on how to spot Zalgos and are encouraged to kill them on sight with their legally owned guns.
***Several military operations in the Amazon and Southeast Brazil aim to eliminate large Zalgo pockets. Airstrikes, incendiary bombs and high explosives are used in extreme cases, despite collateral damage. Street-to-street cleaning operations begin in Rio de Janeiro, although slow.
*Economy:
**Rio de Janeiro suffers from a deep economic collapse due to the lockdown. Grain exports also decline sharply.
*Diplomacy:
**Brazilian troops keep Venezuela under occupation for around a month, while our diplomats organize new elections to replace the older government.
**We try to contact our embassies across Central America to know what the hell is happening there, and maybe plan a rescue mission.
*Zalgo Combat and Research (ICEZ):
**The ICEZ HQ in the Amazon recieves more reinforcements, and requirements to get into the complex become more rigid as Zalgo cases in the area increase. An emergency relocation to Fernando de Noronha is planned.
**Our scientists keep analyzing the reactive compounds, trying to find out their structure, what they are or any other extra information. Vocalizations are still under study. Each team recieves $2.2M.
**Researchers join army squads in cleaning missions to study how Zalgos behave when on the loose, so they develop more effective defense techniques based on their behavior patterns.
**ICEZ suggests again to China and the Foundation to bring the Moon object to Earth, so we have a closer look. Our scientists believe there is a very advanced laser there, which could be reverse engineered and used to pulverize the Zalgos just like what happened in Rio and NYC.
====Iceland====
*Government: A republic with the Alþingi as our legislature.
**Demographics: 374k people 
**Ethnicities:
***92.15% Icelandic
***3.62% Polish
***4.23% other
*Military
**Icelandic Land Corps: 2200 soldiers, 5 artillery, 1 PL-02 tank
**Icelandic Coast Goard:
***3 x Patrol vessels
***1 x Fixed wing aircraft
***3 x Helicopters
***2 x Patrol/survey boat
***270 x Officers and men
*Economy
**GDP: 23 billion US$, 61,8k US$ per capita
**Mainly from tourism, fishing, alumnium producing, and stuff
**Oil drilling and selling oil drilling permits to other nations, namely Brazil and United States.
*Diplomacy:
**United States: We would like to request the sharing of blueprints for the AC-130, in exchange we will supply you with aluminum.
*Events
**Valkyrie Protocol: With fears of Zalgo, the Alþingi has passed the bill to activate the Valkyrie Protocol. Underground shelters progress:
***Reykjavik: 8%, 1 of 10
***Akureyri: 12%, 1 of 3
***Kópavogur: 16%, 1 of 2
***Keflavík: 14%, 1 of 2
====Socialist Federation of Korea====
* Government 
* Welcoming China: The new government has stopped the propaganda about the Chinese. We welcome them as both nations are socialist.
* Government Reforms : The government has enacted some reforms. Reforms in the economy, government, and the military. The government decides to intervene in the economy, still promoting private ownership. All companies that are failing will be owned by the government. The government still allows voting and rights. State-owned insurance companies will now fund the people. Education shall be free for the people. Drug use is banned. Protests are still allowed but need to be limited. The military will now be the Armed Forces of the Socialist Federation.
* Internet Censorship : The government has censored some parts of the internet such as anti-government blogs, pornography, and etc. 
* Proposal for the AMEO : We propose to Asian states to create the Asian Military and Economic Organization. 
* Economy
** State Intervention : All failing companies will now be state-owned. New state-owned companies emerge as well such as Korean Oil, Federal Korean Airlines, Korean Telecom, Korean Electric Company, and many more.
* Military
*Cancellation of Mobilization : To have better ties with China, the high command has cancelled the mobilization of forces.
* Self-Reliance Program : The military will now produce its own weapons as part of the Self-Reliance Program. All weapon designs will be original or be derived from another weapon, but not a copy. The military will produce its own vehicles, aircraft, and ships.
* Military Boost Program : The military has ordered 350 K3 tanks, 15 K9 SPGs, 200 K21 AFVs, and 20 MLRS.
* Local Weapons : As part of the SRP, the military has now made prototypes for new weaponry. A new rifle, the K4 Bullpup Rifle, will be tested and be the standard-issure weapon in the future. A new sniper rifle, the K5 Sniper Rifle, new grenade launcher, K1 AGL, new carbine, K1A2 Carbine, new assault rifle, K3 AR, new tank, the K4 Jaguar, new MLRS, K50 MLRS, new fighter, the F-1 Fighter, new bomber, B-1 Bomber, and many more will be made in the future.
*Diplomacy
* USA : Welp.
* China : We wish to have better diplomatic ties. We wish to have a FTA. Would you like to create the AMEO?
* Iceland : So be it.
* Japan and Taiwan : We wish to still have normal relations.
===2032 Q3===
Canada closes its international borders, an action replicated in other nations free from infection such as the Nordic nations, Thailand, Singapore and the Central Asian countries.
Infection and outbreaks are reported in more towns and cities worldwide. There is a noticable abscense of Zalgo sightings in locations with high altitude and extreme climate.
The European Union executes Operation High Castle, where safety blockades are constructed in strategic locations to try and limit the extent of infection. This includes the Pyrenean Mountain Range, the Rhineland, the Balkans, the Alps, Scotland and a blockade running through Poland and Ukraine.
Military force is present in most capitals to counter the outbreak, with nations in combat maintaining communications for maximum effectiveness.
Within the Foundation, several theories are thrown into the light concerning the sudden outbreaks, including the theory of infection via aerial transmission. The dust may have contributed to the outbreak, perhaps the advent of trade lanes contributed further, followed by the Zalgo disease undergoing zoonotic shift and subsequent transmission.
China launches a mission to bring the microsatellite to Earth. It is successful, with the retrieval pod landing in Tibet. It is retrieved and is being prepared to be shipped to Brazil. Further reports sent from China also indicate a similarity in compounds identified in the Zalgo blood and dust samples. They also suggest the effects of the "Zalgo Frequency" as it is called, can be replicated on the dust, but at a different amplitude.
Research conducted on Mars confirms the prescense of life, albeit having been dead for billions of years. 4.2 billion years to be exact. The reports gathered by the team on Mars seems to confirm the Mars Theory.
In summary, the Foundation knows how to kill Zalgos from the inside, how to get rid of the Zalgo dust that may or may not be contributing to further outbreaks, and that the Zalgos most likely came from Mars. The question is, what is going to be done about the current situation?
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**The states of São Paulo and Minas Gerais are included in the Elicont Protocol emergency state. The city of São Paulo and its metropolitan area, home of over 20 million people, is isolated and turned into a Quarantine Zone. People are told to stay at home and watch the news. If Zalgos break into the city, at least half of the population will be evacuated to several different cities inside the state or to Paraná, while the other half will be kept inside heavily defended quarantines.
**In Rio de Janeiro and south Minas Gerais, people are evacuated north (mostly to Belo Horizonte, Vitória and Uberlândia). Soldiers in roadblocks quickly examine the people and only allow healthy ones to leave the lockdown areas. This causes huge traffic jams, but it's a better option than letting the infected out.
**Northwestern Brazil is completely isolated from the rest of the country. While cities are turned into quarantine zones, the countryside still suffers from Zalgo infestation. Weapons and manuals are shipped to farms and small towns so they defend themselves against the Zalgo.
**Rio de Janeiro and the Vale do Paraíba region are classified as a "Dead Zone". Although military operations still take place, the area is totally isolated and nobody is allowed in or out due to extremely high Zalgo presence.
*Military:
**We end the occupation of Venezuela. However, we also rearm their army and keep operating inside both brazilian and venezuelan Amazon to locate and eliminate Zalgo pockets. Belém and Campo Grande are heavily militarized.
**The army heavily militarizes Santos, São Paulo metro area and Campinas. Thousands of troops entrench north of it forming a defensive line. The same happens in southern Minas Gerais. A second line is created in the Paraná-São Paulo border and Minas Gerais-Bahia border, as a backup.
**Despite still having healthy people living there, Rio de Janeiro and other Dead Zone cities are constantly bombed with Napalm and shelled with artillery.
**Areas with lower presence of Zalgo are also occupied. Locals are instructed on how to spot Zalgos and help army squads to eliminate them.
*Economy:
**With international trade declining, we focus our industry to produce military equipment to keep our troops supplied.
*Diplomacy:
**All airports are closed for international and some national flights to avoid spreading the infection and to serve the evacuations and Air Force.
**We fail to contact our embassies in Central America. For this reason, we prepare and send a Special Forces team to Panama City to rescue them and see what is happening.
*Zalgo Combat and Research (ICEZ):
**An ICEZ HQ is opened in Fernando de Noronha and is prepared to recieve the Moon object. We expect to reverse engineer the object and create a weapon against the Zalgo. (Full transference to this base is expected to happen in three months.)
**We keep trying to find a pathogen within the reactive compounts found in Zalgo cells. We keep analyzing said compounds to find anything new.
**Scientists test the dust to see if wind would be enough to carry it for long distances and spread the infection. It's also tested in healthy volunteers to see if it can cause an infection. Air, fresh water and seawater samples are taken from Rio and analyzed after Zalgo traces.
**It's noted the abscence of Zalgo in high altitudes and extreme climates. Several instances, in different stages of infection, are exposed to temperatures ranging from 45°C to -40°C and to low air pressure. We want to see if they die or if the infection is slowed down by these conditions.
**Since Zalgos stopped talking by themselves, we try to induce talks ourselves. Our researchers stay alone in rooms with instances that talked previously and attempt communication with them. The main topics involve their martian origin, previously mentioned stars, the Emperor and any other information to fill the blanks. The interviewers are instructed to pressure them for answers, but not too much. We're aware they may not talk at first, so talks must be tried at least twice a day everyday until they speak.
====United States of America====
*Government
**Shut down everything: All borders and airports are closed by now and that every city is fully quarantined.
**Government evacuates to Alaska: The US President Marco Rubio leaves Washington DC on October 2032. The elections were now being cancelled with all members of the Senate, the Hosue of Representatives and the Cabinet being fled as well but are to undergo quarantine. Martial law was publicly declared but is almost totally managed by the ZCP and not the military (the military does have some degree of control but the ZCP knows what they're doing). NASA operations are moved to Alaska as well, in which were mainly makeshift camps which help them to communicate with their Martian manned expedition back and forth to give more details. The ZCP base in Alaska set up three years ago also becomes very active all of a sudden as well due to the heavy influx of ZCP officials, researchers and personnel coming from mainland United States, mainly only to research if the Zalgo don't survive well in very cold climate.
*Military
**Martial Law: Martial law has being fully declared in most cities afflicted by the Zalgo outbreak. The ZCP has almost all absolute power to keep Zalgos at most cities at bay and doing what they can to evacuate the healthy through heavy checks but are forced to be in full quarantine for six months and not escape or otherwise be shot. they will be evacuated to mountainous areas like the Appalachians and the Rocky Mountains, only the government will flee to Alaska in this case unless they're government and ZCP officials/personnel.
*Economy
**Economic Collapse: The economy fully collapses to the point where the stock market will never recover but self-effiency was quickly starting to rise within America after years of struggle since the Zalgo threat began to appear. This allowed local towns and settlements to become more independent as a result but still subject to be part of the United States in long term.
*Research
**Could Zalgo not survive on mountains?: As the full government had secretly evacuated to Alaska, the ZCP are designated with a goal to send caged Zalgos sealed in perfect conditions to be sent over to the cold tundra region of Alaska, although as summer does emerge at that time, they want to see by winter if they would suffer to their deaths that might be similar to the catastrophe happening 4.2 billion years ago.
**Manned Martian Mission: The mission will continue indefinitely regardless of how much food and water is stored in there. A makeshift colony will be made in the process and would send almost all data that they might find on Mars, almost all purely based on how Zalgos would react to Mars itself (since they released them into the atmosphere itself exposed, testing if something is similar to Earth's highest mountains and extreme areas like Greenland and Antarctica) and analysing if life inside Mars is lethal to humans. Thus all life will be quarantined into one very distant area while the colony itself will remain distant and far from these microorganisms.
*Diplomacy
==== Iceland ====
* Government: A republic with the Alþingi as our legislature.
** Demographics: 377k people 
** Ethnicities:
*** 92.19% Icelandic
*** 3.62% Polish
*** 4.19% other
* Military
** Icelandic Land Corps: 3400 soldiers, 5 artillery, 1 PL-02 tank
** Icelandic Coast Goard:
*** 3 x Patrol vessels
*** 1 x Fixed wing aircraft
*** 3 x Helicopters
*** 2 x Patrol/survey boat
*** 270 x Officers and men
* Economy
** GDP: 23 billion US$, 61,8k US$ per capita
** Mainly from tourism, fishing, alumnium producing, and stuff
** Oil drilling and selling oil drilling permits to other nations, namely Brazil and United States.
* Diplomacy:
**
* Events
** Valkyrie Protocol: With fears of Zalgo, the Alþingi has passed the bill to activate the Valkyrie Protocol. Underground shelters progress:
*** Reykjavik: 32%, 1 of 10
*** Akureyri: 47%, 1 of 3
*** Kópavogur: 50%, 1 of 2
*** Keflavík: 43%, 1 of 2
===2032 Q4===
Most nations have switched to a defensive stance in accordance to the Zalgo threat. Most European bases are now commanded from the Alps.
Operation High Castle has succeeded in preventing the Zalgo from spreading further up north, with reports coming in from St. Petersburg that winter has defended Russia once more, implying the survival of the Russian government.
NATO-led airstrikes are coordinated from various fleets in the North Atlantic, targeting areas with high Zalgo prescense.
China releases a proto-vaccine to their military to try and prevent further infections. It is not completely effective, but it has proven to be at least 3% successful in preventing the "turning" of bitten people into Zalgos.
The microsatellite is now in Brazilian hands.
Researchers have identified a something most anomalous. The contaminants in Zalgo blood aren't actually useless. They serve as a system of some sort, resulting in the entire Zalgo instance being able to be regarded as a pathogen in its own sense. However, researchers have not found anything that would resemble the functions of the major components of a standard cell.
Samples of the Zalgo dust in the Rio Quarantine Zone correlate to those found in Shanghai, Manila, Darwin and Jeju, implying that the dust indeed spread across the world via air currents.
Air and water have been confirmed to be viable vectors for the movement of the Zalgo dust.
Tests confirm that humans exposed to the Zalgo dust eventually develop signs of infection.
Zalgos placed in extreme conditions have all died after varying amounts of time. It is noted that right before the instances die, a massive purge occurs, resulting in the expulsion of [REDACTED], [DATA EXPUNGED], [REDACTED], black fluid and blood from the Zalgo instance. After declared clinically dead, corpses checked for contaminants ar found to be clean. No instance has survived what has been come to be known as a "Purge".
None of the Zalgos placed under containment speak, despite staff efforts. Only one audio log was recorded, and as follows. "Our time has come. Our race will return. We rise from the ashes. The endemics. Have served their purpose well."
American tests on Zalgo resilience end up with the Zalgos being discovered under similar conditions as those being tested by the Brazilian ICEZ. All have undergone a "Purge" and are deceased.
The Zalgo instances sent to Mars are not observed to have undergone any changes. Those outside the pressurized cabins and lacking an oxygen supply are noted to have undergone a "Purge" as well, due to the nature of Mars' atmosphere. Microbial life found on Mars has been determined to be non-lethal to humans, nor do they carry the contaminants found in Zalgo instances.
====United States of America====
*Government
**Marco Rubio was elected as President again at this stage. Nothing important is announced but the remaining Senators and Representatives that fled out of mainland United States have confirmed this.
**Alaska: Alaska is being slowly becoming a military base and fortress should Zalgos ever penetrate the temporary winter that is setting in on 2032. The government and all research operations will be held there, while the Martian base set up by NASA and the ZCP will continue as long they are alive and well by establishing farms.
*Military: The military secretly became a branch of the ZCP in a sudden move. Now their main job is to kill every single Zalgo on sight approaching towards Canada or those that had suspected on sightings. Bombers are also deployed to bombard areas that are heavily infested with this threat.
*Economy: The economy collapsed with only self-sustaining methods being the highest priority. No-one cares about trade at this point.
*Research
**Martian Base Operations: All Zalgos are being expelled out into the natural Martian atmosphere after similar observations happened on Alaska for instance.
**Theoretical Second Lander: The industry of Alaska was not made for a second lander and we don't have access to Cape Canaveral now. It seems that a theoretical second lander for Mars may be far-fetched by now and that the Martian base would be all that remains of the US influence that might expand over many years. Thus all of the five crew pledged allegiance to the US government with a purpose to keep the old order running for few decades. Inbreeding is also unusually encouraged since there are also about almost a half of females, but effects of this are yet to observe but this was restricted so far due to presence of Zalgos.
**The Purge: It seems that these Zalgos are undergoing a purge indeed which might be a second and alternative option to wipe them out temporarily, which is why the US government had effectively fled to the northern fringe region of Alaska. They could potentially survive for about few years at this climate but due to the lack of better efficient farming technique and a small-scale makeshift hydroponic farm that won't feed the hundred thousands of incoming refugees, the Purge is only the way to keep them off and guns to slow down their advance into the remains of the US government.
**Sharks: Four years ago, there were unusual events of sharks being aggressively appearing out of nowhere as the Zalgo events were being made. After shark culling was heavily used, the ZCP began to revisit the topic of these unusual activities and see if they have already changed already after about four years since these sightings were recorded and if they were a hoax or even Zalgos themselves at some degree.
*Diplomacy
====Federative Republic of Brazil====
*Government:
**High authorities are evacuated from the mainland and govern from Fernando de Noronha. The island's airport is closed for non-military-or-research porpouses, and the Navy takes care of its security.
**Thanks to internet, situation inside quarantine zones and overran places is well known. It is noted that regions in Rio and Manaus are descending into anarchy, with local militias forming to defend against Zalgos or attempt an escape from the lockdown areas. Some militias contribute with the military, but some engage in firefights since food, water and medicine do not enter these zones for around nine months. Civilians accuse the military of bombing them for association with hostile militias.
*Military:
**Deployed soldiers are warned about militias raiding military camps for supplies, and they're authorized to execute suspects without trial.
**The military crosses the borders of Colombia to try to save it, even without authorization from the colombian government. A large force is mobilized for the invasion, including our carrier and submarines, and they try to estabilish a stable supply line connecting Brazil to Bogota and Panama City. They have orders to kill on sight anything suspicious.
**Paratroopers are dropped in the Panama Canal and, along with air support from our aircraft carrier, try to clear the canal so militaries can use it.
**Using thermite in warfare is a war crime, but nevertheless large thermite bombs are built and tested in infected areas, since Zalgos are supposed to purge under extreme heat. They aim to set whole neighborhoods or forests on fire to force Zalgos to undergo purging. If it works, the tactic will be employed widely.
*Economy:
**A strong recession begins, so policies are taken to keep up our military and research while sacrificing the population.
*Diplomacy:
**We propose the creation of an united south american force to combat the Zalgos in the continent.
*Zalgo Research and Combat:
**The theory stating that Zalgos are actually a system of all contaminants working together recieves wide support. The components are separated in structural similarity groups and injected separatedly in both tissue samples and living volunteers. We want to know if they have specific functions, like organs in an organism, or if the disease will develop as usual.
**With extreme care, the Moon object is analyzed on the outside and then engineers try to open it or disassemble it, so we learn how it is built and what is inside.
**Staff tries different tactics to talk to Zalgos: According to audio logs, instances show human-like emotions like guilt ("I'm so sorry. So so sorry", subject 53), saudade ("I have to say, I missed Mars", subject M-04), familiar bonding ("I have lost my family", subject 27) but most importantly, empathy ("My sincere condolences", subject 48).
***For this reason, staff attemps communication in a provoking and aggressive way, by showing them the violent destruction through purging, Zalgos exploding through lab pulverizing and verbal provocation (with a good dose of bluffing) about their lost families in the vaccum, the deaths on Mars and ridicularizing their attempts to take over Earth, saying humans are winning. Interrogation techniques of psychological pressure are adapted and used. Instances that showed more sensitive emotions, like Subject 53 who was apologizing for their actions, are priorized.
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===2033 Q1===
The Zalgo are noted to grow further in numbers, whereas thousands are infected and,
at current moment, are effectively lost forever. 
Front lines have reached a stable position in northern Europe, Manchuria, Honshu, Patagonia, the Suez Canal and Arabia.
After days of negotiations, China has agreed to provide air support to major front lines in the region, as to ensure the containment of the spread of the Zalgo.
All Zalgos exposed to the natural Martian atmosphere have undergone purges and declared clinically dead.
There are no reports of infection outside humans in recent times, and as such the ZCP has no leads on what may be zoonotic transfer.
Tests by the ICEZ confirm that most of the structural similarity groups do not affect a healthy human being, save for 2 samples that inherent cause infection.
Panamanian forces near the Panama Canal region assist Brazilian paratroopers in securing the Panama Canal with substantial success, fending off Zalgos from the North Bank.
The United South American Defense Force proposed by Brazil is supported by several nations in the region, followed by its formation to combat the Zalgos.
Zalgos under testing by the ICEZ for speech do not provide ant reaction whatsoever. They seem to be in a trance, unresponsive to the outside world. While these subjects still do experience Purges when exposed to hostile conditions, there is no recorded response.
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